Thanks for the response. Forgot to mention there is no firewall between the subnets. I was able to successfully telnet to port 53 from the master to slave and from the slave to master. Also have tcpdump info
Here are my configs. Thanks! options { directory "/var/named"; pid-file "/var/named/data/named.pid"; statistics-file "/var/named/data/named.stats"; dump-file "/var/named/data/named.db"; allow-transfer {key test; }; notify yes; also-notify { 192.168.16.10 }; recursive-clients 10000; cleaning-interval 30; }; zone "." in { type hint; file "named.ca"; }; zone "cromwellconsultant.net" in { type master; file "example.net"; }; zone "6.168.192.in-addr.arpa" in { type master; file "6.168.192"; }; zone "16.168.192.in-addr.arpa" in { type master; file "16.168.192"; }; zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" in { type master; file "named.local"; }; zone "0.in-addr.arpa" IN { type master; file "named.zero"; options { directory "/var/named"; pid-file "/var/named/data/named.pid"; statistics-file "/var/named/data/named.stats"; dump-file "/var/named/data/named.db"; allow-transfer { none; }; notify no; recursive-clients 10000; cleaning-interval 30; }; zone "." in { type hint; file "named.ca"; }; zone "cromwellconsultant.net" in { type slave; masters {192.168.6.10; }; file "slaves/bak.cromwellconsultant.net"; }; zone "6.168.192.in-addr.arpa" in { type slave; masters {192.168.6.10; }; file "slaves/bak.192.168"; }; zone "16.168.192.in-addr.arpa" in { type slave; masters {192.168.6.10; }; file "slaves/bak.192.168"; }; zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" in { type master; file "named.local"; }; zone "0.in-addr.arpa" IN { type master; file "named.zero"; }; Here is the error messages again from the slave Sep 24 09:38:43 ns2 named[11967]: client 192.168.6.10#32839: received notify for zone 'cromwellconsultant.net' Sep 24 09:38:43 ns2 named[11967]: zone cromwellconsultant.net/IN: Transfer started. Sep 24 09:38:43 ns2 named[11967]: transfer of 'cromwellconsultant.net/ IN' from 192.168.6.10#53: connected using 192.168.16.10#50190 Sep 24 09:42:09 ns2 named[11967]: transfer of 'cromwellconsultant.net/ IN' from 192.168.6.10#53: failed while receiving responses: connection reset Sep 24 09:42:09 ns2 named[11967]: transfer of 'cromwellconsultant.net/ IN' from 192.168.6.10#53: end of transfer Here is some dump info from the slave 21:31:30.339532 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], proto: UDP (17), length: 57) ns2.cromwellconsultant.net.domain > ns1.cromwellconsultant.net.32839: 54589 notify* 0/0/0 (29) 21:31:30.339662 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], proto: UDP (17), length: 146) ns2.cromwellconsultant.net.32825 > ns1.cromwellconsultant.net.domain: 28457 [2au] SOA? berklee.net. (118) 21:31:30.340769 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 25023, offset 0, flags [DF], proto: TCP (6), length: 60) ns2.cromwellconsultant.net.50679 > ns1.cromwellconsultant.net.domain: S, cksum 0xb5c9 (correct), 402274578:402274578(0) win 5840 <mss 1460,sackOK,timestamp 3780532397 0,nop,wscale 7> 21:31:30.340942 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 25024, offset 0, flags [DF], proto: TCP (6), length: 52) ns2.cromwellconsultant.net.50679 > ns1.cromwellconsultant.net.domain: ., cksum 0x3939 (correct), ack 1631924298 win 46 <nop,nop,timestamp 3780532398 4251529972> 21:31:30.341123 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 25025, offset 0, flags [DF], proto: TCP (6), length: 54) ns2.cromwellconusultant.50679 > ns1.cromwellconsultant.net.domain: P, cksum 0x2a52 (incorrect (-> 0x388a), 0:2(2) ack 1 win 46 <nop,nop,timestamp 3780532398 4251529972> 21:31:30.542585 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 25026, offset 0, flags [DF], proto: TCP (6), length: 54) ns2.cromwellconsultant.net.50679 > ns1.cromwellconsultant.net.domain: P, cksum 0x2a52 (incorrect (-> 0x37c1), 0:2(2) ack 1 win 46 <nop,nop,timestamp 3780532599 4251529972> 21:31:30.944568 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 25027, offset 0, flags [DF], proto: TCP (6), length: 54) ns2.cromwellconsultant.net.50679 > ns1.cromwellconsultant.net.domain: P, cksum 0x2a52 (incorrect (-> 0x362f), 0:2(2) ack 1 win 46 <nop,nop,timestamp 3780533001 4251529972> 21:31:31.748550 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 25028, offset 0, flags [DF], proto: TCP (6), length: 54) ns2.cromwellconsultant.net.50679 > ns1.cromwellconsultant.net.domain: P, cksum 0x2a52 (incorrect (-> 0x330b), 0:2(2) ack 1 win 46 <nop,nop,timestamp 3780533805 4251529972> Many thanks On Sep 23, 2008, at 3:58 PM, Dawn Connelly wrote: > can you telnet on port 53 between the boxes? Most of the time when > I have seen a connection reset, it's a firewall in the middle. > Other possibility is that the source IP is getting NAT'd to a > different IP address by the time it hits the master server. Run a > tcpdump or snoop or whatever for your platform to see if the > traffic is actually making it from one box to the other in the way > that you expect. At least, that is where I would start. If you > don't see any traffic, look at what devices would be blocking or > changing it. > > What do the logs on the master server say? Can you send a scrubbed > named.conf so we can make sure that the zone transfers are set up > correctly? > > On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Wayne Cromwell > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > When I do a rndc reload of my zones, I'm getting the error messages > below on the slave. All seems in good order with my conf file on the > master and slave . I checked permissions and all is well. I restarted > named on my slave, but my slave dns still timeouts with the transfer. > Any help will greatly be appreciated. > > Thanks > > > client 192.168.6.10#32839: received notify for zone > 'cromwellconsultant.net' > Sep 23 10:49:05 ns2 named[25536]: zone cromwellconsultant.net/IN: > Transfer started. > Sep 23 10:49:05 ns2 named[25536]: transfer of 'cromwellconsultant.net/ > IN' from 192.168.6.10#53: connected using 192.168.6.10#47364 > transfer of 'cromwellconsultent.net/IN' from 192.168.6.10#53: failed > while receiving responses: connection reset > Sep 23 10:52:31 ns2 named[25536]: transfer of 'cromwellconsultant.net/ > IN' from 192.168.6.10#53: end of transfer > > > > > > -- > Google for President > YouTube for VP > in any year divisible by 4 >