> It certainly doesn't look as if anyone is home. many thanks for all the replies !
as it was, I fixed it this morning: the secondary was moved to another IP, and, my ipchains didn't allow that IP, after adding the IP to both named.conf and ipchains, I can see zone transfers in log, and, get 'authorative' dig replies. and, the lesson for me is, must remember to check external dns. (and, I finally kind of learned 'dig' in preference to 'nslookup-deprecated' that I kind of knew in the past) thanks again for all the help, Howard, Chris, James & David -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
