On Saturday 24 January 2004 15:21, Patrick Nelson wrote: > FC1 > bind-chroot-9.2.2.P3-9 > bind-utils-9.2.2.P3-9 > bind-9.2.2.P3-9 > redhat-config-bind-2.0.0-18 > Everything up to date with Yum > > This is the same on the master (newmaster) and the slave (newslave) > systems. The newmaster is working great. I setup the newslave > exactly like the newmaster except for the entries in named.conf > that designate a zone a slave to newmaster. > > If I point the named.conf slave entry to one of my old named > servers (oldmaster) the newslave works great as the secondary dns. > However if I point the newslave to the newmaster I get the > following error: > > <date> <sys> named[15137]: zone test.com/IN: refresh: failure > trying master <local ip of newmaster>#53: timed out > > I can't seem to figure out why the newmaster will not allow a > connection for the newslave. Can anyone point me to anything I can > try? Off the cuff ... Do you have a firewall in the path; master, slave, or in-between? Both 53/udp an 53/tcp will need to be open for transfers to work. Regards, Mike Klinke