On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 23:52, M E Fieu wrote:
> > The windows server has to be configured to allow the zone transfer
> > request to come from the linux server address.
>
> I thought it should be windows servers has to allow zone transfer "to" the linux server address.
> As my purpose is to let Windows DNS to transfer zone record to Linux BIND
There is an incremental push mode where you tell the master to send
to the slave and the slave has to allow updates, or the traditional
zone transfer where the slave requests the whole thing and the master
has to permit it.
> Below is my /var/log/messages log for zone transfer, my linux BIND server IP is 172.16.1.250 and
> windows DNS server IP is 172.16.1.42. It prompts transfer of 'abc.com/IN' from 172.16.1.42#53:
> failed while receiving responses: REFUSED. I don't know why as I put the allow zone transfer
> property of my abc.com zone in Windows DNS server to "ANY". Why it still refused? Any idea?
>
> Aug 12 11:52:38 watcher named[5996]: transfer of 'abc.com/IN' from 172.16.1.42#53: failed while
> receiving responses: REFUSED
Everything looks right on the Linux side. You might find a reason in
the Windows event logs. There are some security options you may have to
disable or configure to match at both ends.
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Les Mikesell
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