Re: Zone Transfers - Forcing

From: Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP] (admin_at_nospam.WFTX.US)
Date: 08/05/04 

Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 14:22:31 -0500

In news:%23pIsqTxeEHA.692@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl,
HoTShoT <@> wrote their comments
Then Kevin replied below:
> Is there a way to initiate zone transfers manually from
> the master DNS server in Windows? We don't have full
> access to the slave except through a control panel. Let
> me tell you why I ask.
>
> We have a sever that is allowed to use our providers two
> DNS servers as slave. Basically you go into their control
> panel add a domain, select slave and enter your DNS
> servers IP address. We are running a Windows 2003 server
> with our own nameservers, we also added their nameservers
> on each DNS entry and have zone transferred enabled and
> only to servers listed on the nameservers tab. So
> basically we have four nameservers entered ours and
> theirs.
>
> We added about 140 slave entries, but in the server
> events log it only showed two of them that transferred. I
> have deleted and re-added some just to check, but still
> nothing.
>
> Any ideas as to what is going on?

On the Zone transfer button there is a notify button, click the button and
set it to notify the IP addresses of the secondarys. Then if you want to
initiate a zone transfer from the master increment the zone serial and it
will notify the sendary servers to do a zone transfer, it could take 30 min
or so for it to happen but usually the secondary will connect immediately. 

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Best regards,
Kevin D4 Dad Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]
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