Re: Secondary zone not loading from master

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Did you ever get an initial load of the zone?
If so then do not ignore my recommendation to
check the SERIAL NUMBER on the SOA records.
no

Secondary (current) Serial Number must be less than
Master (the update) Serial Number so if this is not
true then update the Master with a HIGHER number
(than Secondary has.)
The file hasn't been created yet so I don't think it has a serial

Did you check for the BUILT-IN firewalls?
no firewalls or filtering in effect.

If none of this works then try NSLookup from the
Secondary command line:

nslookup
(then specify the Master/primary server):
server IP.of.DNS.Master
(then list the zone -- which is essentially the same
as a download):
ls domain.com

If this works/fails you will know more about what is
happening.

If it fails, you can also prove that the client (Secondary)
can actually REACH the DNS server for even a simple
query.

Only problem with such proof is that most queries are
using UDP (port 53) and Zone Transfers use TCP (on
port 53 also.)

The nslookup query returned the appropriate srv records.

You can also try judicious use of DEBUG logging on
a Windows 2003 DNS Server from the MMC server
properties -- use both logging on secondary to log
from the secondary and the master.


I did turn this on and it really doesn't log that much. I'm looking in the dns log in the system32 directory. I assume that's the correct place. It sure doesn't through events into the event log.

Thanks for your help.

Andy Zirkel.
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