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From: gary@cis.ucsc.edu (Gary Moro)
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Subject: named - xfer'd failed (SunOS 4.1)
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Date: 13 Aug 90 17:07:47 GMT
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I am trying to setup a secondary DNS server on a system running 4.1 but
I keep getting the following message:

Aug 13 hostname named[73]: reload of xfer'd zone DOMAIN.NAME failed

Here are some symptoms.  When I initially boot the machine "nslookup"
fails all lookups.  After removing hosts.bak and hosts.rev.bak and
sending -HUP to named everything starts working correctly.

Here's named.boot

;  boot file for secondary name server
;
sortlist 128.32.0.0 128.45.0.0 128.3.0.0 36.0.0.0 128.102.0.0 10.0.0.0

directory       /etc/namedb

; type    domain                source host/file                backup file

secondary DOMAIN.NAME           xxx.xxx.xxx.xx yyy.yyy.yyy.y    hosts.bak
cache     .                                                     root.cache
secondary 114.128.IN-ADDR.ARPA  xxx.xxx.xxx.xx yyy.yyy.yyy.y    hosts.rev.bak
primary   0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA  localhost.rev

*****************************************************************************

File resolv.conf contains "domain DOMAIN.NAME".

Yes, named-xfer does exist.

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root     staff       98304 Feb  7  1990 /usr/etc/in.named*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root     staff       40960 Feb  7  1990 /usr/etc/in.named-xfer*

Any ideas?

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