[Pdns-users] ZoneTransfers

Nicholas Williams williamsn at bondware.com
Tue Jul 29 21:56:40 UTC 2008


Can you please run the dig query you are performing and and copy and 
paste the entire results, top-to-bottom, into this email?

Nick

Jeffrey Hathaway wrote:
> I should also add that pDNS says there wasnt any problems.
>  
> - jeff
>
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 5:53 PM, Jeffrey Hathaway 
> <jahathaway at gmail.com <mailto:jahathaway at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Ok,
>      
>     Well then this brings up another problem.  A Bind server at my ISP
>     is trying to gather my zone files.  But it comes back in thier log
>     files as a bad response.  Doesn't give any more info but that. 
>     Just as a bad response.  we figures it would be because of the SOA
>     deal.  Any idea's?
>
>     On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 5:50 PM, Nicholas Williams
>     <williamsn at bondware.com <mailto:williamsn at bondware.com>> wrote:
>
>         Jeff,
>
>         I wondered about this at first, too. Then I discovered dig
>         always displays an SOA record at the top and at the bottom
>         when you perform a zone transfer. You can demonstrate this by
>         querying against a non-PowerDNS (BIND) server:
>
>         $ dig @dns1.nicholaswilliams.net
>         <http://dns1.nicholaswilliams.net/> nicholaswilliams.net
>         <http://nicholaswilliams.net/> AXFR
>
>         You'll see you also get SOA records at top and bottom. This is
>         completely normal behavior. :)
>
>         Nick
>
>         Jeffrey Hathaway wrote:
>>         Hello,
>>          
>>         I got a issue.  I got PowerDNs and am doing Zonetransfers to
>>         another server (my ISP).  However, when doing a zonetransfer,
>>         two SOA records are being Sent. A SOA record at the top and
>>         at the bottom.   to view this example,  do this in a terminal
>>          
>>         dig axfr @24.213.94.98 <http://24.213.94.98/>
>>         62.102.24.in-addr.arpa
>>          
>>          
>>         I cannot explain why 2 SOA Records are being presented with a
>>         zone dump.  Any idea;s?
>>          
>>         Jul 29 14:05:12 PowerDNS 2.9.21 (C) 2001-2006 PowerDNS.COM BV
>>         (Jul 10 2008, 06:20:43, gcc 4.1.2 20071124 (Red Hat
>>         4.1.2-42)) starting up
>>          
>>         - Jeff
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