[Pdns-users] Slave zone just won't refresh....

[Gary Shaver]

Before I pull much more hair out, I thought I'd toss this up to the list 
to see if anyone has experienced this in the past (or has better 
google-foo than I)

I'm slaving a zone from 208.78.69.112, I'm able to pull the zone 
manually using dig, but it does go a little slower than I would expect. 
  Pdns just times out.. over and over... Is there a way to increase the 
timeout? or is there something that I'm missing.
The zone itself does not appear to be malformed.. the nameserver I'm 
pulling from is just slow..

;; Query time: 5479 msec
;; SERVER: 208.78.69.112#53(208.78.69.112)
;; WHEN: Tue Jun  8 17:13:44 2010
;; XFR size: 27 records (messages 27, bytes 1748)

---- logs ----

Jun  8 16:53:10 ns1 pdns[1725]: Error trying to retrieve/refresh 
'oxxxxxxxm.com': Timeout waiting for answer from 208.78.69.112
Jun  8 16:54:11 ns1 pdns[1725]: Error trying to retrieve/refresh 
'oxxxxxxxm.com': Timeout waiting for answer from 208.78.69.112
Jun  8 16:55:12 ns1 pdns[1725]: Error trying to retrieve/refresh 
'oxxxxxxxm.com': Timeout waiting for answer from 208.78.69.112
Jun  8 16:56:13 ns1 pdns[1725]: Error trying to retrieve/refresh 
'oxxxxxxxm.com': Timeout waiting for answer from 208.78.69.112
Jun  8 16:57:14 ns1 pdns[1725]: Error trying to retrieve/refresh 
'oxxxxxxxm.com': Timeout waiting for answer from 208.78.69.112
Jun  8 16:58:15 ns1 pdns[1725]: Error trying to retrieve/refresh 
'oxxxxxxxm.com': Timeout waiting for answer from 208.78.69.112
Jun  8 16:59:16 ns1 pdns[1725]: Error trying to retrieve/refresh 
'oxxxxxxxm.com': Timeout waiting for answer from 208.78.69.112


another issue that I've run into was another slave zone.  This had pdns 
cycling every 2-3 seconds

Jun  7 00:48:44 ns1 pdns[10216]: Initiating transfer of 'axxxxxxxa.us' 
from remote '216.117.186.93'
Jun  7 00:48:45 ns1 pdns[10216]: AXFR started for 'axxxxxxxa.us', 
transaction started
Jun  7 00:48:45 ns1 pdns[10216]: Communicator thread died because of 
error: Failed to execute mysql_query, perhaps connection died? Err=1: 
You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds 
to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ''\\# 1007 
ad10090a0600000240002000000000800000
0040000000000000000000000000000000' at line 1
Jun  7 00:48:46 ns1 pdns[16017]: Our pdns instance exited with code 0
Jun  7 00:48:46 ns1 pdns[16017]: Respawning
Jun  7 00:48:47 ns1 pdns[10258]: Guardian is launching an instance

Simply removing the zone puts everything back in a happy state, so It's 
not a timeout issue. Are there any debugging options that can be turned 
on for the mysql backend?  I didn't find any referenced in the 
documentation and increasing the loglevel doesn't give me any additional 
information.

I've pulled down the zone and besides the laundry list of different 
record types, it looks fine.  I can sanitize it an post it if that would 
help.

The pdns version is the static .deb package from the main download page.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Gary

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