[comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains] problem in transferring root zones

HATHAWA@gecrdvm1.crd.ge.com (Barry Hathaway) (05/03/91)

I'm having a problem getting a root zone to transfer correctly among several
name servers on an internal class A network.  The zone will transfer; however,
all MX records never get transferred.  The MX records are all wildcards
(i.e.  *.AT, *.EDU, etc.) for high level domains which point to a gateway
machine.  The same zone file will work correctly on the primary server, but
will not get correctly tranferred.  The software is Berkeley bind 4.8.3
running under Ultrix 4.1.   Has anybody seen this problem?  Any ideas?

barrett@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA (Alan P Barrett) (05/08/91)

In article <91123.085834HATHAWA@gecrdvm1.crd.ge.com>,
HATHAWA@gecrdvm1.crd.ge.com (Barry Hathaway) writes:
> I'm having a problem getting a root zone to transfer correctly among several
> name servers on an internal class A network.  The zone will transfer; however,
> all MX records never get transferred.  The MX records are all wildcards
> (i.e.  *.AT, *.EDU, etc.) for high level domains which point to a gateway
> machine.  The same zone file will work correctly on the primary server, but
> will not get correctly tranferred.  The software is Berkeley bind 4.8.3
> running under Ultrix 4.1.   Has anybody seen this problem?  Any ideas?

I don't know about 4.8.3, but I had to do some hacking on Berkeley
bind 4.8.1 before it would transfer root zones.  Shout if you want the
diffs.

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Alan Barrett, Dept. of Electronic Eng., Univ. of Natal, Durban, South Africa
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