Re: problem transferring zones to win2k slave

Dustin Hoff <dustin+bind-users@dustinhoff.com> wrote:

>i'm running bind 9.2.3 on solaris 8, and recently several win2k
>slave servers started logging event ID 7500 errors with the (unhelpful)
>description "The DNS server failed to process a packet from <master>.
>The packet was discarded."
>
>bind doesn't show any problems and only logs "AXFR-style IXFR
>started" for each slave, so i tried the following:
>
> - setting "provide-ixfr no" for one of the slaves: (the zone in
> question is manually updated on the bind server so there are no
> IXFRs anyway). this didn't fix the problem.
>
> -setting "transfer-format one-answer" for one of the slaves: (even
> though the windows servers are running SP3 and so should not have
> a problem with AXFRs >16KB) but that didn't help and bind logged
> "AXFR started" and then "send: socket is not connected."
>
>the zone isn't too big (file size is 33381), and while i suspect
>that something changed on the windows boxes, the admin says that
>everything is the same. does anyone have any ideas on this?

Have you turned on full logging on the W2k side? What does the dns.log
show? And what build of dns.exe are you running?
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