[TriLUG] Bind permission errors

[John Berninger]

On Fri, 05 Aug 2005, Douglas Ward wrote:

> Aug 5 05:35:52 ns2 named[5493]: transfer of
> 'nccumc.org/IN<http://nccumc.org/IN>'
> from 192.168.10.59#53: failed while receiving responses: permission denied

        This error message has "allow-transfer" written all over it -
check the named.conf file and make sure each of your zones allow zone
transfers to the secondary server via the allow-transfer directive.

> My bind servers are running bind version 9 (latest from urpmi) on Mandriva 
> LE 2005. I set up bind using webmin. All default installation options from 
> urpmi are in effect. Is there some setup step that I have missed? I have 
> googled the error several times and have the following questions:
> 
> 1) Should user named own named.conf and the domain.tld.hosts files?
> 2) Should all of the files mentioned be stored in /etc? Bind did this by 
> default.
> 3) Should I be worried about file level permissions at all or is there 
> something in the zone setup that I am missing?

        If file permissions were at issue, the primary server wouldn't
be responding to queries properly.


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