[TriLUG] Bind permission errors

[Douglas Ward]

Is this done on a zone by zone basis or for the entire server?

On 8/5/05, John Berninger <johnw at berningeronline.net> wrote:
> 
> 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><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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