force master and slave to sync

[bcardona]

i have a master and slave dns server that for some reason stopped syncing, until i figure out why, is there a command of a way I could force them to sync, their both older versions of suse 7.2 and 6.4

 

[GlenJohnson]

Go to ad sites and services, right click the the server you want to replicate and choose replicate now. You can also do this from the dns mmc console and do the same thing.

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[FaiTHLeSS]

I think hes using bind DNS server and not windows dns server.

 

[GlenJohnson]

DOH!

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[spydyr]

Restarting the named service always forces a transfer. But that probably won't work since transfers aren't normally working. Try turning on logging to help diagnose your problem. Add these lines to your named.conf file and restart named.


logging
{channel my_file {
file "/var/log/named.log";
severity debug;
print-time yes; };
category default {my_file;};
category xfer-out {my_file;};
category security {my_file;};
};

You'll need to create the named.log manually. Do this:

$ touch /var/log/named.log
$ chown named:named /var/log/named.log

Check the times on both servers. From my experience if the times aren't sync'd transfers will stop.

-Jason

 

[bcardona]

i did what you said, i checked the times and they were way off, i also add the logging script, I still get Err/TO getting serial# for "whatever.com", I also get Sent NOTIFY for "whatever.com IN SOA(is this correct in saying that sent notify means the master and slave are tranferring for that specific zone.