From 09e103cd36ecccd715f7eafad4369b38cefb2179 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andreas Gustafsson Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 01:52:20 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] added bind9->win2k zone transfer failure FAQ --- FAQ | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/FAQ b/FAQ index 498b3a54a5..4c66dc4229 100644 --- a/FAQ +++ b/FAQ @@ -188,3 +188,13 @@ depending on whether they were last received as answers or as glue. You can always look up the addresses with explicit queries like "dig a.root-servers.net A". + +Q: Zone transfers from my BIND 9 master to my Windows 2000 slave +fail. Why? + +A: This may be caused by a bug in the Windows 2000 DNS server where +DNS messages larger than 16K are not handled properly. This can be +worked around by setting the option "transfer-format one-answer;". +Also check whether your zone contains domain names with embedded +spaces or other special characters, since such names have been known +to cause Windows 2000 slaves to incorrectly reject the zone.