Having trouble setting up zone transfers with bind (axfr)

Xaox · Sep 30, 2009, 2:43 PM

I've been trying to use the dns-server package to use as a primary server for an internal domain. That part works fine, but I can't get zone transfers (axfr) to work so I can slave the zones on external bind DNS servers.

So far I have tried turning off the DNS forwarder and binding the DNS server address to the LAN interface. When I test it using this command:

dig @pfsensebox test.bogus AXFR

fails with:

;; communications error to 10.1.0.251#53: end of file

but this works:

dig @fssensebox test.bogus SOA

I get the exact same results if I try to bind the DNS server to 127.0.0.1 and port forward TCP 53 from the LAN to the loopback.

I've search the forums, but I have not run across anything on how to get this working. Any help would be appreciated.

hexa · Oct 15, 2009, 12:53 PM

I didn't read all of your post, but it seems you want to do something tinydns doesn't support:
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,19828.0.html
Welcome to pfsense. :-)

Xaox · Oct 20, 2009, 8:27 PM

I figured out how to fix pfSense and I posted in your thread:

http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,19828.msg102564.html#msg102564