On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 06:18:07PM -0700, Michael Barrett wrote:
> Howdy, I'm trying to do zone transfers with large zones in bind
> 9.2.2 on FreeBSD 4.8. By large I mean that the zone is over 180
> megs large. My server is answering other zone transfers just
> fine- but on these large zones I see the following errors in
> syslog:
>
> Aug 29 18:11:09 feeds named[48753]: transfer of '<zone>/IN' from
> <hostip>#53: failed to connect: timed out
>
> Any idea what might be causing this? Is Bind 9 just not able to
> handle zone transfers of that size right now? Are there any
> special settings I need to set in the config? Thanks in advance
> for any help you might be able to give.
You probably shouldn't use zone transfers for such a large file even if
BIND had no problems with it. Even if you have a lot of changes, I'm
sure there isn't more than a small percentage of the total zone that
needs to be transferred each time. I'd look into using rsync or some
similar mechanism (replication of the database backend perhaps) to sync
only the changes, and save all kinds of time and bandwidth.
--
Nate
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