Bind 9 zone transfers from MS DNS

I setup a slave zone on my SuSE 9 Linux box, and trying to transfer records
from a Microsoft DNS server which is running Windows 2000 SP4.

When trying to transfer, the MS server says the transfer completed
succesfully, but the Linux box has the following error message... "dumping
master file: /var/lib/named/tmp-XXXXPbXbQ2: open: permission denied" and
"transfer of 'domain.com/IN' from serverip#53: failed while receiving
responses: permission denied

Anyone have an idea? Thanks for your help.

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news wrote:
> I setup a slave zone on my SuSE 9 Linux box, and trying to transfer records
> from a Microsoft DNS server which is running Windows 2000 SP4.
>
> When trying to transfer, the MS server says the transfer completed
> succesfully, but the Linux box has the following error message... "dumping
> master file: /var/lib/named/tmp-XXXXPbXbQ2: open: permission denied" and
> "transfer of 'domain.com/IN' from serverip#53: failed while receiving
> responses: permission denied
>
> Anyone have an idea? Thanks for your help.

The directory where the zone files is stored is not writable by the BIND
process.

In /etc/named.conf, there will be a line like
directory "/var/named";

and a line like:
file "domain.com";
or
file "slaves/domain.com";

In the first case, /var/named has to be writable by the user that BIND
runs as (could be the named user). In the second case, /var/named/slaves
has to be writable by the user that BIND runs as.

Have a poke around to see what your setup is expecting.

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news wrote:
> I setup a slave zone on my SuSE 9 Linux box, and trying to transfer records
> from a Microsoft DNS server which is running Windows 2000 SP4.
>
> When trying to transfer, the MS server says the transfer completed
> succesfully, but the Linux box has the following error message... "dumping
> master file: /var/lib/named/tmp-XXXXPbXbQ2: open: permission denied" and
> "transfer of 'domain.com/IN' from serverip#53: failed while receiving
> responses: permission denied
>
> Anyone have an idea? Thanks for your help.
>
> Please only reply to this post, and not the e-mail addy.
>
>
>

the problem is exactly what it says, "permission denied".

change the owner of the /var/lib/named to named:named or whatever you
run named as.