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@@ -188,3 +188,14 @@ 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, like "John\032Doe\213s\032Computer", +since such names have been known to cause Windows 2000 slaves to +incorrectly reject the zone. |