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DNS Zone Transfers Incomplete


tkloppel

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Hey,

First, my setup. We're running a Windows Server 2008 system as a PDC in a lab of about 40 PCs and 20 users. We have 1 forward zone, and three reverse zones (1 IPv4 & 2 IPv6.) As a backup, we have two other Server 2008 boxes running as secondary DNS servers. The two secondary servers also run DHCP and WDS. I have set zone transfers on the PDC to allow to any server.

The problem is that every so often (randomly) DNS zone transfers are incomplete. I may have 50 records in my zone, but only 6 or 10 will actually transfer to the secondary servers. I can usually get a complete transfer by restarting the DNS service on the secondary servers followed by a manual "transfer from master"/refresh. This is happening intermittently with both forward and reverse zones.

I believe the problem is on the PDC, but I am stumped at this point.

Any ideas?

Thanks

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dexter.inside, thanks. The network is quite small, and there is not a great deal of traffic, so I do not believe that to be an issue.

I checked the logs and I doubt they are worth posting. There are no errors/warnings except for early when I was still building the server. All of the "information" events are event 6001 which are notifications of zone transfers, and one event id 4 which states background loading of the zones completed.

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I am having the same issues with zone incomplete transfers using 2008 Server DNS. I am at a loss on this one so I am opening a ticket with MS to see if this is some known bug. If anyone gets information onj this one before I do please share with the rest of us.

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I am having the same issues with zone incomplete transfers using 2008 Server DNS. I am at a loss on this one so I am opening a ticket with MS to see if this is some known bug. If anyone gets information onj this one before I do please share with the rest of us.

I am as stuck in the same bureaucratic mess as you are

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