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Zones are not transferred to slave DNS server configured via Slave DNS Manager in Plesk

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Renan Poss Moreira
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kb: technical Plesk Onyx for Linux ABT: Group B

Applicable to:

  • Plesk Onyx for Linux

Symptoms

  • Slave DNS server is configured with Slave DNS Manager extensions according to the documentation;
  • In Plesk >  Extensions > Slave DNS Manager Slave DNS server is shown as up and running:
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  • Signals to refresh zones are received, but zones are not transferred. In /var/log/messages ; only the following entries appear after clicking Extensions > Slave DNS Manager > Resync:

    # tail -fn0 /var/log/messages
    named[3082]: received control channel command 'refresh example.com IN '
    named[3082]: received control channel command 'addzone example.com IN { type slave; file "example.com"; masters { 203.0.113.2; }; };'

Cause

Insufficient default permissions for BIND directory.

Resolution

  1. Connect to the slave DNS server via SSH;
  2. Adjust permissions as follows:

    # chown named.named /var/named/ 

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    Xyonet Hosting

    /var/named does not exist on my slave. Named is running as the user “bind.”

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