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:
- 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
- Connect to the slave DNS server via SSH;
- Adjust permissions as follows:
# chown named.named /var/named/