Force a Zone Transfer

[MacManifest]

Greetings,

I need to force a Zone transfer between my primary donain controller with my backup domain controller. I’m running OS X Server 10.4.8. I noticed last night that my secondary domain controller hasn’t talked to my main domain controller in weeks. I could copy the contents, from one server to the other, but I would rather do a zone transfer. Does anyone know any command line tricks or GUI tricks to do this?

Thanks.

[MacManifest]

I’m new to this, so I’m not familier the tools you described. Can I get more of a description on how to increment the zone and restart bind.

Thanks Again.

[MacManifest]

Thanks. I already ordered the book. I brought in a guy to help, but it only made matters worse. I had to restore from a backup. I love backups.
Warm Regards to the AFP548 crew.

[luke]

To force a zone transfer, issue the following command as root on the secondary server:

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rndc -p 54 retransfer mydomain.com
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where mydomain.com is the name of the zone you want to transfer. This doesn’t require you to restart BIND (downtime is bad).

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