I'm working on setting up host auto-discovery for Nagios using DNS records.
When I try to use dig axfr to do a zone transfer (dig axfr local.domain.com), however, I get the following output:
[jwestbury@nagiosv local]# dig AXFR local.domain.com
; <<>> DiG 9.8.2rc1-RedHat-9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.6 <<>> AXFR local.domain.com
;; global options: +cmd
; Transfer failed.
The DNS server I'm querying is not showing anything in its logs for this query. If I change the domain to a non-existent one, I do see an entry in the DNS Server logs in Event Viewer, so I know the queries are hitting the DNS server fine.
Is there something special I need to do in order to allow AXFR transfers from the Nagios machine? Or is there somewhere else I should be looking for logs on the Nagios machine to indicate what might have happened when I tried to perform the transfer?
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
Best Answer
You need to enable and allow Zone Transfers for the zone you want to transfer. You can configure this on the Zone Transfers tab of the zone's properties pages.