Zone transfers on a split-view Bind DNS system

To start, try verifying that a zone transfer works.

On the slave, issue dig @master your-domain. axfr

What versions of BIND and what OS?

Each view have a separate set of zones, so one view will not answer for zones specified only in another view, thus the behavior you have is somewhat expected. But, once all your WAN zones are properly delegated to your server from the parent zone, intranet view will follow the delegation chain, come back to your own server, and query itself for that zone.

I guess you problem is either - you testing your server, and did not delegate the zones yet, or BIND's source of your queries falls into lanClients ACL and thus creates infinite loop.

The trick is to use query-source 1.2.3.4;, where 1.2.3.4 is some external interface IP which does not fall into lanClients ACL.

Another option is to add forward only; and forwarders 1.2.3.4; to your intranet view - this way delegation chain does not matter, and this will work also behind NAT.

In any case, queries made by bind itself have to be excluded from the lanClients view.