hi, with all of your questions/guidance, I made some progress.
definitely some PEBKAC. made mapping adjustment/correction in my NAT src mapping table. checking dig soa rpz.spamhaus.org @199.168.90.52 ; <<>> DiG 9.9.2-rpz+rl.028.23-P1 <<>> soa rpz.spamhaus.org @199.168.90.52 ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 30074 ;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;rpz.spamhaus.org. IN SOA ;; ANSWER SECTION: rpz.spamhaus.org. 300 IN SOA need.to.know.only. hostmaster.spamhaus.org. 1362706462 120 120 432000 60 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: rpz.spamhaus.org. 300 IN NS LOCALHOST. ;; Query time: 84 msec ;; SERVER: 199.168.90.52#53(199.168.90.52) ;; WHEN: Thu Mar 7 17:40:16 2013 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 132 and, dig +vc soa rpz.spamhaus.org @199.168.90.52 +trace ; <<>> DiG 9.9.2-rpz+rl.028.23-P1 <<>> +vc soa rpz.spamhaus.org @199.168.90.52 +trace ;; global options: +cmd ;; Received 28 bytes from 199.168.90.52#53(199.168.90.52) in 85 ms now rndc retransfer drop.rpz.spamhaus.org generates in logs @ /var/log/messages 07-Mar-2013 17:36:19.459 general: info: received control channel command 'retransfer drop.rpz.spamhaus.org' 07-Mar-2013 17:36:19.544 general: info: zone drop.rpz.spamhaus.org/IN/internal: Transfer started. 07-Mar-2013 17:36:20.518 general: info: zone drop.rpz.spamhaus.org/IN/internal: transferred serial 1362249322 07-Mar-2013 17:40:36.105 general: info: zone drop.rpz.spamhaus.org/IN/internal: serial number (1362249321) received from master 199.168.90.52#53 < ours (1362249322) 07-Mar-2013 17:40:36.190 general: info: zone drop.rpz.spamhaus.org/IN/internal: serial number (1362249321) received from master 199.168.90.53#53 < ours (1362249322) 07-Mar-2013 17:44:38.188 general: info: zone drop.rpz.spamhaus.org/IN/internal: serial number (1362249321) received from master 199.168.90.52#53 < ours (1362249322) 07-Mar-2013 17:44:38.273 general: info: zone drop.rpz.spamhaus.org/IN/internal: serial number (1362249321) received from master 199.168.90.53#53 < ours (1362249322) @ bind xfer log ... 07-Mar-2013 17:36:19.627 xfer-in: info: transfer of 'drop.rpz.spamhaus.org/IN/internal' from 199.168.90.51#53: connected using x.x.x.144#46189 07-Mar-2013 17:36:20.518 xfer-in: info: transfer of 'drop.rpz.spamhaus.org/IN/internal' from 199.168.90.51#53: Transfer completed: 17 messages, 18019 records, 350529 bytes, 0.890 secs (393852 bytes/sec) ... So, I *think* it's working as it should now. One minor issue: I'm running in a chroot. My chroot ROOT dir is "/data/chroot/named" So with a named.conf zone stanza of: zone "drop.rpz.spamhaus.org" IN { type slave; file "/namedb/slave/drop.rpz.spamhaus.org.zone"; masters { rpz4_spamhaus; }; allow-query { localhost; }; allow-transfer { rpz4_spamhaus; }; request-ixfr yes; notify no; }; I end up with the zone xfer *file* in ls -al /data/chroot/named/namedb/slave total 1.3M drwxr-xr-x 2 named named 4.0K Mar 7 17:36 ./ drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4.0K Mar 7 17:34 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 named named 1.3M Mar 7 17:49 drop.rpz.spamhaus.org.zone The problem is that that chroot gets torn down on bind stop/restart. Prior to bind start the chroot is assembled from sources in: /usr/local/etc/named copied/mapped to the chroot ROOT /data/chroot/named I.e., iiuc, I'll lose that xfer'd zone data at any time I stop/restart the bind daemon, requiring a complete re-Axfr, rather than just the next IXFR. Do I need to manually copy the RPZ locally-stored zone data prior to teardown? Or is there some appropriate config to save/write the zone data to a non-chroot dir at xfr ? -pg _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users