On 15 Jul 2013, at 12:49, Grace Ingabire wrote: > The issue is now resolved, my master was not configured properly!
There's something else: LTD.RW seems not to be delegated. The problem seems to be masked from you because this zone and its parent are both hosted on ns{1,2}.ricta.org.rw. From further away, a query for NS records for LTD.RW sometimes returns a list of NS records, sometimes NXDOMAIN, according to which of the parent zone (RW) name servers is queried for the delegation (zone-cut) records, as shown below. I expect you'll need to add NS records for LTD in the RW zone file. dhcp-c101a88b(niall)8: dig +trace ltd.rw ns ; <<>> DiG 9.6-ESV-R4-P3 <<>> +trace ltd.rw ns ;; global options: +cmd . 232678 IN NS e.root-servers.net. . 232678 IN NS k.root-servers.net. . 232678 IN NS f.root-servers.net. . 232678 IN NS a.root-servers.net. . 232678 IN NS m.root-servers.net. . 232678 IN NS g.root-servers.net. . 232678 IN NS j.root-servers.net. . 232678 IN NS h.root-servers.net. . 232678 IN NS d.root-servers.net. . 232678 IN NS i.root-servers.net. . 232678 IN NS l.root-servers.net. . 232678 IN NS b.root-servers.net. . 232678 IN NS c.root-servers.net. ;; Received 512 bytes from 137.43.116.19#53(137.43.116.19) in 7 ms rw. 172800 IN NS ns1.ricta.org.rw. rw. 172800 IN NS fork.sth.dnsnode.net. rw. 172800 IN NS sns-pb.isc.org. rw. 172800 IN NS ns-rw.afrinic.net. ;; Received 290 bytes from 2001:dc3::35#53(m.root-servers.net) in 19 ms rw. 86400 IN SOA ns1.ricta.org.rw. info.ricta.org.rw. 2013071545 86400 7200 604800 86400 ;; Received 79 bytes from 2001:500:2e::1#53(sns-pb.isc.org) in 35 ms dhcp-c101a88b(niall)8: dig +trace ltd.rw ns ; <<>> DiG 9.6-ESV-R4-P3 <<>> +trace ltd.rw ns ;; global options: +cmd . 232677 IN NS m.root-servers.net. . 232677 IN NS f.root-servers.net. . 232677 IN NS a.root-servers.net. . 232677 IN NS l.root-servers.net. . 232677 IN NS i.root-servers.net. . 232677 IN NS h.root-servers.net. . 232677 IN NS k.root-servers.net. . 232677 IN NS c.root-servers.net. . 232677 IN NS g.root-servers.net. . 232677 IN NS j.root-servers.net. . 232677 IN NS d.root-servers.net. . 232677 IN NS e.root-servers.net. . 232677 IN NS b.root-servers.net. ;; Received 512 bytes from 137.43.116.19#53(137.43.116.19) in 1 ms rw. 172800 IN NS ns1.ricta.org.rw. rw. 172800 IN NS fork.sth.dnsnode.net. rw. 172800 IN NS ns-rw.afrinic.net. rw. 172800 IN NS sns-pb.isc.org. ;; Received 290 bytes from 2001:500:3::42#53(l.root-servers.net) in 3 ms ltd.rw. 86400 IN NS ns2.ricta.org.rw. ltd.rw. 86400 IN NS ns1.ricta.org.rw. ;; Received 102 bytes from 41.74.173.250#53(ns1.ricta.org.rw) in 202 ms dhcp-c101a88b(niall)8: /Niall _______________________________________________ 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