Event ID 6524 with DNS Incremental Zone Transfer Problem (260021)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
  • Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
  • Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
This article was previously published under Q260021

SYMPTOMS

Incremental zone transfers that are requested by Windows 2000-based secondary servers from a Bind primary may not succeed. When this occurs, event ID 6524 is recorded in the DNS event log.

Sample DNS event ID 6524 record:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: DNS
Event Category: None
Event ID: 6524
Date: 4/18/2000
Time: 10:55:48 AM
User: N/A
Computer: MYCOMPUTER
Description: Invalid response from master DNS server at 192.168.0.10 during attempted zone transfer of zone test.microsoft.com. Check The DNS server at 192.168.0.10 and insure that it is authoritative for this zone. This can be done by viewing or updating the list of authoritative servers for the zone. When using the DNS console, select zone test.microsoft.com Properties at server 192.168.0.10 and click the Name Servers tab. If needed, you can add or update this server in the list there. As an alternative solution, you could also modify settings in the Zone Transfer tab to allow transfer of the zone to this and other DNS servers.

CAUSE

The Bind server is not sending back a response of type "Incremental zone transfer." This causes the transfer not to succeed because the response type must match the query for zone transfers.

MORE INFORMATION

For additional information about the response format for incremental zone transfers, see RFC 1995.
Modification Type:MajorLast Reviewed:9/22/2003
Keywords:kbDNS kberrmsg kbprb KB260021
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