Zone transfer for root zones (".") fails with "failed while receiving responses: end of file" error.

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Issue

  • Zone transfer for root (".") zone fails.
  • Following errors appear at slave name server:
transfer of './IN' from 10.x.x.x#53: failed while receiving responses: end of file
transfer of './IN' from 10.x.x.x#53: end of transfer

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • bind-9.3.6-4.P1.el5_5.3

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