Microsoft KB Archive/297936

= DNS and BIND Zone Transfers May Not Work =

Article ID: 297936

Article Last Modified on 10/27/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 1
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 2
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server

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This article was previously published under Q297936



SYMPTOMS
Zone transfers between Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) version 9.x and a computer that is running Windows 2000 Domain Name System (DNS) server may not work.



CAUSE
This problem occurs because Windows 2000 DNS servers limit the acceptance of Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) zone transfer (AXFR) messages to a maximum of 16 kilobytes (KB). BIND version 9.x may send TCP AXFR messages that are greater than 16 KB.; therefore, the zone transfer does not work.



RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Windows 2000. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

260910 How to Obtain the Latest Windows 2000 Service Pack

The English-language version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:   Date       Time   Size         Size     File name -  5/29/2001  18:06  5.0.2195.36  324,368  Dns.exe



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was first corrected in Windows 2000 Service Pack 3.



MORE INFORMATION
For additional information about how to install Windows 2000 and Windows 2000 hotfixes at the same time, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

249149 Installing Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows 2000 Hotfixes

Additional query words: kbDirServices

Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbwin2000presp3fix kbqfe kbwin2000sp3fix kbdirservices kbhotfixserver KB297936

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