Hi Anand, thanks for the quick response now the transfer works?? The changes i made: dns1: pattern: ??????? name: "dns2" ??????? notify: 45.xx.yy.195 at 5353 sec_key ??????? provide-xfr: 45.xx.yy.195 sec_key dns2: pattern: ??????? name: "dns1" ??????? allow-notify: 45.xx.yy.194 sec_key ??????? request-xfr: AXFR 45.xx.yy.194 at 5353 sec_key Another small thing was the fact that the command nsd-control write <zone> always says "ok" but nothing was written! Turns out that the you have? to change the permissions to user "nsd"?;-) Thanks again everything is working fine now. Oliver -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.nlnetlabs.nl/pipermail/nsd-users/attachments/20220901/206b1d55/attachment.htm>