Greetings, Has anyone experienced this error while doing and nsupdate to a Suse10 dns server. I also get time out errors when my windows clients try and update dns via dhcp. in my rndc.key file I have created a new key with rndc-confgen -k metsi -a as suggested earlier today. My /etc/sysconfig/named is set to include /etc/rndc.key and I have turned off my firewall. my zones files are in /var/lib/named/master/ They are owned by named dig fqnd returns proper values for my current systems as does dig -x <ip-addr> ping fqdn works returns the IP correctly, OK! ping <ip-addr> works and returns the FQDN, OK! So dns is working properly, in my opinion. Its just the zone updates and keys that are a problem. I have enabled allow-transfer and allow-updates in named.conf Here is the error I get when running nsupdate: #nsupdate -y metsi:XXXXXXX

update add test.metsi.gov.za 7200 A 172.150.0.3 send

Communication with server failed: Time out

Does anyone have clues as to where I can start looking, this server must only allow updates from the localnets. and dhcp. (Will fight DHCP later.. 1st get zone updates to work) :) Thanks Chadley