Secondary NS Problem

Then everything is as it should. The mirroring is done automatically between primary and secondary dns in ispconfig by selecting "Is mirror of server" in ispconfig under Server > services. This automatically disables the secondary in the list because if a client would add a record to the secondary manually, the duplicate record would cause bind to fail as the record is already mirrored automatically.

 

The secondary ns is mirroring automatically every record that you add to the primary server. Please see step 7 of this tutorial:

http://www.howtoforge.com/installin...ase-servers-on-debian-5.0-with-ispconfig-3-p3

 

You made this before you added the dns record in ns1?

Then there is a problem with the connection between the ispconfig installations. You did the install of the servers exactly as described in that tutorial by editing the /etc/hosts files on all servers first before you installed the software and you used the hostnames as instructed for the database connections and not IP addresses? IP's wont work for that.

 

Please see here for a tool to resync such a setup:

http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showpost.php?p=248916&postcount=2

 

The system processes all steps in order. So if you created sec zones and then deleted them, it will create the sec zones on the master, they get created on the slave as well and then they get deleted afterwards. So thats no problem, it indicates that the sync system is working.