tl;dr
Make sure you use your main box domain, e.g. box.mail dot com and not mail dot com when setting your primary domain for your secondary DNS.
For anyone wanting help with buddy DNS, once you’ve created an account, to enable zone transfer add this to the hostname in your mailinabox.
xfr:108.61.224.67 xfr:116.203.6.3 xfr:107.191.99.111 xfr:193.109.120.66 xfr:103.6.87.125 xfr:192.184.93.99 xfr:119.252.20.56 xfr:172.96.140.41 xfr:37.143.61.179 xfr:195.20.17.193 xfr:45.77.29.133 xfr:116.203.0.64 xfr:167.88.161.228 xfr:199.195.249.208 xfr:104.244.78.122
That’s all the IP4 ips with XFR. Then you need to use 3 name servers and append that to the beginning of the hostname.
Original post which helped me solve my problem in writing this
Hi, I’m trying to use buddydns. Some of the old guides aren’t accessible but the other posts got me this far.
I’ve set the hostname in “Using a secondary nameserver” section to,
xfr:108.61.224.67 xfr:116.203.6.3 xfr:107.191.99.111 xfr:193.109.120.66 xfr:103.6.87.125 xfr:192.184.93.99 xfr:119.252.20.56 xfr:172.96.140.41 xfr:37.143.61.179 xfr:195.20.17.193 xfr:45.77.29.133 xfr:116.203.0.64 xfr:167.88.161.228 xfr:199.195.249.208 xfr:104.244.78.122
That’s all the IP4 from buddydns prefixed with xfr: and spaces inbetween. I also added the buddy name servers I want to use, which are also in the nameservers for my registrar.
Now I’ve included my own IP at home (not above) and the IP for this site (xfr:50.31.162.95) any when I run dig +tcp axfr @SERVER_IP DOMAIN I get a transfer failed, SERVER_IP being the IP of my mailinabox and DOMAIN being its main domain e.g. name dot com and not box.name dot com. Similarly buddy dns reports AXFR queries Error,
I’ve rebooted the server.
And in writing this, the problem I made was name dot com and not box.name dot com! I needed to use the nameserver domain! box.name.com at buddydns and not name dot com. I just done the dig command and it worked. I’m posting this anyway in case someone else finds it useful.
PS: I can’t include links so I’ve taken them out, they were links to buddy dns docs.