How can you verify TSIG is working b/t Master & Slave servers

I have setup and configured TSIG on our Bind 9. DNS servers. How can you verify/test that it is working correctly? Thanks in advance for any assistance provided. Mark ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman

Unable to perform nslookup of local domains

We are having a problem doing an nslookup locally from our BIND DNS Servers (Master & Secondary) for our own domains. However we can run nslookup on other domains (ie yahoo, google) with no problems. Even if we stop iptables we still get the same error. We see no errors when BIND starts. Below is

Initial Setup of Master/Slave Bind servers

I have setup our BIND Master & Slave servers with appropriate configuration in the named.conf. For some reason the zone files are not getting replicated from the Master to the slave. Do I have to initially create each of the zone files on the slave so that updates are replicated? Thanks in adv