Zone Transfer Q

[Rohan Gilchrist]

On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Trottier, Marc wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I would like configure my DNS server to disallow zone transfers from system
> other the peer DNS server that I participate with. How do I do so ?
> 
> thanks in advance
> 
> Marc
> mtrottie at nrcan.gc.ca

Marc,
I assume you are using BIND 8.x.

In your named.conf, for each zone, add the following:

allow-transfer { x.x.x.x; x.x.x.x; };

where x.x.x.x is the IP address of the name server you want to be able to perform a zone transfer with.

Regards,

Rohan