AXFR and IXFR

Michael Voight mvoight at cisco.com
Wed Jun 9 15:52:05 UTC 1999


I was told by our development group that it wasn't working in 8.x, so I
would like to know when it does work. Our product can do IXFR to other
servers running it and I would like to test it with BIND systems running
IXFR.

Michael Voight

Stephen Anderson wrote:
> 
> Can anybody tell me if IXFR is working in any of the BIND releases?  The
> testing releases?  Thanks!
> 
>                                        Stephen Anderson
>                                      <stephena at HiWAAY.net>
> 
> On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Jeff Schreiber wrote:
> 
> > Tom-Erik Hestholm <tom.erik.hestholm at ark.no> writes:
> > >
> > >What does IXFR and AXFR mean in BIND 8.1 ?
> > >Does anybody have a document with all this abbreviations ?
> > >
> >
> >     AXFR - Zone transfers, IXFR - Incremental Zone Transfers.
> >
> >     Take a look at RFC 1034 and 1035 for info about AXFR and zone transfers.
> >     Take a look at RFC 1995 for details about Incremental Zone Transfers.
> >
> >                                             -Jeff
> >
> > --
> > Jeff Schreiber,            Process Software Corp.
> > schreiber at mx.process.com   http://www.process.com
> >       TCPware & MultiNet: Stronger than Ever
> >
> >



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