Using Stub directive and getting ERR/TO

[Merton Campbell Crockett]

On Tue, 22 Jun 1999 Mark_Andrews at isc.org wrote:

> 
> > In article <1C477F269113D311B81000A0C94BAA9501785D at SERVER01>,
> > Neophytou, Andreas <aneophytou at gresham-computing.com> wrote:
> > >I didn't think stub required to do 
> > >a complete zone transfer but just got relevant info regarding the local
> > >domain...
> > 
> > In BIND 4, stub performs a zone transfer and then ignores everything but
> > the NS records.  I think this has been changed in 8.2 to just query for the
> > NS records.  So either upgrade or get the primary to open up access.
> > 
> 	
> 	Stub zones have always performed individual queries.  I wrote the
> 	code.  There was a period when stub zones were broken after the
> 	introduction of IXFR support.  I can't remember if this brokeness
> 	was in a REL version or not.

I was just looking at some sendmail weirdness that I tried to resolve by
using a "stub zone".  According to the daemon.log, BIND 8.2REL is using
named-xfer to transfer the "stub zone" instead of building the zone from
queries.   It would have been nice if it would have built the "stub" from
queries as I would have been able to get the correct information from the
only server, NIC.NEAR.NET, that had the correct information for the zone
with problems.

Merton Campbell Crockett
GTE Government Systems