Need secure_zone, where did it go (bind 8)

Jim Reid jim at mpn.cp.philips.com
Fri Oct 29 22:06:44 UTC 1999


>>>>> "Barry" == Barry Margolin <barmar at bbnplanet.com> writes:

    Barry> Reid <jim at mpn.cp.philips.com> wrote:
    >> warp 8.] You can get similar functionality from BIND8's
    >> allow-query and allow-transfer clauses in named.conf's
    >> options{} statement.

    Barry> One significant difference between secure_zone and
    Barry> allow-query is that secure_zone was copied in zone
    Barry> transfers.  Thus, the master server administrator could
    Barry> declare a zone to be secure, and this would propagate to
    Barry> the slave servers automatically.

True, but this would only work if the slave servers were also running
a version of BIND4 that had SECURE_ZONE support compiled in to them.
Then again, allow-query only works if all the name servers for a zone
support that too and configure it into their named.conf files.


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