Zone transfers and EOF Problem.

[Barry Margolin]

In article <f9RH3.242$4X3.4382 at ord-read.news.verio.net>,
Bill Webb <wwebb at adni.net> wrote:
>
>>If there are any delegation records that point to the slave server, other
>>servers may ask it rather than the master server.  If it can't transfer the
>>zone, it will give out incorrect results, which they'll believe.
>
>
>Barry, thank you for the quick answer.  Do you have any thoughts as to what
>type of EOF errors might exist that would prohibit the slave from doing the
>zone transfer?

I think you may get "premature EOF" if the zone transfer doesn't include an
SOA record at the end.  A proper zone transfer should start with the zone's
SOA record and end with an identical SOA record.

I'm not sure what would cause BIND to fail to include the SOA record at the
end, though.

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