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[Joseph S D Yao]

On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 06:33:28AM +1000, Mark.Andrews at nominum.com wrote:
> > The exception is that under BIND 8, if you have child zones on the same
> > server as their parent zone, a transfer of the parent zone will bring
> > the child zones along with it.  Although this is often useful, I
> > believe that it is technically incorrect, and further believe that it
> > will be fixed in BIND 9.
> 
> 	BIND 8 merges the NS rrset from the child zone into the parent
> 	zone transfer.  It does *not* merge the full zone.  BIND 9 does
> 	not do any merging.
> 
> 	That being said the is the following bug that is fixed in BIND 8.2.3.
> 
>  990.   [bug]           we could loose track of a bottom of zone cut if the
>                         write buffer filled up at just the correct moment.

Thanks, Mark.  Sorry, my memory exaggerated the merge.  Still
recovering from a "vacation" with the kids [and a 4th of July in a
first aid station on the Mall].  ;-)

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