VIEWs and Zone Transfers

Mark.Andrews at nominum.com Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Sun Feb 11 22:12:00 UTC 2001


> 
> Mark.Andrews at nominum.com wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > > Mark.Andrews at nominum.com wrote:
> > > >
> > > >         Use transfer-source to specify different IP addresses on the
> > > >         slave that fall within the different views.
> > >
> > > It is still unclear to me how NOTIFY might be made to work in this
> > > scenario.
> > 
> >         see notify-source
> 
> I see. I think I should have a recent version of the ARM at home. :-)
> So just to make sure I understand: If I want a slave server to transfer
> both views of a zone from the master then I need two IPs on the master
> and two IPs on the slave. The "notify-source" will take care of
> refreshing the right view of the zone on the slave and the
> "transfer-source" will take care of pulling the right view of the zone
> from the master. Actually that's not so much different from the
> traditional split DNS. It's not that I want to criticize. I don't have a
> problem with that. I only want to know what's feasible.

	That's it.  We put forward a protocol extension to allow this
	to be done in-band.

> 
> > 
> > > Which version of the zone will be reloaded upon NOTIFY?
> > > Also: Does transfer-source implicitly change the query-source of the
> > > slave's SOA query?
> > > I seem to remember so, but I'm not sure.
> > >
> > > Could you shed some light on this?
> > >
> > > >
> > > > > I have two views on my four BIND 9.1.0 servers working properly now. 
>  Eac
> > > h
> > > > > view references an internal version and an external version of each z
> one
> > > > > file.  However, I can only transfer the internal version automaticall
> y.
> > > > > A previous message on this list had mentioned using AXFER, but I can'
> t fi
> > > nd
> > > > > any documentation on how to use/set it up.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks to all who responded to my earlier messages.  Your suggestions
>  wer
> > > e a
> > > > > great help.  :)
> > > > >
> > > > >
> ...
> 
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