Need to transfer a zone from BIND 4.x to Win2k standard primary DNS server

[Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]

> 
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 07:28:23PM +0000, Taylor wrote:
> > 
> > What does the AIX adminstrator have to do on his end to do a zone
> > transfer (named.data and named.rev) to our recently configured Win2k
> > primary standard DNS server?
> > 
> > Can one do a "pull" of a zone? In other words, could I, as the Win2k
> > admin, pull in the records of the BIND zone file(s) from our primary
> > DNS?
> > 
> > thank s
> > Jeff
> 
> That IS how zones are transferred.  The slave server does a request for
> a zone transfer.  The AIX administrator can not do a push.
> 
> However, he must list your server as a slave server, or (a) you will
> never receive NOTIFYs of changes to the zone [and so will only upodate
> when the zone expires],

	This is hogwash unless there are insane SOA timer values.  The
	server will just revert to using the old refesh/retry alogrithm.

	Mark
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