.us domain

[James Raftery]

On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 09:31:54AM -0400, Jennifer wrote:
> I've been thinking about applying for a .us domain delegation.  The one
> thing I'm not sure I understand is it says "You must set your host computers
> to accept zone transfers from the US Domain Registry."  Does this mean that
> my server would be a slave?

No; the sentance is confusingly worded though. It means the US registry
wants your servers to accept zone transfer requests from their servers.
i.e. if their servers send your servers a zone transfer request, your
servers accept and process the request.

> If my .conf file has:
> zone "somewhere.us"{
>         type master;
>         file "somewhere.us";
> };
> What would I change?

Add:

 allow-transfer { 1.2.3.4; 5.6.7.8; }; // Replace IP numbers with US
                                       // registry servers' IPs.

into the zone{} clause.

james
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