.us domain

[Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]

> 
> 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 computer
> s
> > 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
> -- 
> James Raftery (JBR54)
>   "It's somewhere in the Red Hat district"  --  A network engineer's
>    freudian slip when talking about Amsterdam's nightlife at RIPE 38.
> 

	You only need to add them if you were already blocking them
	which is not evident above.

	Mark
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