zone transfers

James Raftery james-bind-users at now.ie
Fri Jun 15 14:42:46 UTC 2001


On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 09:24:31AM -0500, Dykes Greg-FGD008 wrote:
> Are zone transfers limited to name servers? Considering using DNS for a
> private application and need to be able to "gather" zone data when a client
> application boots up. Can a DNS client request a zone transfer from a name
> server?

Absolutley. DiG has an 'axfr' query type. nslookup (*bleugh*) has an
'ls' command. Both of these request zone transfers.

The Perl Net::DNS module can make zone transfer requests, if Perl's your
kinda thing.

james
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