.us domain

Joseph S D Yao jsdy at cospo.osis.gov
Mon Jun 18 17:40:36 UTC 2001


On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 04:03:01PM +0100, James Raftery wrote:
> 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.

Note that her .conf file would have worked AS IS.  All you have done is
restrict any other IP addresses from doing a zone transfer.  Some
people like this; others consider it a waste of time.

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