AXFR probs on cable modem

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Thu Apr 4 23:37:57 UTC 2002


In article <a8imbh$6ik at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Dougal Campbell <dougal at gunters.org> wrote:
>Zone transfers usually happen in a "pull" fashion, with the secondary
>servers querying the master for updates, right? Is it possible to
>force a "push" scenario, where the master is in control of sending
>updates out to the slaves?

No.

You can use the NOTIFY protocol, so that the master tells the slaves to
check for an update immediately (rather than waiting for the Refresh
timer), but they still have to use an AXFR query to pull it down.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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