allow-update option not supported in bind 9 ?

Mark_Andrews at isc.org Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Mon Feb 4 22:16:17 UTC 2002


> Hi,
> 
> The man pages say that the option "allow-update is supported in bind 9, 
>   but if you run " named-checkconf" it tells you that it isn't supported 
> in a slave zone ( or altogether ). docs didn't help either.
> 
> This was a nice feature in BIND 8 for security purposes.  Is it at all 
> supported in BIND 9 or does there exist an alternate ?

	Slaves forward updates they don't accept them.  See
	allow-update-forwarding in the Administator Reference Manual
	(doc/arm).  Please note there are security considerations.
	
	Mark

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