1 Basic Fundamental question on Bind 8.2.5

Jim Herrick jim at herrick.net
Sat Jan 12 02:55:01 UTC 2002


Nope.

DNS is a pull type of service.  The master can send NOTIFY messages to its
slaves, but the slave still have to PULL a zone transfer.

Right?

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rakesh Shah" <srakesh28 at hotmail.com>
To: <bind-users at isc.org>
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 3:41 PM
Subject: 1 Basic Fundamental question on Bind 8.2.5


>
> Friends,
> I just want to clarify my understanding on Zone Transfer's ,
>
> Either the Master DNS server can push the zone data or Secondary DNS can
> pull from the master correct ?
>
> Can the Secondary server transfer the zone file to another secondary
server
> for the given zone ?
>
> I have 1 subdomain corp.rfc.com (it's all Internal) that is the Primary
> master and 2 secondary server's--> and 3rd  DNS server it just the
secondary
> for rfc.com so will the zone files of corp.rfc.com be transfered from one
of
> the secondary server to this 3rd DNS server or it will only have the
> Reference to the NS record of corp.rfc.com.
>
>
> Thank you in Advance.
>
> Sorry if this explanation is confusing.
>
>
>
> Rakesh Shah
>
>
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