how to list ALL zones of my master server

[Jim Reid]

>>>>> "Fred" == Fred Viles <fv+abuse at nospam.epitools.com> writes:


First of all, please remove the nospam crap from your email
address. It doesn't stop spammers. [They have tools to delete this
nospam nonsense.] All you do is present an email address that can't be
replied to. This is very anti-social on a MAILING LIST.

    Fred> Actually it does (or can).  I'm thinking of the NOTIFY
    Fred> message.  In theory, a slave could treat a NOTIFY for an
    Fred> unknown domain coming from a trusted master as a signal to
    Fred> automatically add a new slave zone.

Ignoring the trust issue -- which is a hard problem to solve in itself
-- how do you propose the NOTIFY message would encode other information
such as who's allowed to send dynamic updates or do zone transfers or
where the slave server stores the zone file or....? And as for the DoS
possibilities...