zone transfer from slave

Nico Kadel-Garcia nkadel at verizon.net
Thu Aug 28 03:04:45 UTC 2003


SWong at wiley.com wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> We have just upgraded our BIND to 9.2.2, on Solaris 8, this server is
> primary for some domains and secondary for others.
> 
> I understand that slave servers can pull the zone via different means, such
> as depending on the expire interval, serial number, etc.  as well as
> removing the zone file on slave server.
> I have a few zone files that is located in a different location and I do
> not have access to.  How can I pull individual zone from slave without
> restarting the entire slave name server?  rndc is only executed on primary
> server, is this correct?

"dig -t axfr zonename slavename", if your slave is configured to allow 
the transfers. Or "scp root at slavename:/var/named/\* /tmp/." if it's 
running SSH.

What kind of slave is it?


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