what will BIND do if we provide incorrect zone via AXFR?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <bjak47$2r2k$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
Matus UHLAR - fantomas  <uhlar at fantomas.sk> wrote:
>if I made a mistake in a zone and reload BIND, it refuses the zone.
>What will happen, if the same incorrect zone comes from other (non-BIND) DNS
>server via AXFR? will bind refure the zone at all, or will it refuse new
>zone and continue providing old one?

Zone transfer doesn't work with the text format of the zone file, it uses
the DNS protocol.  So it can't have a syntax error if the master server is
functioning properly.

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