administering 1,000 zone files

[Jim Reid]

>>>>> "Alex" == Alex R <alex at deviousmeans.net> writes:

    >> how about just rsync and cron?  Want it more secure?  rsync
    >> over ssh and cron :-)
    Alex> Why not just have a script in cron use scp? That way you
    Alex> don't have to worry about tunneling it over ssh witch takes
    Alex> more setup.

You are badly confused. rsync uses ssh by default. Tunnelling is not
needed either. In fact scp uses the same protocol as ssh.