BIND 8.2.7 master ixfr to 9.2.2 slave

[Brad Knowles]

At 1:59 PM -0400 2005-05-04, Mike Mitchell wrote:

>  About once a day I have a BIND 9.2.2 slave truncate a zone after an IXFR
>  from a BIND 8 master.  The packet trace shows the master sending an IXFR
>  response containing only two SOA records.

	Don't use IXFR with BIND-8.  The code changed multiple times, and 
was always not-quite-there.  Use AXFR, or some other means to get the 
information transmitted.  Or upgrade to BIND-9, where IXFR was 
finally made to work right.

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