BIND 8.2.7 master ixfr to 9.2.2 slave

[Mike Mitchell]

I'd love to upgrade to BIND-9, but BIND-9 doesn't support
	rrset-order {
		class IN type A name "sas.com" order fixed;
	};

According to Cricket Liu, IXFR has been supported in BIND 8
since 8.2.2.  See=20
	http://www.fruug.org/Archive/2000-05/bind_822.pdf
if you don't believe me.  If IXFR is so broken in BIND 8,
why is the code still present in 8.4.6?  Why isn't it
at least ifdef'd out so it's not an option?

Why is the answer "don't do that" instead of "hmm.. Lets
see if we can fix the bug"?

Mike Mitchell
-----Original Message-----
From: Brad Knowles [mailto:brad at stop.mail-abuse.org]=20
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 9:02 PM
To: Mike Mitchell
Cc: bind-users at isc.org
Subject: Re: BIND 8.2.7 master ixfr to 9.2.2 slave

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=20
was always not-quite-there.  Use AXFR, or some other means to get the=20
information transmitted.  Or upgrade to BIND-9, where IXFR was=20
finally made to work right.

--=20
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