WIndows DNS (master) -> BIND (slave)

Clenna Lumina savagebeaste at yahoo.com
Fri Jun 22 03:31:13 UTC 2007


Mark Andrews wrote:
>> Kevin Darcy wrote:
>>> Donny Jekels wrote:
>>>> Effectively I learnt today that I do not have to pre-create minimal
>>>> zone files for each zone I'd like to dump to the slave.
>>>>
>>>> Is that fact documented anywhere?
>>> Why would you expect all possible *negatives* to be enumerated in
>>> documentation?
>>>
>>> - No, you do not need to "pre-create minimal zone files" before
>>> doing zone transfers
>>> - No, you do not need to declare yourself a candidate for President
>>> of the United States before invoking "rndc"
>>> - No, you do not need to sacrifice chickens naked by moonlight
>>> before constructing a "sortlist" directive (although the insanity
>>> induced may help)
>>>
>>> You assumed something that wasn't the case. Don't blame the
>>> documentation. Just deal with it and move on. Lesson learned.
>>>
>>> - Kevin
>>
>> Being a little harsh aren't you? I think theres a big difference
>> between "pre-create minimal zone files" and "sacrifice chickens" or
>> "declare your self a canidate for President". The first actually has
>> something to do with Bind, the others complete do not. I would think
>> it would be worthy of mention in the docs, as no everyone is clear
>> on that sort of thing when you're starting out.
>
> Slaves get the zone contents from masters.  The only place where
> you need to create a minimal zone file is to bootstrap a dynamic
> zone and even then it is on the master that you do this.
>
>> Many things out there have an FAQ section in the docs (Perl, PHP,
>> Apache, etc), seems that would be a perfect section for the
>> "pre-create minimal zone files" issue (stating simply that one need
>> not do so.)
>
> This isn't a FAQ issue.  In 20 years this is the first time
> I've heard of someone creating a minimal zone for a slave.
>
> Googling for 'slave "minimal zone file"' comes up with exactly
> one page.
>
> Mark

http://groups.google.com/groups/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&num=100&q=%22minimal+zone%22+group%3A*bind*

9 hits. Anyone should know how to refine their searches. You even go 
furthur most like. You just went with "minimal" effort :)

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CL

>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org]
>>>> On Behalf Of Barry Margolin
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 8:35 PM
>>>> To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
>>>> Subject: Re: WIndows DNS (master) -> BIND (slave)
>>>>
>>>> In article <f5bbku$1lb8$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
>>>>  "Donny Jekels" <djekels at breakwater.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Ok I got it to work, I removed $ORIGIN from my own db.zone file
>>>>> then then transfer worked.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This makes little sense.  A slave server doesn't care what the old
>>>> contents of the zone file were -- it totally replaces it with the
>>>> one it
>>>>
>>>> pulls from the master.
>>
>>
>>
> --
> Mark Andrews, ISC
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