WIndows DNS (master) -> BIND (slave)

[Clenna Lumina]

Kevin Darcy wrote:
> Chris Thompson wrote:
>> Just to stir things up a bit more, maybe I should remind everyone of
>>
>> 1434.   [bug]           "rndc reconfig" failed to initiate the
>>                         initial zone transfer of new slave zones.
>>
>> fixed in 9.2.3. What the description there doesn't say is that before
>> the fix BIND would initiate the zone transfer for a slave zone newly
>> appeared in the configuration if and only if the zone file already
>> existed. (I believe the contents of the file didn't matter.)
>>
>> Ancient history, maybe, but effects like that get into the folklore,
>> usually in some garbled form.
>>
> And how many folks do you think would be, on the one hand, BIND-savvy
> enough to use "rndc reconfig", yet, on the other hand, not know that
> BIND is perfectly capable of creating slave zone files from scratch?

That was the point. He brought that there was an issue regarding that at 
one time a minimal zone file was needed a few versions ago. No big deal, 
just thought it was a nice bit of history there.