different result between normal query and zone transfer

MAYER Hans Hans.Mayer at iiasa.ac.at
Sun Jul 9 05:14:21 UTC 2017


Hi Steven, 

Many thanks for your answer. 
Isn’t there a flag or option to say handle all sub-zones like normal A or CNAME records too ? 

// Hans



> On 6 Jul 2017, at 15:05, Steven Carr <sjcarr at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 6 July 2017 at 12:29, MAYER Hans <Hans.Mayer at iiasa.ac.at> wrote:
>> For me this looks like a bug. Why is the answer for a normal query different than the answer from a zone transfer ?
>> Or do I miss a special flag for this setup ?
>> I am using BIND 9.11.1 <id:e3dc2e7> but I had the same issue with older versions too.
> 
> A zone transfer is transferring the contents of the zone, the zone in
> question is 'iiasa.ac.at', but you've also created a subzone
> 'test44.iiasa.ac.at' which is a completely separate point of
> administration that just happens to hide records inside of the parent
> zone. So on your slaves you will also need to slave the subzone if you
> want it to override the records there.
> 
> A query will traverse the tree until it finds the lowest point of
> delegation with which to obtain a response from.



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