<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>On Apr 24, 2013, at 2:21 PM, Manson, John wrote:</div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', serif; color: black; ">Works great. Got the conf file down to about 12 lines (only transferring 1 zone file for test).<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', serif; color: black; ">Only problem is the file is in slave format.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', serif; color: black; ">Is the master going to have a problem sending the db.x.bak to slaves?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', serif; color: black; ">When a slave receives the transferred file, will it do the slave conversion to the file which is already in slave format?<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div></span></blockquote></div><br><div>Please explain what you mean by "slave format". Do you mean binary (raw) format, or just formatted differently as a text file? (Different versions of BIND behave differently.)</div><div><br></div><div>Please keep in mind that a zone transfer between DNS servers is not a file transfer. The master does not send a file to the slaves. It sends DNS records, in binary (DNS protocol) format.</div><div><br></div><div>Chris Buxton</div></body></html>