[bind10-dev] Some thoughts about XFR

[Evan Hunt]

> 1. I plan to save zone's XFR configuration data in module Auth server,
> since auth server has configuration item "zone list", which specify the
> zones it serves, so user can set XFR configuration for each zone in the
> 'zone list'. 

I think the "zone list" configuration was supposed to go away soon; it was
for ParkingLot and was considered unnecessary for Auth.

However, allowing per-zone configuration seems like a good reason to keep
it.  We should discuss this on the call.

> 2. Xfrout:        
>       Ath server will get the XFR query on port 53(or others), then send
> the client information to module xfrout through msgq(c-channel), xfrout
> will connect with xfr client directly, when zone transfer is finished,
> xfrout will close the connection.  (*If somebody has a good suggestion
> ,please let me know.  :)

Sounds like a good plan.

                                        eh