authorize zone transfers
Barry Margolin
barmar at genuity.net
Wed Apr 26 21:48:28 UTC 2000
In article <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004261136200.1485-100000 at mammalia.sea>,
R Joseph Wright <rjoseph at speakeasy.org> wrote:
>This is a pretty simple question, but I can't find the answer anywhere.
>I've set up my own dns server to use as a primary and I want to use the
>public dns service at granitecanyon.com for my secondary. Their
>instructions are very simple, but step one is something I can't find the
>answer to:
>Authorize ns1 and ns2.granitecanyon.com to perform zone xfers from your
>primary nameserver.
>How do I do that? Do I need to add a line to named.conf or what?
You have to *not* add a line. By default, everyone is authorized to do
zone transfers, but you can restrict it with the allow-transfer option. If
you do so, make sure that the list includes their servers.
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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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