Domain query refused???

Barry Margolin barmar at bbnplanet.com
Tue Feb 8 16:46:12 UTC 2000


In article <919F9F0E43E8D111AFA40000F879E2F097BDA7 at mailsrv.szerencsejatek.hu>,
Takács István  <istvan.takacs at szerencsejatek.hu> wrote:
>Is it possible, that our secondary server gives back the 
>zones?

Yes.

>Do I have to ask the admins of our secondary to disable
>the zone downloads?

Yes.

>But who's responsible to download these files if I want
>to protect our network, but I want to keep our servers 
>accessible.

Blocking zone transfers won't "protect your network".

>ME ---zone files ---> SECONDARY ---zone files ---> NIC?? ----zone files --->
>????

Only secondary servers need to transfer the zone files.  Why would the NIC
need them?  The root servers just contain delegation records that tell
everyone to query your primary or secondary servers to get the records.

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