xfer question
Joseph S D Yao
jsdy at cospo.osis.gov
Thu Jul 6 20:51:30 UTC 2000
On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 06:33:28AM +1000, Mark.Andrews at nominum.com wrote:
> > The exception is that under BIND 8, if you have child zones on the same
> > server as their parent zone, a transfer of the parent zone will bring
> > the child zones along with it. Although this is often useful, I
> > believe that it is technically incorrect, and further believe that it
> > will be fixed in BIND 9.
>
> BIND 8 merges the NS rrset from the child zone into the parent
> zone transfer. It does *not* merge the full zone. BIND 9 does
> not do any merging.
>
> That being said the is the following bug that is fixed in BIND 8.2.3.
>
> 990. [bug] we could loose track of a bottom of zone cut if the
> write buffer filled up at just the correct moment.
Thanks, Mark. Sorry, my memory exaggerated the merge. Still
recovering from a "vacation" with the kids [and a 4th of July in a
first aid station on the Mall]. ;-)
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Joe Yao jsdy at cospo.osis.gov - Joseph S. D. Yao
COSPO/OSIS Computer Support EMT-B
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