Non-local DNS resolution question
Ladislav Vobr
lvobr at ies.etisalat.ae
Tue Jun 15 04:50:19 UTC 2004
> Has the implementation of stub zones changed? When I first looked at it
> (back in BIND 4 days), it performed a zone transfer, but ignored
> everything but the SOA and NS records. So the zone-transfer overhead
> was the same. I'm also not sure that it looked at nested NS records
> within the zone; I thought it only cared about the ones at the zone apex.
In bind 8,9 it queries only for normal SOA record and than for NS
records, it uses TCP to query for NS records, while UDP for SOA records,
but it doesn't do a zone transfer, in fact I am using it with
tranfer-allowed { none; };
Ladislav
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