zone transfer problem (newbie issue)

mayer mayer at gis.net
Sat May 14 02:12:20 UTC 2005


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> 
>     Another thing to check is the zone transfer format.  IIRC, this 
> changed between BIND-8 and BIND-9, and while BIND-9 has no problems 
> doing zone transfers from BIND-8 servers (it reads the older format 
> just fine), some older servers may have problems doing zone transfers 
> from BIND-9 servers (they may have problems with the new format, if 
> there are too many records).
> 
No Brad, BIND 8 and BIND 9 interoperate and handle AXFR zone transfers
just fine. It's IXFR where there may be issues. AXFR format hasn't
changed since RFC 1034 was issued.

Danny
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