AXFR and IXFR

[Barry Margolin]

In article <Pine.GSO.4.02.9906091428200.18690-100000 at struten>,
Tom-Erik Hestholm  <tom.erik.hestholm at ark.no> wrote:
>What does IXFR and AXFR mean in BIND 8.1 ?
>Does anybody have a document with all this abbreviations ?

AXFR = zone transfer - what a slave server does to get a copy of the zone
from the master server.

IXFR = incremental zone transfer - a form of zone transfer where only the
changes since an earlier version of the zone are transmitted.

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