ZONE TRANSFER RESTRICTION

Lawrence Chan webmaster at montevino.com
Sat Nov 6 05:55:46 UTC 1999


Noted and thanks.

Lawrence Chan
lchan at montevino.com

Barry Margolin wrote:

> In article <3823941D.8894956F at montevino.com>,
> Lawrence Chan <webmaster at montevino.com> wrote:
> >With current BIND setting, one can config the name servers under one's
> >administration to restrict zone transfer update to designated secondary
> >servers.  Are there ways to ensure that those secondaries (most likely
> >under different LAN admin policies) also would oblige with the same
> >restriction?  If not, and short of running both primary and secondaries
> >on the same LAN, one could easily try for zone transfer from the
> >secondaries eventhough restricted from the primary, would it not?
>
> You're correct.  Transfer limitations are not passed along.
>
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