Microsoft DNS - Zone Transfers

Barry Margolin barmar at bbnplanet.com
Mon Oct 11 18:55:22 UTC 1999


In article <7tsnu3$lf1$1 at news.news-service.com>,
Steve Craft <Stephen_Craft at uhs.org> wrote:
>I'm running a primary and secondary DNS servers (MS ... I know ...).  I 
>quasi-manually (not using DNS Manager) update my zone files.  When I update 
>the files in this manner and stop/start the DNS service, the updated files do 
>not transfer to the secondary.

Are you remembering to increment the serial number in the SOA record when
you make these updates?  That's how the secondary servers tell that the
zone has changed.

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