Bind 8.2.1 & IXFR

[Mark_Andrews at iengines.com]

> BTW - last time I queried the list about IXFR on 8.2.1, the answer from Mark
> @ isc was that it was "broken" in 8.2.1 and not to use it (no specifics -
> sorry).  
> 
> Once I twigged on the nsupdate requirement, IXFR did work ok in testing -
> but don't expect to keep your zone files nicely formatted and commented!
> 
> The release notes for 8.2.2 show lots of fixes for 8.2.2 - I haven't seen
> any postings on the list from people who had trouble with 8.2.1 but have
> found 8.2.2 to fix the probs...

	The server side should be working.  We disabled support in
	named-xfer for the release.  There should be a patch soon.

	Mark
> 
> J.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barry Margolin
> To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.uu.net
> Sent: 26/10/99 06:32
> Subject: Re: Bind 8.2.1 & IXFR
> 
> In article <199910251559.KAA04836 at tstdns4.sbc.com>,
> Blair Porter  <bp3434 at tstdns4.sbc.com> wrote:
> >I am beginning to tinker with IXFR, using Bind 8.2.1.  I have a master
> and
> >slave server set up to test with.  I put maintain-ixfr-base in the
> options
> >section of my configuration on both the master & slave.  I put the
> ixfr-base
> >option in the zone portion of the configuration.  I put the
> support-ixfr
> >option in the server portion of the configuration.  I also put the
> notify yes
> >option in the zone portion of the configuration.  I restarted named via
> ndc
> >on the master and slave.  I then manually updated the zone data on the
> master,
> >incremented the SOA and did a ndc reload.  The notify worked, but the
> transfer
> >was AXFR, not IXFR.  What else needs to be done to successfully use
> IXFR???
> 
> I believe BIND only supports IXFR for domains that are updated using
> dynamic update.  If you simply reload a new zone file on the master, it
> doesn't perform a "diff" to determine the changes.  But if you use
> dynamic
> update, it maintains a log of the updates, and IXFR sends those changes.
> 
> -- 
> Barry Margolin, barmar at bbnplanet.com
> GTE Internetworking, Powered by BBN, Burlington, MA
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> 
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