Zone transfers and EOF Problem.

[Barry Margolin]

In article <JKPH3.232$4X3.4266 at ord-read.news.verio.net>,
Bill Webb <wwebb at adni.net> wrote:
>A dig ... soa +norec returns an authoritative "aa" flag from the master.   A
>dig ... axfr to the master returns all the zone data.  Sounds good.   BUT,
>when a slave zone is set on another server to that master, an error message
>is logged  "premature EOF."   I understand that means there is a problem
>with the masters zone file.   All this takes me to the question,  will other
>servers be able to query the zone data from the master based on what the dig
>results produce, or will the subtle error detected by the slave server be
>the type of error that will prevent other servers from loading zone data ?

If there are any delegation records that point to the slave server, other
servers may ask it rather than the master server.  If it can't transfer the
zone, it will give out incorrect results, which they'll believe.

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