bind 9 and named-xfer?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <87o2cb$mof$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>,  <bleve at my-deja.com> wrote:
>I've got bind 9 up and running on a solaris 8ea machine
>(BIND 9.0.0b1, see http://www.isc.org).  After getting it working
>on an IPv6 host, I had a look around the distribution and it looks
>like named-xfer has gone away.  It's now part of named (named's
>huge though!).  Zone transfers between it and bind 8.2.2p5 seem to
>work just fine.

I hope they bring it back.  I use it often to perform manual zone
transfers.  We need to use the -x option to specify a source address (our
hidden slave server has IP aliases, so we need to ensure that zone
transfers come from the address in customers' allow-transfer lists); if an
analogous option were added to "dig" I suppose I could use that, but then
I'd have to manually cut out the second SOA record, and also the comments
at the beginning would be different, making grepping harder.

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