bind 9 and named-xfer?

[Kevin J. Dunlap]

At 08:34 AM 02/08/2000 -0800, you wrote:
>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.

Yes, use Dig and let named-xfer die a slow agonizing death.
This is coming from my experience of trying to work on named-xfer's code.
If you want this functionality use dig or write something from scratch.
Do not let the current code for named-xfer live.

-Kevin