Preventing non-authorized zonetransfers??

[Josh Higham]

-----Original Message-----
From: Reinier J. Bruil <reinierb at kpn.net>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.dns.bind
To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org
<comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org>
Date: Thursday, September 28, 2000 11:31 AM
Subject: Preventing non-authorized zonetransfers??


[...]
>Now we could add the allow-zonetransfer directive in each
>zonedescription, but that would make the nameserver very slow; besides,


What gave you that impression?  I don't think allow-transfer will affect
your nameserver at all, unless someone requests a transfer (not too
frequent), and then it should still (probably) cause less load then actually
transfering the zone.  Let me know if I'm wrong, or misunderstanding you.

Josh Higham