how to do global zone transfers?

[Jim Reid]

>>>>> "stephan" == stephan kurtz <stephan at greencedars.com> writes:

    stephan> Is there a way to arrange for my server to be able to
    stephan> transfer ALL the domain (or zone) information on the
    stephan> remote primary? 

There is no protocol (=> standard way) for doing this. Some out of
band communication is needed between the master and slave server.  For
instance, the master server's administrator tells the slave server's
administrator that new zones have been added. If the master and slave
are under the same administrative control, it should be simple to
maintain a meta-file containing zone information that gets processed
to automatically generate named.conf files. Organisations with huge
numbers of zones tend to do this with scripts that hook into their
customer provisioning systems.

There's usually more to adding a new zone than just inserting an extra
zone{} statement. There will be policy considerations such as which
server(s) slave the zone, what access policies apply to the zone --
transfers, recursive queries, dynamic updates, etc -- and whether TSIG
is used for authentication.