BIND 9.1, Views, and Zone Transfers

[Alain Fontaine (Post master, UCL)]

Thank you for your reply.

À (At) 11:00 +0100 5/02/01, Jim Reid écrivait (wrote) :

>If you're using internal and external views, why would you want to put
>the internal one on an external name server?

This is perhaps less useful that what was asked for originally by Matt.
Let's say that it was a matter of symmetry. I did not see any answer
to the original question either.

>At present no, the view ns3.foo.com will get for the zone transfer
>will depend on the source IP address it uses for the axfr query.
>There's no mechanism in the DNS protocol yet for "tagging" zone
>transfers with a view name.

For transfer of the external zone between the internal servers (those
will often be under the same management), as aked by Matt, one could
use tricks 'by mutual agreement'. Playing with port numbers, for example.
No modifications would then be needed to the DNS protocol.

I did look at all the places where one can specify a port number in
the configuration, but it seems that no combination will allow one to
do what was requested.

                                                    /AF