Simple question about ZONE TRANSFER

[Barry Margolin]

In article <a1fpia$mpl at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
David Nedved  <dnedved at nuvox.net> wrote:
>> How it is possible to force a zone transfer??
>
>Increment the serial number and wait at least your SOA refresh time
>limit.  Zone transfers are pulled, not pushed.  If you had
>access to the secondary, you could "ndc reload zone".  You can set
>the refresh as low as you like for testing, but be considerate of
>the ISP doing your slaving and set it back to something reasonable
>(see RFC 1537 for recommendations) when done testing.

If the ISP's server is running BIND 8 or 9, it will handle the NOTIFY
message that the OP's master server sends whenever it reloads a zone.  This
will cause it to pull a zone transfer almost immediately.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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