1 Basic Fundamental question on Bind 8.2.5

Nate Campi nate at wired.com
Sat Jan 12 03:00:17 UTC 2002


On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 08:55:01PM -0600, Jim Herrick wrote:
> 
> Nope.
> 
> DNS is a pull type of service.  The master can send NOTIFY messages to its
> slaves, but the slave still have to PULL a zone transfer.
> 
> Right?


Right.


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rakesh Shah" <srakesh28 at hotmail.com>
> To: <bind-users at isc.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 3:41 PM
> Subject: 1 Basic Fundamental question on Bind 8.2.5
> 
> 
> >
> > Friends,
> > I just want to clarify my understanding on Zone Transfer's ,
> >
> > Either the Master DNS server can push the zone data or Secondary DNS can
> > pull from the master correct ?
> >
> > Can the Secondary server transfer the zone file to another secondary
> server
> > for the given zone ?
> >
> > I have 1 subdomain corp.rfc.com (it's all Internal) that is the Primary
> > master and 2 secondary server's--> and 3rd  DNS server it just the
> secondary
> > for rfc.com so will the zone files of corp.rfc.com be transfered from one
> of
> > the secondary server to this 3rd DNS server or it will only have the
> > Reference to the NS record of corp.rfc.com.
> >
> >
> > Thank you in Advance.
> >
> > Sorry if this explanation is confusing.
> >
> >
> >
> > Rakesh Shah
> >
> >
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> 

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