Allowing zone-xfers

[Barry Margolin]

In article <a26t3i$35m at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Vapour <vapour at nospam.email.com> wrote:
>Is there any configuration required to allow zone-transfers from another
>server?

By default, BIND will respond to zone transfer requests from any address.

>I have a Solaris server that hosts a domain. Recently, we need to allow
>another server to perform zonetransfers with this one. Is there any
>configuration required to allow this?  I assume merely setting the second up
>as slave would be too easy..

If you have the "allow-transfer" option configured, you'll need to put the
slave server's address in this access list.

If you have a firewall, make sure it allows TCP port 53 to the master
server.

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