Trigger program on zone transfer

Cricket Liu cricket at nxdomain.com
Mon Feb 24 19:02:38 UTC 2003


On Monday, February 24, 2003, at 06:35  AM, Markus B wrote:

> is there a solution for my problem? I'd like to run an external
> program on the server every time Bind transfers a zone from its
> primary.

With BIND 8 name servers, you can use the named-xfer options
substatement to redefine the name of the executable named
exec()s to perform a zone transfer.  If you write a wrapper for
the named-xfer program that also runs your external program,
you could have named exec() that.

cricket

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