Zone Transfer Issues With BIND9

[Barry Margolin]

In article <c5pt2k$23b9$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 Kevin Darcy <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> wrote:

> Well, you need to specify a zone for the "refresh" command, see "rndc 
> -h". What did you think a non-zone-specific "refresh" would do? Refresh 
> *all* zones? That would have been hardly better than your "horrible 
> workaround"...

What's so wrong with wanting to refresh all zones?  For zones that 
haven't changed, it's just an SOA query.  It's much better than 
restarting named, since the server can continue to answer queries while 
this is happening.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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