Clarification on Comments in Bind 9.2

[Kevin Darcy]

Jain Manish wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>As we know that Bind 9.2 support comments in both named.conf and
>zone.db file. Recently, I found that during zone transfer, comments
>entered in the primary zone's file are not being transferred to the
>secondary. I think this is the expected behavior of Bind 9.2. Can
>somebody correct me, if I am wrong in this assumption?
>
You are wrong in that assumption. Zone transfers only transfer zone 
data. Comments are not considered part of the zone data. If you want to 
transfer *files* (as opposed to zone data), then use a file transfer 
mechanism.

- Kevin