BIND 9.2.4rc8 Multithreading on Win32

[Vinny Abello]

At 12:35 AM 9/14/2004, Danny Mayer wrote:
>At 09:46 PM 9/12/2004, Vinny Abello wrote:
>>At 12:21 PM 9/12/2004, Danny Mayer wrote:
>>>At 10:42 AM 9/11/2004, Vinny Abello wrote:
>>>>At 11:29 PM 9/10/2004, you wrote:
>>>>>>OK... The unfortunate part is any RBL that I serve secondary for 
>>>>>>works in either one of two ways. The first is AXFR. I don't have 
>>>>>>control over this.
>>>>>
>>>>>You can't get them to run BIND 9 and use IXFR?
>>>>
>>>>It's a free service (sbl.spamhaus.org). I never even contacted them. 
>>>>They allow anyone to do zone transfers and they are not IXFR (based on 
>>>>the information I see in the logs anyway) so I don't believe I have any 
>>>>say in it, unfortunately. I could try to reach out to them to find out.
>>>
>>>The IXFR is initiated by the client, not the server. If the server is 
>>>unable to
>>>handle IXFR the client falls back to AXFR. If they're running BIND 9 there
>>>should be no problem.
>>
>>If the server isn't lying, they're running the same version that I am 
>>now. 9.3.0rc4. I was assuming it was AXFR because I didn't see mention of 
>>IXFR in the logs... but now that I'm looking at it. I don't see either. 
>>Is there an easy way to tell from the slave side what's happening? I 
>>don't see much reference to what the zone transfer types are in the logs 
>>unless they're from my server to a slave.
>
>If it's running 9.3.0 then it certainly can handle IXFR. You need to specify
>it on your side and they need to allow it on their side. See section 6.2.18
>of the ARM. You need to specify request-ixfr for the zone and they need
>provide-ixfr for the zone. It's to their benefit to do this as it lessens 
>the load
>on the server.

Thanks. I'll look into it.

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And thanks for all your other comments and information!

Vinny Abello
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