WIndows DNS (master) -> BIND (slave)

[Kevin Darcy]

Donny Jekels wrote:
> Effectively I learnt today that I do not have to pre-create minimal zone
> files for each zone I'd like to dump to the slave.
>
> Is that fact documented anywhere? 
Why would you expect all possible *negatives* to be enumerated in 
documentation?

- No, you do not need to "pre-create minimal zone files" before doing 
zone transfers
- No, you do not need to declare yourself a candidate for President of 
the United States before invoking "rndc"
- No, you do not need to sacrifice chickens naked by moonlight before 
constructing a "sortlist" directive (although the insanity induced may help)

You assumed something that wasn't the case. Don't blame the 
documentation. Just deal with it and move on. Lesson learned.

- Kevin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On
> Behalf Of Barry Margolin
> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 8:35 PM
> To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
> Subject: Re: WIndows DNS (master) -> BIND (slave)
>
> In article <f5bbku$1lb8$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
>  "Donny Jekels" <djekels at breakwater.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Ok I got it to work, I removed $ORIGIN from my own db.zone file then
>> then transfer worked.
>>     
>
> This makes little sense.  A slave server doesn't care what the old 
> contents of the zone file were -- it totally replaces it with the one it
>
> pulls from the master.
>
>