WIndows DNS (master) -> BIND (slave)

[Mark Andrews]

> Kevin Darcy wrote:
> > 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
> 
> Being a little harsh aren't you? I think theres a big difference between 
> "pre-create minimal zone files" and "sacrifice chickens" or "declare 
> your self a canidate for President". The first actually has something to 
> do with Bind, the others complete do not. I would think it would be 
> worthy of mention in the docs, as no everyone is clear on that sort of 
> thing when you're starting out.

	Slaves get the zone contents from masters.  The only place where
	you need to create a minimal zone file is to bootstrap a dynamic
	zone and even then it is on the master that you do this.
 
> Many things out there have an FAQ section in the docs (Perl, PHP, 
> Apache, etc), seems that would be a perfect section for the "pre-create 
> minimal zone files" issue (stating simply that one need not do so.)

	This isn't a FAQ issue.  In 20 years this is the first time
	I've heard of someone creating a minimal zone for a slave.

	Googling for 'slave "minimal zone file"' comes up with exactly
	one page.

	Mark
> -- 
> CL
> 
> >> -----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.
> 
> 
> 
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