WIndows DNS (master) -> BIND (slave)

[Clenna Lumina]

Donny Jekels wrote:
>
> Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> >
> > Barry Margolin wrote a message of 26 lines which said:
> > >
> > > Does anyone think it's necessary to pre-create file2 before doing
> > > "cp file1 file2"?
> >
> > This may show my old age but I've worked with an operating system
> > (Bull DPS) where the sysadmin, yes, had to create the file in 
> > advance
> > and, worse, had to specify the maximum size it will reach.
>
> No you don't have to precreate files. Just make sure you specify the
> file name in the zone, then start named and when the zone transfer
> happen bind will create the file for you.

You missed that point. He *had* to do that per whatever policy he seemed 
to be working under. He didn't say wh oro what imposed the policy but 
it's obvious to me there was such a constraint.

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CL