WIndows DNS (master) -> BIND (slave)

[Kevin Darcy]

Chris Thompson wrote:
> Just to stir things up a bit more, maybe I should remind everyone of
>
> 1434.   [bug]           "rndc reconfig" failed to initiate the initial
>                         zone transfer of new slave zones.
>
> fixed in 9.2.3. What the description there doesn't say is that before
> the fix BIND would initiate the zone transfer for a slave zone newly 
> appeared in the configuration if and only if the zone file already 
> existed. (I believe the contents of the file didn't matter.)
>
> Ancient history, maybe, but effects like that get into the folklore,
> usually in some garbled form.
>   
And how many folks do you think would be, on the one hand, BIND-savvy 
enough to use "rndc reconfig", yet, on the other hand, not know that 
BIND is perfectly capable of creating slave zone files from scratch?

                                                                         
      - Kevin