WIndows DNS (master) -> BIND (slave)

[Kevin Darcy]

Don't take it personally. This has evolved to more of a generic 
discussion of "does BIND need better documentation in this area?" rather 
than addressing your specific situation.

-Kevin

Donny Jekels wrote:
> I really didn't think so many people would jump in on this thread just
> because I am not BIND savvy and did not RTFM.
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> RTFM to me too.
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> Anyway it works and I am glad it does now I am on my marry way to get
> rid of windows DNS and DHCP in our environment.
> Thanks you everyone on this forum. 
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> I must say I am on a mailing list of many other tech forums and this one
> is by far the most responsive ;-)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On
> Behalf Of Kevin Darcy
> Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 4:14 PM
> To: bind-users at isc.org
> Subject: Re: WIndows DNS (master) -> BIND (slave)
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> Chris Thompson wrote:
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>> Just to stir things up a bit more, maybe I should remind everyone of
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>> 1434.   [bug]           "rndc reconfig" failed to initiate the initial
>>                         zone transfer of new slave zones.
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>> 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.)
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>> Ancient history, maybe, but effects like that get into the folklore,
>> usually in some garbled form.
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> 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?
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>       - Kevin
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