Unreachable IP in allow transfer

[JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉]

At Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:34:46 -0400,
Barry Margolin <barmar at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> This look more like the result of "masters { 123.123.123.123;}".  If a 
> slave can't connect to the master, it will time out when it tries to 
> perform a zone transfer.
> 
> I'm not sure why this would cause slow response times, though.  I assume 
> the zone transfer is done in a separate thread from query processing.

Actually, whether or not threads are used, an unreachable master
server itself shouldn't cause slower response times because zone
transfers take place asynchronously.

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JINMEI, Tatuya
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