root and in-addr.arpa zone transfers

[Rich Goodson]

Michael,

Here's a snippet from my named.conf which does what you're talking  
about.  I use this in our recursive resolvers, but for authoritative  
servers, I find the hints file to be somewhat more robust.
FYI, I stole this originally from the default FreeBSD named.conf file  
that got pushed out with a 6.something update. There was some  
controversy in the FreeBSD mailing lists about it, so I have no idea  
whether it's still used or not.

zone "." {
         type slave;
         file "slave/root.slave";
         masters {
                 192.33.4.12;    // C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
                 192.112.36.4;   // G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
                 193.0.14.129;   // K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
         };
         notify no;
};
zone "arpa" {
         type slave;
         file "slave/arpa.slave";
         masters {
                 192.33.4.12;    // C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
                 192.112.36.4;   // G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
                 193.0.14.129;   // K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
         };
         notify no;
};
zone "in-addr.arpa" {
         type slave;
         file "slave/in-addr.arpa.slave";
         masters {
                 192.33.4.12;    // C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
                 192.112.36.4;   // G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
                 193.0.14.129;   // K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
         };
         notify no;
};


Rich Goodson
Sr. Unix Administrator
Mediacom Communications

On Sep 9, 2009, at 1:23 AM, Michael Monnerie wrote:

> Hello,
>
> right now I'm using scripts to download root.zone and in-addr.arpa  
> from
> internic.net. But this is a non-standard way, I'd prefer to directly
> slave and zone-transfer those 2 zones.
> Is it possible, and can you show the bind config for these?
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
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