allow-transfer not covering ixfr requests?

[Torsten Segner]

Am Tue, 27 Sep 2011 22:03:44 +0200
schrieb "Tom Schmitt" <TomSchmitt at gmx.de>:

> 
> > 
> > The odd part is that both NS3 and NS4 weren't able to request ixfr
> > transfers. 
> > Shouldn't allow-transfer cover these kind of transfer requests as well?
> > 
> 
> 
> First: Do you have statements "provide ixfr;" and "request ixfr;" in your config?
> 
> Second: To do a ixfr a server is first sending a query for the SOA of the zone to determine if a update is necessary. If your servers aren't allowed to do a query, how should they get the SOA? And without a SOA, you don't have the serial number of the zone, so you can't do IXFR.
> 


Silly me... I forgot about the SOA requests triggered by a manual ixfr. :(


Ciao
Torsten