Re: zone transfer from slave

In article <bil6jd$1o80$1@sf1.isc.org>, <SWong@wiley.com> wrote:
>thank you very much for replying.
>
>Is it right that the following syntax are set in config file?
>min-refresh-time, max-refresh-time, min-retry-time, max-retry-time

If you have a good reason to override the domain administrator's SOA
settings, you could set them. They're not normally needed, though.

>and I guess there is no way a slave server can initiate a specific zone=
>transfer on demand right?

"rndc reload <zone-name>" should force the slave to initiate a refresh of
the specified zone immediately (this works in BIND 8 with "ndc", and I'm
extrapolating that it also works similarly in BIND 9 with "rndc".

>I had used the dig axfr, though the info I pulled seemed to be in a
>different format compare to when it was pull naturally.

It's not the exact same layout as BIND's built-in zone transfer, but it's
compatible, so you can use that as the zone file.

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