Re: zone transfer from slave

SWong@wiley.com wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We have just upgraded our BIND to 9.2.2, on Solaris 8, this server is
> primary for some domains and secondary for others.
>
> I understand that slave servers can pull the zone via different means, such
> as depending on the expire interval, serial number, etc. as well as
> removing the zone file on slave server.
> I have a few zone files that is located in a different location and I do
> not have access to. How can I pull individual zone from slave without
> restarting the entire slave name server? rndc is only executed on primary
> server, is this correct?

"dig -t axfr zonename slavename", if your slave is configured to allow
the transfers. Or "scp root@slavename:/var/named/\* /tmp/." if it's
running SSH.

What kind of slave is it?