From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 3 9:58:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6B3E1553C for ; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 09:58:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA26117; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 12:58:42 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwlucas) From: Michael Lucas Message-Id: <199911031758.MAA26117@blackhelicopters.org> Subject: Re: DNS named-xfer In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19991103114652.00a64100@midwest.net> from "Jonathan E. Lyons" at "Nov 3, 1999 11:46:52 am" To: parrothd@midwest.net (Jonathan E. Lyons) Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 12:58:42 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well, first of all, it's been a year since I've run any big-ass name servers, so this is likely to be outdated. YMMV. short answer: no long answer: This has been the subject of various DNS working groups for some time, along with partial zone transfers. Go to www.isc.org and start digging through the BIND documentation. You'll find it educational, and you might learn that it's been integrated into the latest BIND. I'm just not sure. ==ml > Well, that just sucks....hehe..... > > Is there an option that I should have in my named.conf that will notify the > secondary name servers that a change has been named? Or do I just have to > wait until refresh, since I don't have access to that machine. I'm running > the newer version of BIND 8(?), not sure about the other machine.... > > > Thanks for the reply! > > At 12:33 PM 11/3/99 -0500, Michael Lucas wrote: > >Only if you have a shell account on the secondary. > > > >> Is there a way to transfere DNS zone information from the primay machine to > >> secondary manually? I've tried named-xfer, but it looks like it's trying to > >> transfere the zone from the secondary to the primay, the reverse of what I > >> want to do.. :( > > > Jonathan E. Lyons > parrothd@midwest.net Nucleus Consulting > ICQ # 14226912 www.nucleusconsulting.com > Cell # 773-251-1967 A+, MCSE, CCNA, FreeBSD! > Pager # 7732511967@mobile.att.net > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message