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To: "Jonathan E. Lyons" <parrothd@midwest.net>
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Subject: Re: DNS named-xfer 
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If both machines are running bind 8, the primary will send a notify
to the secondary and the secondary will initiate a zone transfer.
You don't need anything special in your conf file to make this work.
The secondary does have to be listed in an NS record for the zone.

-Mitch


>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.. :(
>
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