From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 4 8:52:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clientmail.realtime.co.uk (simian.realtime.co.uk [194.205.134.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EEF037B440 for ; Fri, 4 May 2001 08:52:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from waynep@zaphod.realtime.co.uk) Received: from zaphod.realtime.co.uk ([194.205.134.208]) by clientmail.realtime.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 14vhsw-0005MM-01; Fri, 04 May 2001 16:52:50 +0100 Received: from waynep by zaphod.realtime.co.uk with local (Exim 3.20 #1) id 14vhst-000MNT-00; Fri, 04 May 2001 16:52:47 +0100 From: Wayne Pascoe To: Edwin Groothuis Cc: , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Purpose of serial number in zone files (BIND) References: <20010504163252.D50786@d9168.upc-d.chello.nl> <20010504160732.A1139@cartman.techsupport.co.uk> <20010504173201.E50786@d9168.upc-d.chello.nl> Reply-To: wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk Date: 04 May 2001 16:52:47 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20010504173201.E50786@d9168.upc-d.chello.nl> Message-ID: Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Edwin Groothuis writes: > Why don't you let the DNS protocol handle the distribution towards > the slaves? Then you only have to worry about the creation on the > master. I really don't see the advantages of what you try to > accomplish. That is one possiblity. But we can do database access over ssh tunnel. Also, I want to dissallow zone transfers by default for slightly increased security. AFAIK, some of the bind bugs have been related to zone transfers. -- - Wayne Pascoe E-mail: wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk Phone : +44 (0) 20 7544 4668 Mobile: +44 (0) 788 431 1675 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message