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From: barrett@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA (Alan P Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
Subject: Re: problem in transferring root zones
Message-ID: <1991May07.212011.7555@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA>
Date: 7 May 91 21:20:11 GMT
References: <91123.085834HATHAWA@gecrdvm1.crd.ge.com>
Organization: Univ. Natal, Durban, S. Africa
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In article <91123.085834HATHAWA@gecrdvm1.crd.ge.com>,
HATHAWA@gecrdvm1.crd.ge.com (Barry Hathaway) writes:
> I'm having a problem getting a root zone to transfer correctly among several
> name servers on an internal class A network.  The zone will transfer; however,
> all MX records never get transferred.  The MX records are all wildcards
> (i.e.  *.AT, *.EDU, etc.) for high level domains which point to a gateway
> machine.  The same zone file will work correctly on the primary server, but
> will not get correctly tranferred.  The software is Berkeley bind 4.8.3
> running under Ultrix 4.1.   Has anybody seen this problem?  Any ideas?

I don't know about 4.8.3, but I had to do some hacking on Berkeley
bind 4.8.1 before it would transfer root zones.  Shout if you want the
diffs.

--apb
Alan Barrett, Dept. of Electronic Eng., Univ. of Natal, Durban, South Africa
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