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From: barrett@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA (Alan P Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
Subject: Re: Zone transfers for "."
Keywords: zone transfers root domain
Message-ID: <1991Jun17.220952.1807@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA>
Date: 17 Jun 91 22:09:52 GMT
References: <linegar.676842236@bwdls49>
Organization: Univ. Natal, Durban, S. Africa
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In article <linegar.676842236@bwdls49>,
linegar@bwdls49.bnr.ca (Derick Linegar) writes:
>     In setting up a "lab" DNS system that mimics the Internet,
>     we've come to the argument where one sides insist that
>     zone transfers *do not* work for the root domain. Is this
>     true? How does the root servers keep things in sync? Wouldn't
>     it be a waste not to use zone transfers for root and use it
>     everywhere else?

Among Berkeley bind 4.8.1's problems is that it makes a total mess of
root zone transfers.  I hear that bind 4.8.3 has the same problem with
root zones, but I haven't seen the code myself.  (I guess the real root
servers don't run Berkeley bind?)

Shout if you want my patches to bind 4.8.1 to make it do root zone
transfers correctly.

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