[afnog] DNS zone transfer

[Brian Candler]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 08:57:07AM +0200, Mark Tinka wrote:
> > test      NS ns
> >          NS ns2
> >          NS ns3.other.com.
> >
> > Anyone has had such a problem?
> 
> I haven't had experience with BIND-4, but from experience 
> with BIND-8 and 9, this doesn't look like a problem. If 
> the zone name is "foo.bar", then incomplete resource 
> records in the zone db file will automatically have the 
> zone name (foo.bar, in this case) suffixed to make the 
> FQDN.
> 
> Of course, ns3.other.com doesn't belong to the foo.bar 
> domain, so it'll need to have its name in the FQDN 
> fashion.
> 
> I have this same setup for several zones I host, and it's 
> working. 
> 
> Despite this, does this zone work?

To check: on the slave server, type

$ dig @localhost foo.bar. axfr

having ensured that 127.0.0.1 is in 'allow_transfer' in named.conf
This will show you the contents of the zone as served out by the nameserver.

Regards,

Brian.