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- From: vixie@pa.dec.com (Paul A Vixie)
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- Subject: Re: Zone X'fer of the root zone
- Message-ID: <VIXIE.93Jan26113946@cognition.pa.dec.com>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 19:39:46 GMT
- References: <1993Jan19.223905.22319@schbbs.mot.com>
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- In-reply-to: D.Nash@utexas.edu's message of 25 Jan 93 23:56:36 GMT
-
- >Zone transfers of the root zones don't work because the root nameservers
- >have zone transfers disabled. This is to keep people from transferring
- >the huge root and first-level zones and thus overloading the
- >already-overworked root nameservers. As it was pointed out, the root
- >zone files are available via FTP, and this is how they want you to get them.
- >
- > Donald L. Nash
-
- well, there's that, but there's also a nasty bug in BIND 4.8.3 (fixed in 4.9,
- thanks to Alan Barrett) that keeps root zone transfers from working at all,
- regardless of administrative restrictions.
- --
- Paul Vixie, DEC Network Systems Lab
- Palo Alto, California, USA "Don't be a rebel, or a conformist;
- <vixie@pa.dec.com> decwrl!vixie they're the same thing, anyway. Find
- <paul@vix.com> vixie!paul your own path, and stay on it." -me
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