Search Again: Re:feature request From: Aron S. Spencer Date: Wednesday, May 14, 1997 Time: 9:36:00 pm At 8:37 AM -0700 5/14/97, Scott Kozicki altered the fabric of cyberspace, writing: > > Wouldn't it be better for QDNS to simply get the DNS setup via a zone > > transfer. Doing an FTP to get a file is a kludge. > > > > Our ISP does this with us now - their servers are the primary and > > secondary, but they get their setup info from our DNS via a zone transfer. > > Actually, no. A zone transfer is exactly that, a request for information > on one zone. We already have this functionality in the current secondary > features. This is great when zerver A and server B want to mirror or > secondary for each other a known set of domains. > > But what if I (being server A) want to mirror whatever server B decides > to have mirrored? Without server B constantly telling me "this domain, > that domain" I can't do this. If I wanted to blanket any domains that > server B wanted mirrored, then I would have to get a full list. > > My idea is to have a way that I can say "load up this file, parse it, > and mirror all the domains listed in it". Then I can set it up and > forget about it. Server B would make edits to that file, and would > ultimately control his/her own mirroring without my intervention. > > Obviously you'd need to establish some limits, perhaps with file/zone > size and frequency of updates. > > Does this make more sense? > ~Scott On the SGI Indy's that I manage, there is a file called named.boot, which bears a strong resemblance to QuickDNS Pro's Secondary Domains file, except that it lists the primaries as well (though they don't have a server address, just the file name.) Upstream (Secondary DNS) appears to be able to just read that file and pull zone transfers for everything in the list. I don't believe that this is doable, either direction, in QuickDNS Pro at the moment. I wouldn't mind seeing such a capability, especially since there seems to be some sort of standard for it... _________________________________________________________________________ "7 Habits of Internet-Savvy Companies" <http://www.r8ix.com/7Habits.html> WordPerfect/Mac & MacTalk Mailing Lists <http://www.r8ix.com/lists.html> _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_

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