Zone transfer from non-standard port

Re: Zone transfer from non-standard port

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Hi,

> No. Bind doesn't have a way to do this, as far as I know.

Chris is right that you can't configure this in QuickDNS but if you
open a terminal session on your slave server and open the options file
for the zone in an editor you can configure BIND to transfer the zone
from a non-standard port (i.e. not from 53). For the zone foo.example
the options file would be "/var/named/conf/zoneopt/foo.example.opt"

The masters substatement should look something like:

masters { 1.2.3.4;};

You can change it to:

masters port 5353 { 1.2.3.4;};

if you need to connect to port 5353 for the zone transfer. Or if you
have multiple masters each listening on it's own port you can do the
following:

masters { 1.2.3.4 port 5353; 5.6.7.8 port 5053;};

Of course the default port is 53 so if you do not specify a port the
slave will use 53.

If you make any modifications to the options you need to reload the
name-server. To do that just select the server in the Manager window
in QuickDNS Manager and select "File->Reload". You should also note
that if you modify the options for "foo.example" in the terminal window
and add the port option, you will not see any master servers in the
"Options" dialog in the QuickDNS Manager. Don't worry, the master
servers are there and this still works.

Hope this helps,
Sigfus

>
> You'd have to set up a mirror port on some IP address you own, and
> configure your server to get zone transfers from that address instead.
> And no, I can't help you figure out how to set up a mirror port.
> (Maybe xinetd.conf, or Linux' iptables)
> ____________________________________________________________________
> Chris Buxton Men & Mice
> Customer Support Specialist Making DNS Easy
>
> At 10:47 AM -0800 3/25/04, Jeffrey Sessler wrote:
>> Is it possible to configure QuickDNS Pro 4.6.1 on Mac OS X 10.3.3 to
>> Zone transfer from a non-standard port? I'm a secondary for a domain
>> and
>> the DNS server I need to get the zone from is running on a
>> non-standard
>> port.
>>
>> Jeff
>
>
>

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