Configuring a Name Server to Accommodate a Slave Running BIND 4

8.4.1 Problem

You need to configure a name server to accommodate a BIND 4 slave.

8.4.2 Solution

On a BIND 9 name server, you may need to configure the name server to send old-style, one-answer zone transfers to the slave. Add a server statement specifying the slave's address, and use the transfer-format substatement to set the transfer format to one-answer:

server 192.168.0.2 {
 transfer-format one-answer;
};

BIND 8 name servers send one-answer zone transfers by default, so there's no need to add a server statement especially for a BIND 4 slave -- unless you've changed the default in a transfer-format options substatement.

You'll also need to avoid adding resource records to zones that were introduced after the version of BIND that the slave runs. In particular, watch out for SRV records, introduced in BIND 4.9.5.

8.4.3 Discussion

Since the ISC has deprecated the use of any version of BIND 4, you should also prod the administrator of the BIND 4 slave to upgrade.

8.4.4 See Also

"More efficient zone transfers" in Chapter 10 of DNS and BIND, and the ISC's BIND pages, at http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/, for recommended versions of BIND.

Getting Started

Zone Data

BIND Name Server Configuration

Electronic Mail

BIND Name Server Operations

Delegation and Registration

Security

Interoperability and Upgrading

Resolvers and Programming

Logging and Troubleshooting

IPv6



DNS & BIND Cookbook
DNS & BIND Cookbook
ISBN: 0596004109
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 220
Authors: Cricket Liu

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