On Mon, 19 Feb 1996, Jon Zeeff wrote:
I'd like to see a DNS xfer protocol that allowed secondaries to be completely updated from a master - ie, the master could send all types of updates to the secondary site - mater ip address, domains to handle, etc.
Hmm...so a secondary DNS server would be told by another which primaries it should trust? Sounds like trouble to me. As does allowing remote creation of zones. This should not be part of a DNS standard. Setting aside the security aspect, how would this be implemented? Would the secondary server poll the primary at intervals to determine how it should reconfigure itself? Or switch to a "server push" method of transfer? You're better off setting up a seperate subsystem to manage the configurations. // Matt Zimmerman Chief of System Management NetRail, Inc. // mdz@netrail.net sales@netrail.net // (703) 524-4800 [voice] (703) 524-4802 [data] (703) 534-5033 [fax]