Re: DNS for beginners?

[eric-dated-1075869104.214bbab93fbb25@catastrophe.net]

On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 01:47:33 -0500, Chuck Yerkes proclaimed...

> Except for IPv6, incremental zone transfers, any sort
> of authenticated zone transfer, hell, zone transfers without
> scp, and a lack of DDNS if using it internally.
> 
> Oh, and I can back BIND9 with a SQL or LDAP server on the
> master rather than flat files if I want.
> 
> It's fast; it's really fast for caching and running internal.
> 
> A one of the secondaries I use runs it.  It's sort of a PITA in
> taht when I make a change, the BIND machines get a NOTIFY and pull
> the zone within seconds.  The DJBDNS box gets around to it in a
> few hours.  And we don't have a relationship where either of us
> have access to the others machines for copying files over.

Clearly you're either (a) illiterate, or (b) just lack a clue.

There's a wealth of resources out there on how to setup both
AXFR'ing through third party tools and through 3 line shell scripts.

I *do* agree that giving the original poster information they
weren't looking for is annoying, but please - get a clue before
posting your FUD.

Thanks.