[Pdns-users] Re: AXFR's in powerdns

Norbert Sendetzky norbert at linuxnetworks.de
Sun Jun 22 16:32:12 UTC 2003


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On Sunday 22 June 2003 16:58, you wrote:
> > Well, perhaps it should be named "enable-afxr", but that depends
> > on the original intention Bert had (intention up to now: axfr is
> > allowed by default to everyone).
>
> disable-axfr implies that axfr is disabled. That is, noone can
> axfr, because the functionality is turned off. enable-axfr implies
> that the axfr functionality is turned on, but maybe or maybe not
> subject to access control. Neither describes what actually happens.

No, disable-axfr implies that it is enabled by default, but you can
disable it if you want to. This is because default values of config
variables are mostly "no", especially if you name something
"disable-...".


Norbert

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