[Pdns-users] minor AXFR oddity?

[bert hubert]

On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 09:32:50AM -0400, Derrik Pates wrote:
> I'm working on final tweaking of a dedicated box running PowerDNS, with
> custom management software (PHP4 + XML-RPC + HTML/JavaScript frontend)
> so our clients will be able to manage their own domains. I'm a week or
> less from deploying this machine, and so far I'm very pleased with what
> PowerDNS has to offer. I've just noticed one minor oddity.
> 
> I was testing AXFR using the 'host' command, and noticed that when I do
> a 'host -l -t any [domain]', I get the SOA record twice - once at the
> start of the AXFR, once at the end. I've never seen this kind of
> behavior with zone transfers before. Is this normal? Is it correct
> behavior? Is it even worth worrying about?

It is normal, try it with another server. The second SOA terminates the
AXFR. 

-l -t any is somewhat double btw! not sure what 'host' will make of that.

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