[Pdns-users] Interestin g AXFR response

[Peter van Dijk]

Hello Ed,

On Dec 24, 2012, at 19:55 , Ed wrote:

> Running pdns 3.1 on Scientific Linux  6, 64 bit,  [ pdns from epel repo ] 
> 
> I'm getting a srtrange response to an AXFR request.  Pdns sends the zone okay but it has 2 SOA records in it.  One SOA record at the beginning of the zone and one SOA record at the end of the zone.  Both the SOA records match.
> 
> The command to retrieve the zone used was :  dig AXFR  zone.name  @name.server  ...  Bind doesn't do this.  Is this a bug or a feature ?

A zone transfer always has the SOA at the beginning and at the end. If your BIND does not do it, your BIND is broken!

Kind regards,
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Peter van Dijk
Netherlabs Computer Consulting BV - http://www.netherlabs.nl/