On 2013-12-06, at 12:11 , Chris Thompson <c...@cam.ac.uk> wrote: > > The sense in which BIND "forces use of TCP" is that when it gets an > IXFR request over UDP, it always just replies with the current SOA. > It doesn't bother to work out whether an incremental transfer is > possible and if so whether it would fit into the UDP payload. > > Of course, if the client's supplied SOA serial is the same, this > response indicates that no zone transfer is needed.
Yeah, the mechanism is clear. I was curious about the why rather than the how. _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
