One phrase, sir: "WTF?!"
You fail to make sense. -Tech On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > > jernej horvat wrote: > > > > [ snip ] > > > And this is what djb has to say for zone transfers :-) > > > > "Zone transfers are an archaic alternative mechanism for copying DNS > > information." > > > > http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/faq/axfrdns.html#what > > ``Zone transfers are an archaic alternative mechanism for copying DNS > information. Instead of immediately sending new data to the slaves, you > run a zone-transfer service that accepts periodic connections from the > slaves; your users complain while they're waiting for the slaves to > check for new data. The zone-transfer protocol isn't a modular > file-transfer system; it is an ad-hoc system tied to the details of DNS. > The protocol has terrible compression and no security. Every new zone on > the master requires manual reconfiguration of the slaves. Zone transfers > lose all information about client differentiation and scheduled record > changes.'' > > It is always amazing to me how *intelligent* people try to make their > point by taking other people's words out of context . . . > > Notice, that bind, current or not, has no answers to djb's concerns, as > expressed in his complete paragraph ;> > > [ snip ] > > -- > > Best Regards, > > mds > mds resource > 888.250.3987 > > Dare to fix things before they break . . . > > Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we > think we know. The more I know, the more I know I don't know . . . > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
