Re: AXFR from Bind oddities

On 12 April 2010 16:36, DAve <[email protected]> wrote:
> Chris Pugh wrote:
>> As djb jimself states, there are better methods. the nost obvious
>> being rsync ( over SSH ).
>
> The server I am querying is a Bind server, I cannot use rsync as they
> have no data file for me to pick up, only zones files.

.. which *are* data files.

> I do not have faith that the zone files will be placed/named consistently.

Maybe you should encourage them to make it so? ;o)

>Using AXFR guarantees that what the client sees from their Bind server
> is all I am  picking up for my server.

Which in reality you're not, though I understand what you mean.  It just
seems a lot of hoops to have to jump through...

Regards,


Chris.