Re: rsync vs. axfr-clarify (was: in support of axfr-clarify)

[Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>]

this discussion puts me in mind of the following text:

> RFC 1034             Domain Concepts and Facilities        November 1987
> 
> 4.3.5. Zone maintenance and transfers
> 
> Part of the job of a zone administrator is to maintain the zones at all
> of the name servers which are authoritative for the zone.  When the
> inevitable changes are made, they must be distributed to all of the name
> servers.  While this distribution can be accomplished using FTP or some
> other ad hoc procedure, the preferred method is the zone transfer part
> of the DNS protocol.

rsync is thus accounted for.  unless this thread intends to modify 1034's
intent, which i've seen no evidence of, can you please take it to
djbdns-workers@, or to some other implementation-specific forum?

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