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

["D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>]

Derek Atkins writes:
> Setting up axfr is simple.  I list my secondaries, and they just say
> "master <my-ip-adderess>".  There.  Done.  End of configuration.  How
> could setting up a secondary be any easier than that?

What do you do when you change named.conf---for example, to add a zone?
You have to copy the changes to the secondary. With server replication,
this is handled automatically.

> each server hosts a different set of zones.  My primary and secondary
> servers are not mirrors of each other.  They are not administrated by
> the same set of people.

That configuration is much less popular than you appear to realize. See
http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/third-party.html for further comments.

> out-of-band (rsync)

Your notion of ``out-of-band'' is religious nonsense. Does it frighten
you that the FTP protocol uses more than one port?

---D. J. Bernstein, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics,
Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago

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