Re: [DNSOP] Adding more example configurations to draft-ietf-dnsop-7706bis

[Joe Abley <[e-mail]>]

On 2 Mar 2019, at 01:17, Wes Hardaker <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Michał Kępień <[e-mail]> writes:
> 
>>    zone "." {
>>        type mirror;
>>    };
> 
> Cool feature, and thanks for adding it.  It'll certainly make writing
> LocalRoot config updates easier.
> 
> Questions though:

https://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/cur/9.13/doc/arm/Bv9ARM.ch05.html#zone_statement_grammar

The zone grammar specifies an allow-notify stanza for zone/type mirror:

> zone string [ class ] {
> 	type mirror;
> 	allow-notify { address_match_element; ... };

Zones can be transferred from an explicit set of transfer masters, but there is also a default:

> A default list of primary servers for the IANA root zone is built into named and thus its mirroring can be enabled using the following configuration:
> 
> zone "." {
>         type mirror;
> };
> 
> In order to set up mirroring of any other zone, an explicit list of primary servers needs to be provided using the masters option (see the section called “masters Statement Grammar” for details).


Joe