Re: BIND9 transferring zones

[Warwick Brown <moonman@linux-moonman.net>]

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> > disadvantages:
> >
> > cannot transfer the zone to another system when backing up zone files
> > using dig or nslookup
>
> You can of course just allow a handful of servers to do transfers, i.e.
> off-site DNS backup etc.

of course, how silly of me (tis too early for thinking!)

there is an alternative way of doing things, that is to run a "split brain" 
service, where internal and external views differ which will allow 
information to be gleamed with ease from inside the network, while 
restricting the outside world to 1 result per query etc......

regards

waz