About IXFR zone transfer

[Iñaki Baz Castillo]

2009/7/30 Sam Trenholme <strenholme.usenet at gmail.com>:
> RTFM.  But, since you didn't, I'll help you.

Thanks. The fact is that I did a search on the main documents
appearing in the project page "Documentation" link:
  http://www.maradns.org/notes.html

These are:
  http://www.maradns.org/tutorial/man.maradns.html
  http://www.maradns.org/tutorial/man.mararc.html

NAPTR and IXFR words don't appear there.

Also, NAPTR keyword doesn't appear in the PDF:
  http://www.maradns.org/download/manpage_reference.pdf

And the turorial:
  http://www.maradns.org/tutorial/tutorial.html
contains a lot of pages so it's not very feasibe to open each one and
look for some words.


Please, understand that I'm looking for a DNS server. I was doing a
fast search reading the basic documentation of various DNS servers.

It's however the first RTFM I receive in my life.

I would suggest you a "Features" section in your web listing the
supported features (a short description). IMHO it would be very useful
when somebody is choosing a software and has various options.


> Does MaraDNS implement IXFR zone transfer?
>
> http://www.maradns.org/tutorial/man.zoneserver.html
>
> IXFR requests are incremental zone transfers, meaning that the DNS server
> should only display records changed since the last IXFR request. *zoneserver
> *, however, treats an IXFR as if it were an AXFR request, outputting all of
> the records for the zone in question.
>
> - Does MaraDNS support SRV and NAPTR reigsters?
>
>
> http://www.maradns.org/tutorial/man.csv2.html
>
> An SRV record stores a "service" definition. This record has four fields:
> Priority, weight, port, and target. For more information, please refer to
> RFC 2782. Example:
>
> _http._tcp.% SRV 0 0 80 a.% ~
>
> NAPTR records have untested support in the testing release MaraDNS 1.3.13,
> and are supported via the RAW record in 1.3.07.09:
>
> The RAW record is a special meta-record that allows any otherwise
> unsupported record type to be stored in a csv2 zone file.
>
> - Can MaraDNS server run on a port diffferent than 53 (for testing
>> purposes).
>
>
> http://www.maradns.org/tutorial/man.mararc.html:
>
> dns_port
>
> This is the port that MaraDNS listens on. This is usually 53 (the default
> value), but certain unusual MaraDNS setups (such as when resolving dangling
> CNAME records on but a single IP) may need to have a different value for
> this.
>


Thanks a lot for all this useful help.



>> - Is there any web interface to manage MaraDNS? I think there is not, but
>> asking is free :)
>>
>
> No.
>
> Asking may be free, but answers are only free on the MaraDNS mailing list.

Don't worry, I'm really used to internet maillists, I don't send
private mails to software authors asking for private free support.


Best regards.



-- 
Iñaki Baz Castillo
<ibc at aliax.net>