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[RFT] Zone AXFR Import Feature

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Linode Staff

This is a stand-alone testbench for testing the axfr (zone transfer) and parsing of the resulting zone. It uses named-xfer to pull the zone from a remote nameserver, parses the zone file, and then displays a dump of the data structure. It should be fairly obvious from the data dump if it worked correctly.

http://www.linode.com/dev/zone-xfer-testbench.cfm

You'll need to allow zone transfers from 67.18.92.50 for this to work.

It currently correctly parses most records, although I still need to test zones with SRV. If you've got a zone with SRV records, or some other unique zone, I'd appreciate a reply with the zone and the nameserver (or PM if you don't want to advertise it).

Thanks,

-Chris

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Linode Staff

Zone AXFR, parsing and importing should be working:

https://www.linode.com/members/dns/import_axfr.cfm

(There's also a link at the bottom of the "add domain" page.

-Chris

I'm testing out the DNS manager, and on trying the AXFR zone transfer, I find that it doesn't seem to have transferred my CNAMEs. Is this known?

[edit: I just manually added them by hand, so if you're seeing them there now, that's why.]

I've just tested this on one of my zones and can confirm that CNAMEs are not imported.

Linode Staff

OK. I've got your submissions saved off, so you may see a few more zone transfers as I debug this.

Thanks for the report.

-Chris

@caker:

OK. I've got your submissions saved off, so you may see a few more zone transfers as I debug this.

Eep, sorry, I had turned off AXFRs from Linode after doing that - I wanted to get an AXFR to another IP and the interface I use can only seem to handle one IP. I've just switched it back to 67.18.92.50, so you ought to be able to do AXFRs now. Sorry again!

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