Zone Transfer

• The act of transferring a zone

• Typically from a Primary to Secondary

  • Secondary checks SOA on Primary every REFRESH seconds

    • Automatically
  • If serial number on Primary is higher, secondary gets copy of zone file

• NSLOOKUP (debugging tool) also does zone transfers (using ls -d)

• Performed over TCP port 53

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