Re: jnamed zone transfer fails

[Brian W. <bwe...@xb...>]

On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Hontvari Jozsef wrote:

> I am trying to configure a slave jnamed server. I can do an AXFR request
> using DNSJAVA dig to the master server which is also a jnamed instance.
> The slave jnamed instance cannot start.
>
> This condition throws the exception in Zone.fromXFR
>
>    if (!xfrin.isAXFR())
>        throw new IllegalArgumentException("zones can only be " +
>                           "created from AXFRs");
>
> As I understand the javadoc of isAXFR() it is related to the answer
> message. However following the short code with and without debugger and
> I cannot see anywhere that a message was sent at all at this point.
>
> Btw. I have been successfully using jnamed as a locale dnsbl server for
> a year. Now I plan to setup a master slave configuration for our
> *unused* domains. I know you don't recommend it for production uses, and
> this is not really production. DNS servers are required for the
> registration of the domains, and I don't want to install two bind
> instances. It would open a new attack vector for a small benefit.

Sorry, but the documentation clearly states:

         jnamed should not be used for production, and should probably
         not be used for testing.  If the above documentation is not enough,
         please do not ask for more, because it really should not be used.

Brian