Can my BIND 4 name server transfer a zone from a BIND 8 name server?

Answered Tue, 16 Jul 2002

> Yes I have a question...
> Is a BIND 4.X DNS server able to be secondary for a domain managed by a
> BIND 8.X server ?
> Does the zone transfer work ?

Yes, as long as the zone doesn't contain any new types of resource records--
newer than the version of BIND 4 the slave is running.

> I'm not sure it will be the best question of the week but... :-)

That's perfectly okay.

cricket