Good answer (AXFR/IXFR).

Thing to note:
BIND 9 was just put into the OpenBSD tree as the default
(more or less, it will be by 3.2 if things work out).

Not sure why I'd use BIND 8 at this point.  The ISC
isn't too interested in working on it, they just make
vixie do maintainance.  It's set for EOL (ok, not threatening
in open source, but it's over).

Ponder BIND 9.

Quoting netbsd@libkvm.org (netbsd@libkvm.org):
> for zone transfers there are currently 2 methods:
> AXFR for full zone transfer
> IXFR for incremental zone 
> 
> as a master, ixfr is chosen for dynamic updated master zones,
> as a slave, ixfr by default 
> 
> but i see this in bind9, i'm not sure for 8, check in the logs
> or in the docs.
> 
> julien
> 
> On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 03:02:01PM +0000, Carlo Smith wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Does bind send incrementals for updates or is it full tranfer every time. I 
> > see when learning the zones it says full transfer but later no mentioning 
> > anymore ...
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
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