[dns-wg] Re: rev delegation robot and selection of NS to pull zone from

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 08:14:34PM +0100, Anand Buddhdev wrote:

> The configuration you describe above isn't illegal. However, the RIPE
> NCC's provisioning system won't be able to cope with it. Currently,
> there's no way to explicitly provide a list of master servers that zone
> transfers should be attempted from.
> 
> One solution is to list a server in the MNAME field which will provide
> zone transfers. Alternatively, you can choose not to use ns.ripe.net as

while the latter is probably the most pragmatic approach, it could interfere
with other requirements.  Depending on how widespread this issue is,
the WG might also consider to propose a new attribute for the domain:
object to denominate the (list of) AXFR source(s).

-Peter