Enabling Zone Transfers

[wdatkinson]

I need to enable zone transfer to a third-party DNS service. I've STF'd these forums and haven't really found what I'm looking for. I have confirmed that the third-party service is attempting the zone transfer and our name server is refusing it.

I know I can get bind to allow a zone transfer by doing the following:

allow-transfer{192.168.1.4; 172.16.1.5; };

The question is, does the enitre bind.conf file get overwritten by DA? I thought I read something somewhere that said it did not? I've searched through DA and don't find an option to customize the bind.conf file, I would have sworn the option used to be available.

What is the best way to include this directive in the bind.conf file on a permanent basis?

 

[loopforever]

I have not known named.conf to be overriden by DA. Zones are simply appended to the end of the file. The only time you're going to see named.conf wiped is if you explicitly grab it from http://www.directadmin.com/named.conf and overwrite your existing config.

So to answer your question, including that directive in your named.conf should be fine. DA won't overwrite that.