BIND zones and Windows standard zones use the zone transfer mechanism. By default, zones stored in Active Directory do not use zone transfers unless there is a need to transfer zone data to a DNS server that is not a domain controller.
Address Manager imports the Windows Zone Transfer setting as the Allow Zone
Transfers DNS deployment option at the zone level. The following table
represents the different examples of the way in which the Zone Transfers setting is
configured in Windows and the way in which it is imported into Address
Manager.
Windows: Zone Transfers setting | Address Manager: Allow Zone Transfers deployment options |
---|---|
Check box clear | None |
Check box selected—Only to servers listed on the Name Servers tab (no additional severs listed in tab) | None |
Check box selected—Only to servers listed on the Name Servers tab (additional servers listed in tab) | IP addresses of servers from the Name Servers tab |
Check box selected—To Any Server | Any |
Check box selected—Only to the following servers | Specified IP addresses |
Note: If you do not configure the Allow Zone Transfers option on Address Manager it is
disabled in Windows during deployment and zone transfers are not allowed.
The Allow Zone Transfer deployment option can be set at the following levels:
- Configuration
- Server GroupAttention: Server Groups only support BlueCat DNS/DHCP Servers.
- Server
- View
- Zone
- IP block
- IP network
To configure the Allow Zone Transfers option: