Zone Transfer Security Settings

The default is to not allow zone transfers because the Allow zone transfers option checkbox is disabled.

Zone transfer security settings. 1292003 Right-click on the zone whose zone transfers you want to restrict choose Properties and click on the Zone Transfers tab. The portion of the database that is replicated is a zone. 3172004 One should configure the master DNS server to allow zone transfers only from secondary slave DNS servers but this is often not implemented.

882019 Check the primary server to see whether its refusing to send the transfer for security. 9272004 A zone transfer uses the Transmission Control Protocol TCP for transport and takes the form of a clientserver transaction. If the server restricts zone transfers to a list of servers such as those listed on the Name Servers tab of the zone properties make sure that the secondary server is on that list.

The Zone Transfers tab as shown in Figure 642 is used to configure which DNS servers the master zone will allow to transfer its zone database. Zone transfers synchronize primary and secondary DNS server zones. To disable zone transfers clear the Allow zone transfers check box.

Internet Explorer automatically assigns all websites to a security zone. So best practice is to restrict Zone transfers. For example following example uses host command to request zone transfer.

I allow Zone transfers to Only the following servers. Very few others have a need to do so. By changing the security settings you can customize how Internet Explorer helps protect your PC from potentially harmful or malicious web content.

Zone transfer comes in two flavors full opcode AXFR and incremental IXFR. If it occurs within a zone entry it applies only to that zone. If you get a long list of results that look like the records within your domain then you know zone transfers are enabled successfully at least to the IP of your desktop IP address.