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ricky_paulus_gi
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Mar 08, 2019

Port should be opened to allow an AXFR/IXFR

Hi everyone,   is there anybody know " Which port should be opened to allow an AXFR/IXFR connection to be established to a DNS listener?"   It would be great if you have reference link for me t...
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Rico
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Mar 11, 2019

TCP port 53 from here. Zone transfers need to ensure that all the data reached its destination so that a secondary DNS server can be sure it is serving out the right records. With UDP, there would be no way to know if the zone file transfer completed properly.