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Initial Zone Transfer

Applies To:
RouteThis platform is designed to provide reliable, high performance, and secure DNS service. This DNS service consists of zone administration, traffic management, and custom routing policies.
SecondaryThe Managed (Primary) or Secondary DNS module allows DNS zone management, authoritative DNS for zones managed outside of our network, and traffic distribution to multiple servers via load balancing or failover configurations.

The following diagram provides an overview of the process through which a zone is transferred to our Route solution.

The following steps describe this process in more detail.

  1. An administrator creates a secondary zone within Route.
  2. The Route transfer system requests a zone transfer for that zone from a master name server.
  3. The master name server performs a full zone transfer (AXFR) for the requested secondary zone.
  4. A read-only copy of that zone is created within Route. Glue records for our vanity name servers are automatically added to that zone. The resulting zone is known as a secondary zone.
  5. Our Route transfer system will then deploy the secondary zone to our Route name servers.
  6. DNS queries must now be directed to our Route name servers. This step requires an administrator to update the appropriate domain registrar to point the zone to our vanity name servers.
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