SCP speed question

[David Bandel]

On 1/6/07, Matthew Carpenter <mcarpenter at intelguardians.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 06 January 2007 03:08, Bill Campbell wrote:
> > I often use rsync in its daemon mode without ssh for cases where
> > the security of the data isn't critical.  I would rather do that,
> > particularly for things that run from cron, than deal with the
> > issues of ssh keys without proper pass phrases.
>
> Again, I'm failing to see the issues.  Could you explain more?  ssh keys can
> be created without passphrases for purposes just like this.
>
> > >Doesn't djbdns provide actual DNS zone transfers with IP and/or key-based
> > >restrictions?
> >
> > It does, but it's far easier to basically ``cat'' a bunch of zone
> > files together, and rsync the combined files to secondaries.
>
> Again, that doesn't make sense to me.  Perhaps it gives you more control, but
> how could it be easier?  I admit, I've only ever used BIND for DNS, so I
> could be out in left field, but DNS has a propagation (hey there David ;)

keep pushing that button, Matt.  Primaries can notify secondaries of a
change in a zone file, but that hardly amounts to propagation.  The
secondaries still have to request a zone transfer.  It amounts to --
hey secondaries, timeout zone "foo", I just got an update.  No actual
changes are propagated to the secondaries.


> infrastructure that is made just so that you don't have to do what you're
> doing.
>
> I'm really not trying to be antagonistic, I just don't understand.
>

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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