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authorGravatar Miek Gieben <miek@miek.nl> 2021-06-11 19:54:49 +0200
committerGravatar GitHub <noreply@github.com> 2021-06-11 10:54:49 -0700
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plugin/secondary: doc updates (#4686)
Add retry behavior on startup and point to RFC 5936 Signed-off-by: Miek Gieben <miek@miek.nl>
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@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ With *secondary* you can transfer (via AXFR) a zone from another server. The ret
*not committed* to disk (a violation of the RFC). This means restarting CoreDNS will cause it to
retrieve all secondary zones.
+If the primary server(s) don't respond when CoreDNS is starting up, the AXFR will be retried
+indefinitely every 10s.
+
## Syntax
~~~
@@ -67,3 +70,4 @@ Only AXFR is supported and the retrieved zone is not committed to disk.
## See Also
See the *transfer* plugin to enable zone transfers _to_ other servers.
+And RFC 5936 detailing the AXFR protocol.