RFC 1995:Incremental Zone Transfer in DNS
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incremental zone transfer


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... If incremental zone transfer is not available, the entire zone is returned. The first and the last RR of the response is the SOA ...
... If incremental zone transfer is available, one or more difference sequences is returned. The list of difference sequences is preceded and followed by a copy of the server's current version ...



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