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coredns/middleware/secondary/README.md
Miek Gieben 9fb266aebe middleware/secondary: multiple fixes (#745)
Fix transferring the zone from a master and the matching of notifies
to source and dst IP addresses.

Add `upstream` keyword as well, because it is needed for the same
reasons as in the *file* middlware.
Add some dire warning about upstream in the readme of both middlewares.

Out of band testing, hidden by net build tag was added. Integration
testing still needs to be setup.
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# secondary
*secondary* enables serving a zone retrieved from a primary server.
## Syntax
~~~
secondary [ZONES...]
~~~
* **ZONES** zones it should be authoritative for. If empty, the zones from the configuration block
are used. Note that without a remote address to *get* the zone from, the above is not that useful.
A working syntax would be:
~~~
secondary [zones...] {
transfer from ADDRESS
transfer to ADDRESS
upstream ADDRESS...
}
~~~
* `transfer from` specifies from which address to fetch the zone. It can be specified multiple times;
if one does not work, another will be tried.
* `transfer to` can be enabled to allow this secondary zone to be transferred again.
* `upstream` defines upstream resolvers to be used resolve external names found (think CNAMEs)
pointing to external names. This is only really useful when CoreDNS is configured as a proxy, for
normal authoritative serving you don't need *or* want to use this.
## Examples
~~~
secondary example.org {
transfer from 10.0.1.1
transfer from 10.1.2.1
}
~~~