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Support for outgoing incremental zone transfers (IXFR) #300

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Cascade does not currently support IXFR queries in its DNS servers (it does support consuming IXFRs from upstream servers). Outgoing IXFR support would reduce network bandwidth and improve efficiency -- it may even be useful for reviewing zones. This could be implemented in two ways:

  • Maintain the existing infrastructure within Cascade and internally diff consecutive published zones to generate IXFRs. This would improve network bandwidth but slow down zone publishing.

  • Wait for Cascade to implement incremental signing (Incremental signing #299), which would improve the internal infrastructure and make fully incremental operation (including efficiently computing IXFR output) possible.

This also relates to #295 -- zones with multiple versions could be persisted using IXFR outputs, which would save disk space and improve efficiency.

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