I apologize for the offtopicness, but this seems like a problem other people here would have solved before.

A friend of mine asked me to help write some scripts that could parse the zone files of a "master" DNS server, to get a list of all zones that it is a master of, and then pass the data off to scripts running on multiple "slave" DNS servers to update their zone files to indicate that they should slave them off of that master.

All of which sounds fine and dandy -- but it sounds to me like this would be a common enough situation, that someone somewhere would have incorperated into the DNS protocol a way to query a server for the list of zones it is an authority of.

Now I'm not much of a DNS guru, but I've been skimming the docs, and I can't seem to find anything like that. Am I missing something?

In reply to OT: DNS question: query server for all zones it is authoritative by hossman

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