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@zachsmith1 zachsmith1 commented Jan 7, 2026

This enhancement proposes a model for Primary and Secondary DNS Zone transfers. It introduces DNSZone (Primary/Secondary roles) and TSIGKey (with zoneRef ownership) to require TSIG for Secondary imports and enable optional outbound transfers for Primaries. Transfers run on a dedicated xfr1 transfer plane while anycast edges remain serve-only, improving security and multi-tenant safety with a default-deny posture and presence-implies-intent config. The goal is a secure, reliable, and maintainable foundation for DNS at Datum that maps to PowerDNS initially and remains provider-agnostic over time.

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drewr commented Jan 7, 2026

Thanks! What's the upstream ticket for this?

@drewr drewr added this to the Datum Cloud 1.1 milestone Jan 7, 2026
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drewr commented Jan 7, 2026

Will track release via the PR for now. @brian-toresdahl-datum you good with this being prioritized this month?

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Definitely.

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Something I don't see covered in this doc is how DNS records are created for Zones that are configured as secondaries. Would we reconcile all of the records that are created through the zone transfer and replicate them into Datum's control plane so a user knows all of the records we've received?

Also curious what type of status information we can offer to consumers about zone transfers so they understand the health. Status information may be a good argument to make zone transfers a separate resource so its status isn't conflated with general zone status.

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