The method with which a DNS server will share information about another for a zone that they are both authoratitive for.
Zone transfers cannot inject bad data into your system, however nasty people like to do zone transfers to find out all the machines you have so they can attack the more efficiently, this is why Zone Transfers are typically only permitted to trusted hosts.
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