Re: multiple slave zones pointing to same file?

2010-10-03 Thread Gordon A. Lang
- From: online-reg online-...@enigmedia.com To: bind-users@lists.isc.org Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2010 9:47 AM Subject: Re: multiple slave zones pointing to same file? IME the best way to do this on a Unix'y system is to use hard links. That way if you ever need to change one of them

Re: multiple slave zones pointing to same file?

2010-10-03 Thread online-reg
The slave files do not carry the @ I presume you are using on the master -- the zone-transfer data includes the specific domain names -- so the slave files can't be shared even if they could be shared. Maybe you can write a program that translates the slave data into the sharable format, and

Re: multiple slave zones pointing to same file?

2010-10-02 Thread John Wingenbach
Simply set the file option to the same name on the slave server. On 10/2/2010 2:59 PM, Doug Barton wrote: On 10/2/2010 11:16 AM, online-reg wrote: Hi All: I’m building a new Bind 9.7.1-P2 slave server and am taking an opportunity to review my conf files. I have a number of zones on the

Re: multiple slave zones pointing to same file?

2010-10-02 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 58f2f2eb90f24743a050575c87c7c...@nyoffice.enigmedia.local, online -reg writes: Hi All: I’m building a new Bind 9.7.1-P2 slave server and am taking an opportunity to review my conf files. I have a number of zones on the primary that all point to the same zone configuration

Re: multiple slave zones pointing to same file?

2010-10-02 Thread John Wingenbach
Doesn't support it? Since when does named not allow you to use the same file name for more then one zone? I've been doing that for several years. -- John Wingenbach On 10/2/2010 6:49 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: In message58f2f2eb90f24743a050575c87c7c...@nyoffice.enigmedia.local, online -reg

Re: multiple slave zones pointing to same file?

2010-10-02 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 4ca7b926.9070...@wingenbach.org, John Wingenbach writes: Doesn't support it? Correct. It is not supported. Don't take the fact that it doesn't complain as evidence that this is supported practice. The only place where shared file use is supported is in static master zones.

Re: multiple slave zones pointing to same file?

2010-10-02 Thread Doug Barton
On 10/2/2010 3:15 PM, online-reg wrote: IME the best way to do this on a Unix'y system is to use hard links. That way if you ever need to change one of them to be its own file it's trivial to do so. Also IME, BIND doesn't react well to having multiple slave zones sharing the same file, but that