So there is no way for the slave to pull the records directly from the
master? I have to manually add all secondary names?
Regards,
André Cameron
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From: "Mike Burger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 1:34 AM
Subject: Re: DNS BIND 9 Help Please
> If I'm understanding you, correctly, you can't.
>
> The slave has to know that it is a slave for that domain, and the only way
> to do so is to tell it so in /etc/named.conf.
>
> You also must tell the primary that the slave exists, by placing an NS
> record in the domain's zone file, pointing at the secondary/slave...for
> two reasons:
>
> 1) The primary will be telling the world that the slave is also
> authoritative for the domain, in spite of what the NIC record says (do a
> whois on your domain, and then a "dig in ns" on your domain...sometimes,
> you get different infor in the two results).
>
> 2) By telling the primary, in its zone file, what its secondary servers
> are, you allow the primary to "notify" the secondary/slave that there's
> been an update in the zone, and then the secondary/slave will pull the new
> zone file down, on its own.
>
> If sites were able to be told, from remote, that suddenly they were to be
> a secondary name server, without someone actually logging in, modifying
> the configuration, and telling it it was secondary, there could and
> probably would be rampant abuse.
>
> If it were possible to do so (and I'm glad it's not), then I could simply
> point all my domains at your servers, telling them that they're now
> slaves/secondary name servers, and I could point a ton of traffic at your
> systems...that wouldn't be very friendly, now, would it? <G>
>
> On Wed, 22 May 2002, André Cameron wrote:
>
> > > zone "domain.name.com" {
> > > type slave;
> > > masters {
> > > xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx;
> > > };
> > > };
> >
> > How can I get the slave to automatically pull the zone files from the
master
> > verses me manually adding the slave record every time I add a domain?
>
>
>
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