On October 14, 2004 12:05, "J. Rafael S�nchez" wrote: > I configured my main dns server quite some time ago, and I thought I > read somewhere that in order to have a secondary dns server, it needed > to be configured at the same time as the primary is being configured...
completely false.
> Or can I configured
> a secondary dns when the first is already configured and running for
> quite some time.
of course. you'll need to restart the primary's named after you add the
necessary config changes, of course.. see below.
> I 've read that I need a named.boot file which would perhaps look like
> this on the 'secondary' server. I guess this file would go in /etc
> somewhere?
what you want is to allow transfers from the main dns. so, in the zone config
for the domain you'll want something like:
zone "mydomain" in {
type master;
file "mydomain";
allow-transfer { <address of secondary goes here> };
};
then on the secondary, you need to set it up something like:
zone "mydomain" {
type slave;
file "mydomain";
masters{ <address of primary goes here> };
};
restart the primary's named first so it know to allow transfers to that
secondary. then restart the secondary's named...
btw, O'Reilly makes a really good book on DNS and BIND
--
Aaron J. Seigo
Society is Geometric
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