On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 23:52 -0400, Bill McGonigle wrote: > On Apr 29, 2005, at 10:48, Derek Martin wrote: > > > This is an excellent idea for a feature request. A slave should have > > the ability to contact a master and ask what zones it should slave, so > > that a minimal config can be installed without requiring any > > maintenance... > > That's a great idea. The list of slaveable zones could automatically > be generated by the server, in the case of bind, from 'allow-transfer' > lines. It would save considerable config time and improve > interoperability (imagine the horrors of getting an rsync script > working with a Microsoft DNS server). Done over DNSSEC it should be > secure enough. A lame-o approach might even create a magic zone file > that would be parsable on the other side as containing the list of > slaveable zones <ducks>.
> Of course you want this very optional in the case where you don't > control the master. > > Make it so. Thanks for all the comments. It appears that Bind9 can also set to cache zone lookups, which is not a perfect solution, but would be relatively easy to set up for short term. That way I can get it going, at least, until I have more time to do a "more proper" rsync/script solution. You'd think that after all this time Bind would already have a wildcard zone slave feature. I can't be the only one with this need. I'll keep you posted on what I discover, since this would be useful knowledge. Of course, don't stop the flow of ideas. 8-) -Fred _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
