Hello, On May 24, 2012, at 17:58 , a b wrote:
> Can anyone tell me why this needs to be explicitly set in the > pdns.conf file, when we have a relational database as the backend > storage and the database contains all the information required > for pdns_server to know whether he is to be a slave or a master? One reason is that this supports setups of the following type: - ns01 is a powerdns machine in slave mode, slaving domains from other machines. - ns01 stores all slaved zones in a database (MySQL, Oracle, etc.) which is replicated to one or more database slaves - ns02/ns03 use these database slaves in readonly mode. In this case, all three name servers see 'type=SLAVE' on many domains in the domains table, but only one of them should actually be slaving. Kind regards, -- Peter van Dijk Netherlabs Computer Consulting BV - http://www.netherlabs.nl/ _______________________________________________ Pdns-users mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.powerdns.com/mailman/listinfo/pdns-users
