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, Andr� 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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