The master will send the files (with all the host records) when the secondary requests a zone xfr. Mike's talking about what you need to do to configure the primary and secondaries so they can talk with each other and not any old secondary someone may decide to create.
<-- Scott -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Andr� Cameron Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 7:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: DNS BIND 9 Help Please 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, Andr� Cameron ԿԬ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Burger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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, 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? > > > > _______________________________________________ > Seawolf-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list > _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
