Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 20:45:25 +0200 From: John Morgan Salomon <john@zog.net> To: Jeremy Gaddis <jeremy@gaddis.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BIND 9 Message-ID: <3F1ED7C5.5000500@zog.net> In-Reply-To: <1058980661.3981.0.camel@jupiter.main.gaddis.org> References: <8AE4DA75-BCC1-11D7-9DA1-000A957FF666@pacbell.net> <87d6g1zwt7.fsf@pooh.honeypot.net> <1058980661.3981.0.camel@jupiter.main.gaddis.org>
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Unless you have a different instances listening on different interfaces/IPs
as master/slave for the same domain if you only have one machine--some
registrars will not permit master & slave on the same IP.
Or can BIND9 handle this in a single instance?
Cheers,
-John
Jeremy Gaddis wrote:
>On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 23:33, Kirk Strauser wrote:
>
>
>>At 2003-07-23T03:55:47Z, Tony Sterrett <tonyste@pacbell.net> writes:
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>>
>>>I'm trying to configure both a master and slave DNS on the same
>>>machine. My approach is to run the master by setting named_enable="YES"
>>>and it will use the config file in /etc/named. To start the slave I will
>>>In rc.local and it would use the config files in /etc/named/slave. Does
>>>this seems ok? Is there a better way.
>>>
>>>
>>This seems to come up every now and then. Before we start, is there any
>>reason you want to have two seperate named process running, instead of
>>having one process serving as master to some domains and slave to others?
>>
>>
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>No, it's generally considered {easier,better,more manageable,...} to
>only have one instance of BIND. BIND can be master for some domains
>and slave for others, so there really is no need.
>
>j.
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