From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 23 11:35:52 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D4C837B401 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2003 11:35:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from yt.88.net (h-66-134-174-190.NYCMNY83.covad.net [66.134.174.190]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A302A43F85 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2003 11:35:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@zog.net) Received: from zog.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by yt.88.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CF4897; Wed, 23 Jul 2003 18:35:50 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <3F1ED7C5.5000500@zog.net> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 20:45:25 +0200 From: John Morgan Salomon Organization: ZOG Consulting Ltd. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030528 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeremy Gaddis References: <8AE4DA75-BCC1-11D7-9DA1-000A957FF666@pacbell.net> <87d6g1zwt7.fsf@pooh.honeypot.net> <1058980661.3981.0.camel@jupiter.main.gaddis.org> In-Reply-To: <1058980661.3981.0.camel@jupiter.main.gaddis.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BIND 9 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 18:35:52 -0000 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 writes: >> >> >> >>>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? >> >> > >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. > > >