From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Aug 2 12:52:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from ethereal.backchat.co.za (firewall.backchat.co.za [196.25.19.86]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F03437BA8A for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 12:52:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from natey@backchat.co.za) Received: from natey (helo=localhost) by ethereal.backchat.co.za with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 13K4W4-0005RY-00; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 21:49:24 +0200 Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 21:49:24 +0200 (SAST) From: Natey on IRC To: Erin Cc: 'Brian Reichert' , freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Secondary BIND server. In-Reply-To: <002101bffcba$400be060$e815820a@erin-laptop.sdccd.cc.ca.us> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Write a perl script that ssh's into the secondary server and runs another perl script on the other boxxie that creates the secondary zone info in the named.conf and runs ndc restart and you are a for away :) On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Erin wrote: > > - your primary server's zone file lists both your name > > servers in the SOA > > - your primary server's been told it's master for that zone > > - your slave server's been told it's a slave for that zone (and > > who the master is) > > > > Then when you start the secondary server up, it will automatically > > get the zone file from the primary. > > > > If you modify the zone, the primary will notify the secondary of > > the change, and the secondary will get a new copy of the zone file. > > > > This does mean that you inform have to infrom both servers of the > > domain in question. If you have a fluid set of domains, your new > > question becomes 'how can I propegate changes to my named.conf > > file?'. > > I knew what I wanted to say in my head, it just never makes it to the email > that way. :-) > > ok, If I add the domain into the named.conf and set it up on the primary, > what I would like to do is have it automatically set its self up on the > secondary in the named.conf and then get a cop of the zone file. > > Does this make sense? > > > Thanks again, > > Erin > > > mailto:kahn@deadbbs.com > http://www.deadbbs.com > http://www.fortenberry.net > > > "Can i dial 1-255-255-255255 and make every phone in the world ring?" > > -- Tanuki To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message