From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 22 21:23:10 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 130D037B401 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2003 21:23:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from webmail.unionavenue.net (webmail.unionavenue.net [65.208.232.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 021A843F3F for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2003 21:23:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from listmail@webokay.biz) Received: from webmail.unionavenue.net (localhost.unionavenue.net [127.0.0.1]) h6N4T2Eu008302; Tue, 22 Jul 2003 22:29:02 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from listmail@webokay.biz) Received: from localhost (admin@localhost)h6N4T2us008299; Tue, 22 Jul 2003 22:29:02 -0600 (MDT) X-Authentication-Warning: webmail.unionavenue.net: admin owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 22:29:02 -0600 (MDT) From: Mailing List Account X-X-Sender: admin@webmail.unionavenue.net To: Tony Sterrett In-Reply-To: <8AE4DA75-BCC1-11D7-9DA1-000A957FF666@pacbell.net> Message-ID: <20030722222140.N7673@webmail.unionavenue.net> References: <8AE4DA75-BCC1-11D7-9DA1-000A957FF666@pacbell.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.21 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) 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 04:23:10 -0000 On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Tony Sterrett wrote: > 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. Hi Tony, Why bother? There certainly is not much, if anything at all, to be gained by running two separate installations of Bind on one box. One installation will handle both primary and secondary zones and maintenance will be easier. If you are going to be running both primary and secondary for the same zones on one box just have Bind listen on two IP addresses. If, on the other hand, if you are going to be doing primary for some zones and secondary for other zones you can do both on Bind without any trouble at all. Two separate installations won't do much more than make maintenance more difficult than its to be. Best Regards, Brent Brent Sims, Customer Satisfaction Manager WebOkay Internet Services, LLC http://www.webokay.net/ Phone (719) 595-1427