DNS w/Win2k

[Kevin Darcy]

It's not that hard to reconfigure a slave as a master in the case of a
master failure. This could probably be scripted fairly easily. You'd have
to be careful, however, on recovery, to make sure the original master is
completely sync'ed with the zone before it starts accepting updates again.
Otherwise you could lose updates that were sent to the slave and
subsequently overlaid by a zone transfer.


- Kevin

fievel58 at my-deja.com wrote:

> I am running BIND 8.2.2p5 on Solaris 2.7. I plan to upgrade to p7 on
> the BIND after the first of the year. In our Lab we are testing a WIN2k
> solution with the DNS. I have found that the dynamic updates can only
> be written to the master, which makes sense. I need to put together
> some kind of fail-over plan. If the master goes down the slave will
> answer queries but no further updates will occur. Am I missing
> something or does that leave me with a one box solution?
> Of course we have looked into subdomains but that will complicate other
> issues on our network.
> Any ideas or input would be helpful.
> Thank you for sharing.