secondary name server question

[Kevin Darcy]

Techdog wrote:

> First of all, thanks for the reply. Very helpful.
>
> > You should really be using BIND 8 or BIND 9, which have "named.conf"
> instead of
> > "named.boot" configuration files...
>
> Will look into that, is it better?
>
> > You need to manually configure the slave to know that it's a slave for the
> > zone, who the master is, and what filename to use for storing the
> replicated
> > zone. Once you do that, though, then changes will replicate automatically.
> You
> > don't even need to create the zone file; that will be done automatically.
> Slave
> > configuration requires a "secondary" directive in named.boot, or in
> named.conf,
> > a "zone" definition specifying "type slave".
>
> Once I create that line in the NAMED.BOOT file and restart DNS, how long
> will it take before the zone file will be created? So far it has not
> appeared after several minutes. Will the Event Viewer log the update so I
> can verify it?

On Unix, it usually just takes a few seconds.


- Kevin