Updating slaves servers?

Jose Albert jose at mordred.datacourse.com
Wed Apr 4 20:58:55 UTC 2001


Well this part works well the changes on the main server records are
updated to the slave, but what about adding a new record, how the slaves
get aware of.

Thanks 

-Jose

jose at datacourse.com
www.datacourse.com

On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Michael Kohne wrote:

> At 11:50 AM 4/4/2001 -0700, Jose Albert wrote:
> >Hi everybody
> >
> >Please can somebody tell me how to update slave servers.
> >
> >When a record is added to the main server this one then updates the slaves?
> >
> >I'm being updating the slave server manually.
> >
> >Any idea will be highly appreciated.
> >
> >Jose Albert
> 
> If you update the serial number in the SOA for the zone you are updating, 
> then the slaves will automatically update. Either you will have to wait for 
> the refresh interval in the SOA to expire and the slaves to update, OR your 
> bind can send a NOTIFY to the slave servers, and if they are of an 
> appropriately recent version of bind, they will update automatically.
> 
> Note that it is vital that you update the serial number: If you don't, then 
> the slaves will NOT update under any circumstances. Just increment the 
> serial number and the slaves should update next time they refresh, or when 
> they get the NOTIFY. (Of course, this assumes that the slaves are 
> configured in the usual manner.)
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> 
> 
> Michael Kohne        mhkohne at discordia.org
> 3000 lbs of wood, 300 foot per minute - DO NOT get in the way.
> 
> 



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