Updating slaves servers?

Jose Albert jose at mordred.datacourse.com
Wed Apr 4 22:51:05 UTC 2001



Thanks very much for yours answers, sorry about my confusion on Zone with
record. 

Now I got the idea

Thanks again

-Jose

jose at datacourse.com
www.datacourse.com

On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Kevin Darcy wrote:

> 
> What do you mean by "a new record"? Are you talking about adding a resource
> record, like an A record or an MX record? Those will get propagated to slaves, as
> long as you increment the serial number on the zone. Or by "record" do you mean a
> new zone definition? There is no standardized way to tell the slaves that they
> should add a new zone definition. You'll have to write your own.
> 
> 
> - Kevin
> 
> Jose Albert wrote:
> 
> > 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.)
> >
> 
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