slave and replication

[Cricket Liu]

> Is it necccessary to create /var/named and all the zone files on a slave
DNS
> server like the primary?

You need to create the directory, but not the files.

> I just ran the named-xfer tool and it replicated my domain.zone file to my
> slave dns server. The file  however is located in /etc where named.conf is
>
> Am i missing a step?

Did you run named-xfer by hand?  If so, you probably ran it from /etc and
didn't specify a full pathname for the zone data file.

cricket