slave and replication

Brad Knowles brad.knowles at skynet.be
Fri Jul 27 19:56:32 UTC 2001


At 8:38 AM +0000 7/27/01, Tony wrote:

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

	Similar, but not quite.  On the primary, you declare it to be a 
"master" for a particular zone, and to pull its information for that 
zone from a file.  On a secondary, you declare it to be a "slave" and 
to try to pull copies of the data from one or more "masters", and to 
then *store* the information it has about that zone in a particular 
file.

	These two operations are very similar, but not quite exactly the same.

>  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?

	Yup.  You need to create the appropriate /etc/named.conf entry 
for the zone.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

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