question about zone files and authoritative nameservers

[James Raftery]

On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 10:27:22AM -0400, Martin Meadows wrote:
> In our /etc/named.conf file we currently have this:
> zone "h1.atd.gme.com" {         
>         type slave;
>         file "net-dns.hosts.h1.atd.gme.com.";         
>         masters {
>                 201.101.21.12;
>         };               
> 
> The question, then, is if 201.101.21.12 goes down and it
> can't send its zone file ... is their some scheme we can 
> have set up to begin using the zone file from n02      
> (201.101.21.2)?

To change the master server, change the IP address in the master{}
clause. To use 201.101.21.2 as the master, change it to:

masters {
	201.101.21.2;
};               

then reload/reconfig named.

james
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