Updating secondary NS

[Roy Arends]

On Mon, 7 May 2001, Christian Metzen wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> We are running a primary and secondary nameserver with bind 8.2.3. Is
> there a possibilty that the secondary "learns" new zones when they are
> inserted in the config of the primary? Without having to change that
> config also. In the moment we edit both files and then restart the
> servers, but when you have to do this 10 times a day it becomes very
> annoying.

Nope, this is not possible. When you want to add or remove a zone on a
primary/secondary, named.conf needs to be told for named to advertise
those zones.

Regards

Roy Arends
Nominum