BIND 9.2 - Master/Secondary HELP!

[Lists User]

Jonathan,

Sounds like you only have two computers you want this set up on.

Make sure you have the this line in the primary:
options {
......

	allow-transfer { <second_dary_ip_goes_here; };
......
};


Then for each one of these in the primary (in the /etc/named.conf):
zone "domain.com" {
        type master;
        file "db.domain.com";
};


You want one of these in the secondary (in it's /etc/named.conf):

zone "dnsmadeeasy.com" {
        type slave;
        file "db.buyinggiftsonline.com";
        masters{ 192.168.1.2; };
};



Tada... that's it!

Best of luck,
-Steve

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On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Jonathan Shaw wrote:

> Hi...
> I would like to setup a master/secondary DNS server.  I have installed BIND
> on the server I want to use [ver. 9.2.0 running Redhat 7.2].
> I want this master to contain all of the zones for all of my other servers
> and this server's zones.
> The server is not intranet but onthe internet.  I essentially want this in
> order to have redundancy if BIND daemon fails on the individual servers i.e.
> just redundacny.  I am thinking that a secondary nameserver is what I need.
> BIND is installed and running and there are basic named.cong and rndc.conf
> files.
> 
> How do I tell BIND it is a secondard nameserver?  How can I pull existing
> zones from my servers to this server?  How do I get this server to
> automatically 'rip' zones on my other servers regularly?
> 
> Any other advice you think appropiate or need please just respond or e-mail
> me - any help is great.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
>