Same instnace of bind working as both master/slave

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Tue Mar 12 22:43:52 UTC 2002


In article <a6lvqa$4b5 at pub3.rc.vix.com>, sj <santosjha at yahoo.com> wrote:
>I am new to bind/dns technology. I was wondering can I configure same
>instance of bind as both master/slave. I mean master for a set of
>slave servers and slave for another master server, where from it will
>get its update.

Master and slave are configured on a per-zone basis, not per-server.
That's why "type slave" and "type master" are configured within the "zone"
statement, not as global settings.

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