Two masters for one zone

[Kevin Darcy]

Herb Martin wrote:

> You could use a Win2000+ DNS server running
> on a Domain Controller (perhaps a dedicated domain
> just for this purpose) provide the two or more "Masters".
>
> It's not BIND but if you need it, there is is.  BIND secondaries
> are supported.
>
> Technically their called "Active Directory Integrated DNS
> Servers" but as a 'set' they play the role of Primary DNS.
>
> How hard would it be to add multi-mastering to BIND9?

Without ever having the possibility of a replication
conflict? Impossibly hard.

What Microsoft has reduced to a nice little marketing label --
"multi-master" -- is actually a violation of a fundamental design
principle of DNS, namely the principle of zone coherence.


-Kevin