Newbie question on lots of slave zones

[David Botham]

bind-users-bounce at isc.org wrote on 10/23/2003 03:14:03 PM:
> David E. Smith <dave at technopagan.org> wrote:
> > I don't think there's a quick easy way to do this, but I can hope ...
> 
> > I want to set up one DNS server (ns1.foo.com) that will be doing 
primary 
> > DNS for about 600 zones, plus acting as a caching server for a few 
> > thousand dialup customers. The caching thing is easy...
> 
> > What I'd like to do is set up ns1.foo.com so that any changes made to 
it 
> > are automatically propagated to ns2.foo.com. Change a zone file? It 
> > propagates. Create a new zone, or cease to be authoritative for a 
zone? It 
> > propagates. Et cetera.
> 
> > I know this can be done by putting a whole lot of slave directives on 
ns2, 
> > and telling it that ns1 is the master, but that doesn't cover the 'I 
got a 
> > new zone' part of the problem.

Correct.  BIND does not replicate configuration (named.conf) changes, only 
zone changes via IXFR or AXFR.  NOTIFY speeds up the refresh considerably.


> 
> > I suppose I could just export the config file and zone directory via 
SMB 
> > or NFS or whatever, but that opens up a whole new can of ugliness that 
I'd 
> > prefer to avoid if I can.
> 
> > Any brilliant ideas, or am I gonna have to do this the hard way?

Perl is your friend.  However, if you are looking for clean and supported, 
check out of of the commercial GUI front ends and/or appliances.

Dave...

> 
> Visit a course about dns, or at least read "Managing DNS and BIND"
> bu Cricket Liu.
> 
> 
> 
> > ...dave
> 
> 
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