master and slave name architecture

[Barry Margolin]

In article <chr9j1$1n6u$1 at sf1.isc.org>, qbo at ita.tip.net (Gio) wrote:

> Hi gurus,
> 
> I ask you a question. Is it possible to have a master-slave
> architecture so that the secondary nameserver gets the new zones from
> the master without touching the named.conf file.

There's nothing in the DNS protocol to support this, and BIND doesn't 
have any built-in mechanism for it.

> I would like to have the same zones on each server and I would like to
> add the new zones only on the master.
> 
> Am I Alice in Wonderland?

Write a simple script that converts the master's named.conf file to the 
slave's, and the use a file transfer protocol to copy it over to the 
slaves.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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