DNS cluster

[Stelios Asmargianakis]

Hi Brad,

Thanks for your answer.
Using rsync is not the problem and I can copy the zones easily and then
reload the dns; the problem comes that I need to edit each time the
named.conf on the 2nd server manually. This is impossible as we are talking
for many entries in DNS every week.

Any other ideas?

Regarding with Peter Alberchts reply (thanks for that) using webmin or any
other GUI is not the solution as I am trying to find something to do the job
automatic.

Unfortunately it seems that I will need to stuck with 2 dns servers both
with cpanel (it's a web hosting control panel).

Thanks

-----Original Message-----
From: Brad Knowles [mailto:brad at stop.mail-abuse.org] 
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 1:01 PM
To: linux at climbincrete.com
Cc: bind-users at isc.org
Subject: Re: DNS cluster

At 12:25 PM +0100 2005-07-07, Stelios A. wrote:

>  I am trying to set up a DNS cluster using a traditional master-slave but
I
>  cannot find a way to add the appropriate entries in named.conf on the
>  slave DNS (master will run linux with cpanel control panel installed).

	There's no standard way to automatically distribute changes to 
named.conf, at least not so far as I know.

>  That means that although the zone files would automatically synchronise,
>  however I would have to manually add new zone entries to named.conf on
the
>  2nd box (linux no control panel).

	Yup.  That's a well-known problem.

>  Any ideas how to achieve that?

	You could set up something like rsync or ssync (rsync over ssh), 
pull the configuration files out of a database on all machines, or 
any number of other alternatives.

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