DNS cluster

[Genco YILMAZ]

Hi Stelios,
I had written a BIND-GUI in php and backend perl to manage zone files.
In fact, this software changes the way master and slave concept a little
bit. All zone files are kept in a MySQL database. When you add a new
zone into the master dns server through GUI, all other client dns
servers fetch new zone files or any changed data with the client
software written in perl.  Perl clients make a tcp connection to the
database server through an encrypted tunnel connection and write the new
data into the normal text files.  When you write a cron entry on the
master and client dns servers all data is spread into client dns
servers. This allowed me to play with zone files because in this
structure every client is a master server functionally. GUI allows any
change on the zone records kept in database.
    In fact I have implemented this structure for me but If anybody
needs this, after a little documentation it can be ready for any own system.
Kind Regards.

Stelios Asmargianakis wrote:

>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:
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>> I am trying to set up a DNS cluster using a traditional master-slave but
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>I
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>> 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).
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>	There's no standard way to automatically distribute changes to 
>named.conf, at least not so far as I know.
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>> That means that although the zone files would automatically synchronise,
>> however I would have to manually add new zone entries to named.conf on
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>the
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>> 2nd box (linux no control panel).
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>	Yup.  That's a well-known problem.
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>> Any ideas how to achieve that?
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>	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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Genco YILMAZ