master and slave

[Holger Honert]

Stephane Bortzmeyer schrieb:

>On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 12:17:47PM -0500,
> Frank Y.F. Luo <luoy at muohio.edu> wrote 
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>>In terms of "hidden" or "stealth", which NS will/can be chosen as
>>the NS in SOA record?
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>I am not aware of any "good practice" here. In the wild, I've seen
>several solutions (using the name of the hidden master, despite the
>fact that it is not in the NS records, using a name of one of the
>official servers - choosen at random, etc).
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If you intend to run dynamic updates within an Active Directory or with
M$-Clients you have to make sure that the hidden master is in the
MNAME-Filed of the SOA-Record.

you don't have to mention that in the NS-Records necessarily anyway.

a stealth slave server is also not mentioned in NS-sections but that
serves e.g. if you have too much NS-Records to fit in one udp-based DNS
messsage.
if you have so, don't forget to configure your stealth slave's master
server to send it NOTIFY messages ...

A detailed description is to be found on the extra-ordinarily "DNS&BIND
Cookbook" from Cricket Liu.

Regards

Holger