replicating dynamicly updated servers..
Kevin Darcy
kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Tue Sep 5 21:16:41 UTC 2006
Gregory Machin wrote:
> Hi
> I have a master dns server (bind 9) that has 2 zones that clients update
> dynamicly... Bind doesn't allow for slave serve to be updated for a dynamic
> zone ....
> How can I work around this .. as I need a backup server so if the primay
> master is down the clients can still resolve ...
>
>
What you're describing -- having multiple servers that can accept
Dynamic Updates for the same zone -- is usually called "multi-master"
and vanilla BIND does not support it at this time. The problem, as I
understand it, is what to do about conflicting updates, e.g. client A
adds record X but client B deletes X. Do you go by timestamp, or some
other attribute of the respective updates? The only way I'm aware of
that multi-master has been implemented with at least partial success is
when there is a back-end database -- e.g. LDAP for Active
Directory/Microsoft DNS, or a regular DBMS such as Oracle or Sybase for
Lucent's QIP product (using a modified version of BIND) -- which acts as
a kind of "central arbitrator" and will prevent conflicting updates from
getting out of hand.
- Kevin
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