Setting-UP a secondary Name Server

Barry Margolin barmar at alum.mit.edu
Fri Feb 15 01:25:07 UTC 2008


In article <fp18kn$2hcu$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 "kkchn sms" <kkchn.gw at gmail.com> wrote:

> People : Let me ask your help on setting up a secondary Name Server for My
> Domain
> ( I have a Primary Name Server setup by me running fine  : But I dont know
> what changes I have to make  in the  named.conf & zone file , so   in the
> second machine just copying the two files  make it  Secondary Name server )
> : Here I am looking for your assistance .

In named.conf, change "type master;" to "type slave;" and add "masters { 
<address of master server>;};" to each zone clause.

In the zone files, add an NS record specifying the name of the slave 
server.

Do you have the "DNS & BIND" book?  Doesn't it explain this clearly?

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
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