Multiple masters expected behavior?

Barry Margolin barmar at alum.mit.edu
Sat Jul 24 12:09:40 UTC 2010


In article <mailman.83.1279918361.15649.bind-users at lists.isc.org>,
 Peter Laws <plaws at ou.edu> wrote:

> On 07/22/10 19:57, Barry Margolin wrote:
> > In article<mailman.65.1279835965.15649.bind-users at lists.isc.org>,
> >   Peter Laws<plaws at ou.edu>  wrote:
> >
> >> I have multiple interfaces on my master and multiple interfaces on most of
> >> my slaves.
> >>
> 
> 
> >>
> >> Is that expected behavior?
> >
> > Yes.  What if the first server stops getting updates, but the second one
> > does and has a higher serial number?  Don't you want the slaves to check
> > the SOA record on it to pick up these changes?
> 
> Except that the 2 "masters" are simply different interfaces on the same 
> master ... so the serial number *better* always be the same!

That's true in *your* case.  But BIND was designed to handle the more 
general case, where the masters can be different machines.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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