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