Master server offline
Barry Margolin
barmar at alum.mit.edu
Sat May 8 03:43:21 UTC 2010
In article <mailman.1428.1273241309.21153.bind-users at lists.isc.org>,
Peter Laws <plaws at ou.edu> wrote:
> On 05/07/10 06:49, Chris Thompson wrote:
>
> > Sure - just step into your time machine, go back to before the master
> > server died, and increase the SOA.expire value there so that it gets
> > propagated to the slave(s) in time.
>
>
> If he has a small number of slaves, the OP may not need a Tardis. It's
> possible to just edit the cache files. It's UGLY, you need to make sure
> you hit all the slaves, and they will get overwritten the instant your
> master returns from the dead ... but that latter's a good thing.
They'll only be overwritten if the serial number on the master increases.
>
> About this master being offline for some time due to a disk failure ...
> that policy may need review. If the OP serves his organization's DNS, it's
> pretty darn critical that customers be able to resolv their DNS info.
That's why there are slaves.
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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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