multiple slave zones pointing to same file?

[Gordon A. Lang]

The slave files do not carry the "@" I presume you are using on
the master -- the zone-transfer data includes the specific domain
names -- so the slave files can't be shared even if they could be
shared.

Maybe you can write a program that translates the slave data
into the sharable format, and every time there is a zone transfer,
you can run the program to generate a sharable file, and then
have all the rest of your zone set up as masters, and have
your program do an rndc reload after generatign the shared
file....   ;-)

or just use separate files.

--
Gordon Lang

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From: "online-reg" <online-reg at enigmedia.com>
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Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2010 9:47 AM
Subject: Re: multiple slave zones pointing to same file?


>>>> IME the best way to do this on a Unix'y system is to use hard links.
>>>> That way if you ever need to change one of them to be its own file
>>>> it's trivial to do so. Also IME, BIND doesn't react well to having
>>>> multiple slave zones sharing the same file, but that may have improved
>>>> in more recent versions, I haven't tried it for a couple of years now.
>>>
>>> Thanks Doug, but I'm not entirely clear on what you're recommending? It
>>> seems like you're saying it's OK, but then you're saying BIND doesn't
>>> like it?
>> 
>> I'm guessing then that you're not running BIND on a Unix system. In any 
>> case, Mark is in a much better position than I to state categorically, 
>> "Don't do that" so I am happy to defer to his wisdom.
>> 
>> Just use different files for each zone. Yes, it's a bit of duplication 
>> on the file system, but that's not the end of the world. Disk is cheap, 
>> DNS failure i
> 
> Thanks Doug/Mark...I ended up just doing it the "right" way ;)
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