bind multiple instances

Scott Bertilson ssb at umn.edu
Fri May 18 16:44:21 UTC 2012


In our case, our on-campus public recursive servers run 2 instances, one
for local applications only and the other for the public.  We implemented
it almost exactly as you describe and it works great.

Scott

On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Barry Margolin <barmar at alum.mit.edu>wrote:

> In article <mailman.820.1337354587.63724.bind-users at lists.isc.org>,
>  "Amira Othman" <a.othman at cairosource.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi all
> > I am using bind 9 on centos 5.8 and I want to configure second instance
> on
> > bind with another ip. Is that possible with bind and how can I do that?
>
> Give them each their own named.conf file, and it would probably be best
> for them to have different default directories.  Use the listen-on
> option in each named.conf to specify the IP that it uses.
>
> However, for most purposes where you might want to have multiple
> instances, you can achieve the same thing with views.  What are you
> trying to do that views doesn't accommodate?
>
> --
> Barry Margolin
> Arlington, MA
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