putting several master DNS hosts behind a vip

[blrmaani]

On Thursday, December 10, 2015 at 9:04:48 AM UTC-8, Bob Harold wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 6:32 PM, blrmaani <blrm... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
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>   I would like to put 4 DNS masters behind a vip and have several slaves doing the zone transfer from the VIP-IP. Is this normal?
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> The usual approach is to have slaves getting zone transfers from multiple masters. What is the disadvantage of having slaves using just the vip and have all masters behind the vip?
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> thanks
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> Blr
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> As others have said, I think the recommended approach is to do zone transfers to the real servers.  That is what I do, and it works well.
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> -- 
> Bob Harold
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Thanks all. 

Somewhat related topic - when do you use a combination of load-balancer and DNS?