secondary dns server question :)

[Nick Tait]

Hi Jeff.

This is a good starting point for setting up primary and secondary servers: https://bind9.readthedocs.io/en/stable/chapter3.html#authoritative-name-servers
Nick.

> On 19 Nov 2024, at 7:44 AM, Marco Moock <mm at dorfdsl.de> wrote:
> Am Mon, 18 Nov 2024 19:03:55 +0100
> schrieb Jean-François Bachelet <jfbachelet at free.fr>:
> 
>> just to be sure, in case we have two (internals) dns servers on the
>> same network (for the case of one is unavaillable), if I understand
>> well the docs, the two servers should have the exact same
>> configurations, appart that the secondary is stated as 'secondary'
>> and the first 'master'.
>> 
>> that for both confs and zones and etc...
> 
> It depends on what you want.
> A DNS server can do different tasks.
> One is serving authoritative information.
> 
> For one zone (e.g. example.org), there exists a master and there can
> exist slaves (also called secondary).
> 
> If you have multiple zones, a server can be master for one zone and
> slave for another.
> 
> Other settings like recursive resolving for your clients can have
> completely independent setting, depending on your needs.
> 
> You need to tell us more what you want to accomplish.
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