BIND 9

[John Morgan Salomon]

Unless you have a different instances listening on different interfaces/IPs
as master/slave for the same domain if you only have one machine--some
registrars will not permit master & slave on the same IP. 

Or can BIND9 handle this in a single instance?

Cheers,

-John



Jeremy Gaddis wrote:

>On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 23:33, Kirk Strauser wrote:
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>>At 2003-07-23T03:55:47Z, Tony Sterrett <tonyste at pacbell.net> writes:
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>>>I'm trying to configure both a master and slave DNS on the same
>>>machine. My approach is to run the master by setting named_enable="YES"
>>>and it will use the config file in /etc/named. To start the slave I will
>>>In rc.local and it would use the config files in /etc/named/slave. Does
>>>this seems ok? Is there a better way.
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>>This seems to come up every now and then.  Before we start, is there any
>>reason you want to have two seperate named process running, instead of
>>having one process serving as master to some domains and slave to others?
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>No, it's generally considered {easier,better,more manageable,...} to
>only have one instance of BIND.  BIND can be master for some domains
>and slave for others, so there really is no need.
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>j.
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