[PLUG] Automatic Slave updates for bind

Brent Jones brent at servuhome.net
Fri Jan 21 08:10:16 UTC 2005


The slave shouldnt be asking for updates. Once the master loads a new 
zone file, restarts, or has a zone update, it will send a notify to all 
the slaves, and start a zone-transfer.

Brent Jones
brent [at] servuhome [dot] net

Josh Orchard wrote:
>>If you've added the specified slave server as a server to send
>>notifies, everytime the zone if modified it will automaticaly send a
>>notify.
>>
>>named.conf:
>>
>>
>>zone "somedomain.com" { type master; file
>>"/chroot/blah/somedomain.com";
>>allow-transfer { 66.66.66.66; 77.77.77.77; }; };
>>
>>
>>And your slave should be set to receive the notify, by having a
>>similar setup, by instead of type master; it will be type slave; And
>>so-forth.
>>
>>Brent Jones
>>brent [at] servuhome [dot] net
> 
> 
> Understand.  But is there a way that I can now tell the slave to go
> ask the master for changes and new files and have those transferred
> down?  Or have the Master send send record changes to the slave when
> they are created?
> 
> It seems with nsnotify I should be able to fun that or nsupdate and
> have the slave pull all the new records and changes down.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Josh
> 
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