Elvind & Ben,
Thanks so much for your quick replies, I really appreciate it. I'll try out
your suggested solutions on Monday, since I'm off today, and will report
back my results.
Thanks again and have a nice weekend.
SA
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Eivind Olsen <eiv...@aminor.no> wrote:
> Samad Agha wrote:
>
> > 1- found out which version of bind dsn1 is running and installed exactly
> > that version on dns2:
> > [root@dns1 named]# named -v
> > BIND 9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-16.P1.el5
>
> That version is quite old. In general, just because server 1 has an old
> BIND isn't a reason to choose an old BIND on server 2 as well.
>
> > 2- Copied dns1:/etc/named.conf from primary server (dns1) onto dns2 and
> > chown it:
> > [root@dns2 ~]# ls -l /etc/named.conf
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root named 2876 May 3 09:30 /etc/named.conf
>
> Sure, you can use an existing named.conf as basis for your 2nd nameserver,
> but if you want to turn you setup into a normal master/slave setup, you'll
> also want to configure one of them with zones of type slave, and telling
> BIND who the master is, something like:
>
> zone "my.zonename" {
> type slave;
> file "path/to/my.zonename-file";
> masters {
> 192.168.1.10; // use proper IP address instead
> };
> };
>
> You might also want to set up your zonefile transfers, typically by
> allowing the slave to transfer from the master (so you might need to
> change the configuration on the master), and perhaps disallowing anyone
> else from doing transfers.
>
> > 4- I get the "couldn't open pid file '/var/run/named/named.pid':
> > Permission
> > denied" as follows:
>
> Check the permissions of that directory, and see if there's also a
> named.pid file already. I'm not familiar with that old RedHat package, so
> I on't know how it expects things to be set up, if you're using the
> bundled start script.
> If the permissions initially look good, I suggest you look into whether
> you have SELinux running, maybe its policies are making problems for you?
>
> Regards
> Eivind Olsen
> eiv...@aminor.no
>
>
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