Re: BIND9 slave

2009-12-08 Thread Kevin Darcy
Chris Thompson wrote: On Dec 7 2009, Kevin Darcy wrote: [...snip...] Or, you can run a script on the slaves which consults some centralized "zone slaving database" to determine what zones to slave, or to stop slaving. This "zone slaving database" can take many forms. One idea is to represent

Re: BIND9 slave

2009-12-08 Thread Chris Thompson
On Dec 7 2009, Kevin Darcy wrote: [...snip...] Or, you can run a script on the slaves which consults some centralized "zone slaving database" to determine what zones to slave, or to stop slaving. This "zone slaving database" can take many forms. One idea is to represent this list as a special

Re: BIND9 slave

2009-12-07 Thread Kevin Darcy
George wrote: Hi, I am trying to set up a BIND9 slave server. >From the docs I found on the internet I can see that when you add a new domain it needs to be added on both slave and master in named.conf. Is this correct? Is there a way to make the slave server automatically get and update any n

RE: BIND9 slave

2009-12-07 Thread Todd Snyder
In BIND, no. There are some solutions discussed (check the archives) around setting up special zones with the meta data required for the slaves to create their own slaves, I've even whipped up a POC, but I've not found a ready-made tool yet. Your best bet is to script something up. We have a sta

Re: BIND9 slave

2009-12-07 Thread Matthew Pounsett
On 07-Dec-2009, at 08:37, George wrote: Is there a way to make the slave server automatically get and update any new domains that are added to the master server? This question pops up about once every two months on the list. There are several other discussions on the subject that you could