Re: [cobalt-users] automatic secondary DNS caching

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Adam Williams wrote:

> If I can have it grabe the DNS
> files from ns1, then I don't have to add the DNS entries to ns2 when I add
> new ones to ns1.

Everyone I know who does it this way copies the /etc/named/conf file
from the system acting as primary to the system acting as secondary via
ftp, then a cronjob (acting as root) to manipulate the file to change
the records from primary records to secondary records, then to use it to
replace the "current" (now old) file, then to restart DNS.

We host multiple clients' DNS, and we don't copy any one client's files
into our own; we just don't trust it; any client's problems could cause
our whole DNS server to go down.  Instead we have our clients tell us
the domains we need to add.

Jeff
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