Re: [cobalt-users] [RaQ] How to make a slave nameserver detect new zones?

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Per M Knutsen wrote:

> I understand that to have a nameserver to behave as a slave, all one has to
> do is to copy the named.conf, edit the entries and restart named. Now, I
You make it sound so easy -/

> would also like the slave to be automatically updated whenever the master
> has an entry added in named.conf.
> 
> I consulted DNS & BIND on this (pp.85-89) but it appears to only cover
> synchronization of exisiting zones. Is what I request not a feature of BIND?

Correct, the DNS protocol currently has no method of telling a slave that
it is now responsible for another zone, it can only tell a slave that the
information for a zone the slave is configured for has changed...

Typical solutions are as you guessed, signed email, auth'd interfaces
etc...I'll let someone else elaborate, i don't use this method...(yet)

gsh