Re: [cobalt-users] Setting a Seconday DNS Server - Help Please

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

multivex RAQ wrote:

> I have two RAQS and want one to act as a master and the other to act as a
> slave.

...<stuff snipped out of middle>...

> According to the theory, both servers should be mirroring each other, and
> content should be updated on both when changes happen.

According to whose theory <smile>?

> But I am only getting the RAQ! (primary) content updated and not the slave
> 
> What am I doing wrong?

Did you set up secondary DNS on the second RaQ, or primary DNS?  Zones
typically get transferred from the primary server to the secondary
server.  Not from primary to primary, or from secondary to secondary.

I think you're trying to use DNS zone-transfer for something it's not
made to do.

You should probably be using a non-RaQ solution, and copying entire DNS
zone files, or a semi-RaQ solution, and copying the RaQs domains file
(sorry, I forget the name and I'm not running RaQ-DNS so I'm not sure
<frown>) and running the Raq script to create the zone files after each
transfer.

Even so, how would you know which machine had the accurate records?

Jeff
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