RE: [cobalt-users] [RaQ3] DNS primary and secondary on two RaQ3's

["Andy Brown" <andy.brown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Hello:
> 
> I have been wanting to do this for some time and looked 
> through the archives from time to time searching for the 
> exact answer. I'm just not clear on what I'm reading. Is 
> there a way, or has anyone done it, that one RaQ can 
> automatically serve as secondary DNS for the other primary. 
> What needs to be done on both servers?
> 
> Thanks:)
> 
> Robert



Hi Robert,
I think what you want to do is something that we have in place here. I
currently have 3 dns servers, two on Qube2's and one on a Raq4, but the
process is very similar on all of them.
I presume you already have the primary setup? In which case there is
nothing further to do on that machine.

On the secondary, go into the DNS from the Control Panel, and select Add
secondary name service for domain.
Enter in the domain-name that you want to use, and then the IP address
of your primary server.
Save settings and exit.
Give the servers a chance to update then do a query to your secondary
machine, it should now have the same records as your primary. It will do
named-xfers automatically, so that should be all you need to do.

Of course you can tweak all of this looking at the /etc/named.boot or
/etc/named.conf (named.boot is for Qube2/Raq3 and named.conf is newer
for the raq4) and working on the files directly, but the cobalt
web-interface should do what you need.

Regards,
Andy
andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://ineedlinux.info/