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

[Gerald Waugh <gerald@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 24 January 2002 05:08 pm, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
> >Do you mean to say it doesn't matter whether the secondary is set-up as
>
> a slave or >master? If not, in what cases *does* it matter?
>
> Yes, I'd be interested to know that, too! I liked the idea of setting
> them both as primaries and rsync'ing. Will it matter. I guess the only
> reason you need to have them as secondary is so they will update
> automatically after you enter them. But the rsync idea would be better,
> you wouldn't even have to enter the secondary dns.

You have it correct. The slave (secondary) gets updated when you edit the 
master's (primary) zone files (providing you inc the masters serial number 
for the zone).

With the two master method, you are going to rsync the /etc/named directory
and the /etc/named.conf file from master 1 to master 2.
And provide a method to reload master 2 when the sync occurs.

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