Alan Smith wrote:
> Firstly, thanks to those that helped with my queries on Exim. It seems
> to be running OK......
>> I have another little problem. I need to set up a secondary DNS
> server. I have looked through the DNS Howto and had a look at an old
> version of the O'Reilly book. If I set up BIND on a machine and put
> entries into named.conf to say it is a secondary for whatever domains,
> are the relevant zone files automatically created for me??
Yes, they are created automatically.
You create an entry for named, telling it to be a secondary DNS for
a specific domain (type slave), and pointing it at the IP of the
primary.
When named is restarted, it will query the primary and request all
of the entries for the domain, which it will then store locally and
serve to anyone who requests.
The versioning of named configs is used to control when this record
is reloaded from the primary.
Regards,
Vin
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