[plug] Bind- Master- Slave config

[Paul Day]

On Wed, 21 May 2003, Tim Bowden wrote:
> I am setting up a slave dns server which of itself presents no great
> difficulty, but I was wondering how a master server knows who its slave
> servers are?

The NS records in the zone file.

> In the master I can set the also-notify {x.x.x.x} and
> notify {explicit} options but is this the normal way it is done?

I personally only use that when I want to notify an NS of a new zone when
it's not a slave (eg, an ex-slave or soon-to-be-slave). Having it as an NS
record is enough for BIND to notify them.

> If I just use notify {yes} how does the master know who the slaves are
> that need to be notified?

As above.

PD

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