[olug] DNS

[Jay Hannah]

On Wednesday, December 3, 2003, at 07:02 PM, OBrien, Timothy (Omaha 
Linux Users Group - OLUG) wrote:
> So hardware is not an issue - does anyone have
> any suggestions & helpful hints for setting up a secondary DNS?

How many zones is the primary DNS server authoritative for? If the 
answer is a handful or less (or none), you're golden. It should only 
take 30 minutes or so to configure named.

For each zone your primary is authoritative for that you want to slave 
from the secondary, add this to your named.conf:

zone "zone-i-wanna-slave.com" {
       type slave;
       file "zone-i-wanna-slave.com";
       masters { 10.0.1.17; };       <------ primary DNS server IP
       check-names fail;
       allow-update { 10.0.1.17; };  <------ ditto
       allow-transfer { any; };
       allow-query { any; };
};

Your primary won't send notifications to your secondary (unless you can 
get the primary admins to add your DNS as secondary/tertiary in the 
zone), but I don't think you care.

Etc., etc...

j
Omaha DNS Mongers: http://omaha.pm.org