Secondary DNS Server (Slave)

[Barry Margolin]

In article <006a01bf9e84$1b0e58e0$3a0410ac at summitnetworks.com>,
Chad K. Schuller <chads at websuite.com> wrote:
>Hey List,
>I am just starting to build a secondary dns server(4.9.7).  The primary
>(4.9.7)server has around 5000 domain that we currently host.  This number is
>growing everyday.  When I add a zone record to the primary box, I would also
>have to add it to the secondary's named.boot file.   The documents I have
>read, "the grasshopper book",  states that a secondary dns server will only
>do am update to the zone files that it is a secondary for.  Which means, I
>would have to add the line:  secondary     mydomain.com    xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
>mydomain.com.db for every domain that is added to the primary.  Is this
>correct?  email off list if I was not clear enough.

Yes, you're correct.

BTW, why are you using 4.9.7?  Shouldn't a company hosting that many
domains be using a more recent version of DNS?

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