Auto adding zones to a slave server
Joseph S D Yao
jsdy at cospo.osis.gov
Wed Aug 30 23:38:31 UTC 2000
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 07:29:59PM -0400, Duncan Hill wrote:
> Where I work, we have the situation of an NT server running
> Microsoft's DNS implementation being the master for the domain, and a
> Linux box with BIND 8.2.2 as the slave. I have been told that if both
> were NT servers with MS's DNS, every time a new zone is added to the
> master, the slave will automatically pick it up.
>
> Is this part of the spec, and if so, how can I tell the slave Linux
> box to pick up the new zones as they are added? I've scanned the
> cricket book a few times, and have not seen it mentioned.
If this is the case for MS DNS, it is absolutely broken behaviour. See
my response to "automatically updating named.conf" for why. Others
said similar things, e.g., Kevin Darby.
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