how does Bind choose which master to xfer from?
Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Sat Jun 3 00:39:24 UTC 2000
> Hi.
>
> if I have:
>
> zone "foo.com" {
> type slave;
> file "data/db.foo";
> masters {
> 10.1.1.1;
> 172.17.1.1;
> };
> };
>
> which master will my secondary do the xfer from? And does the order I
> list the masters matter? I think I remember (from reading the code)
> that it'll do an SOA query to all masters listed and do the xfer from
> the one with the least RTT. Is this true? If so, is there a way to
> control this behviour: i.e. I want my slave to always do (or try) an
> xfer from the first master listed even if its RTT is greater.
>
> As always, any help is appreciated.
>
> --
> Anthony
>
>
It will query all masters in order. When it finds one with a newer
version of the zone than the slave currently has it start a zone
transfer.
Mark
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