Secondary server on primary

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 12:03:28PM -0400, Jason McMullen wrote:
> Here's something thats got me thinking.  On our primary namserver, have
> another domain setup as a secondary in our named.boot file.  Does bind
> actually write a copy of their zone file somewhere?  We listed in the
> named.boot file that it would be something like this:
> 
> secondary        domain.com        0.0.0.0        secondary/db.domain.com
> 
> Now it *should* write a copy of their db file in the /etc/namedb/secondary
> directory, but it is not.  Any suggestions?

I remember noticing the same thing once, but I'm not sure how I fixed
it.  Is the master listing the slave as a name server?  Can you resolve
info from domain.com on the slave server?  Is the "secondary" directory
writable by the userid under which 'named' is running?  Is it spelled
correctly???  ;-)

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