Slave server problems

[Danny Mayer]

Make a full backup copy of all of the files that you can squirrel away somewhere,
both on and off disk before you change anything.  That way you can always go
back if you make a mistake.

         Danny
At 11:54 AM 9/14/01, tucttsg at yahoo.com wrote:

>Hi Joe,
>
>Thanks, thats probably what we'll do. Can't find a
>perl script, I'm cobbling something together to take a
>named_dump.db and re-write a fully master named.conf.
>
>Thanks for the thoughts.
>
>Tuc
>--- Joe Kattner <joe.kattner at adelphia.com> wrote:
> > Changing the slave zones to master would be easiest
> > and fastest way to keep
> > serving authoritative data, until you can bring the
> > masters back on line.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > --Joe
> > 
> > Our thoughts are with you.
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: tucttsg at yahoo.com [mailto:tucttsg at yahoo.com]
> > Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 8:39 AM
> > To: bind-users at isc.org
> > Subject: Slave server problems
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Please excuse me if I don't talk straight. I'm
> > sitting
> > in a 1/2 dark datacenter 4 blocks from "Ground Zero"
> > and have had 10 hours sleep since Tuesday when I
> > came
> > in (And haven't left since). (Oh, this is Bind 8)
> > 
> > We only recently lost the generator, but before we
> > did
> > we were able to have Bryan Pace and Reid Fishler of
> > Lightning Internet Services, Inc. , the provider of
> > bandwidth for our on-site/off network 3rd DNS server
> > build us one off site, and re-direct all traffic to
> > it
> > under the same IP.
> > 
> > This is a slave server, and is always looking for
> > the
> > primary to sync to. Due to no power (I'm on a laptop
> > dialed into NJ to get this out), these systems
> > aren't
> > responding.
> > 
> > I'm afraid that after the time set to expire (Some
> > only 24 hours), that we'll stop advertising zones
> > period.
> > 
> > Is there something to do, is there some perl script
> > written or that we can write, or ?????, that would
> > allow us to keep telling the process that these
> > files
> > are valid. Do we just re-do all "slave" to "master"?
> > 
> > I really appreciate the help, thanks.
> > 
> > Tuc/TTSG Internet Services, Inc.
> > (Website down....)
> > 
> > 
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