rndc reconfig causing long timeouts

[Bryan Irvine]

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> Yes, we have about 171,000 zones, all with multiple cnames like ftp,

whoa.

> mail, www, etc, and sub-domains.  I am now thinking that the best way to solve these
> timeouts is to make our ns1 machine not be the master on which we run
> the rndc reconfig but run the reconfig on a non public master and
> have it update our 3 public slave namservers.  What is the term for this
> type of setup and is there a good methodology for migrating from what we have now (3
> nameservers, ns1 being master).

Are you thinking of a gold server?

http://www.infrastructures.org/

--Bryan