4 DNS servers, 1 BIND9 slave, 2 BIND8.4 slaves, 1 BIND8 master

[Andy Shellam]

Hi Ian,

Personally I've always had to do this, but then the first Bind version I 
used was Bind 9.
It makes sense, for the following reasons:

a) How will the slave know which zones it's authoritative for?
b) How will the slave know which is the master/s server?
c) How will the slave know where to store it's zone files for the zones?

I can confirm this would still be the case if you upgraded your master 
to 9.4, as both my master/slave are running 9.4.1.

Andy.

Ian Savoy wrote:
> The issue i am having is regarding zone transfers between my bind9 slave 
> and my bind8 master.  It appears that i have to manually add the zone in 
> named.conf on my slave before the rndc utility will update the domain 
> after it's created on the master.  My normal procedure was as follows 
> before the upgrade:
>
>
>    1. add zone to named.conf on master
>    2. create zone file for domain being added
>    3. run 'rndc reload domain.com' on the master
>    4. run 'rndc reload domain.com' on the slave
>
> These steps would normally result in updating the zones on the slave as 
> well, WITHOUT having to manually add a line in named.conf, however now i 
> have to do the following:
>
>    1. add zone to named.conf on master
>    2. create zone file on master
>    3. run rndc reconfig on master
>    4. add zone to named.conf on bind9 slave
>    5. run rndc reload on slave
>
> Questions:
>
>    1. Would i have this problem if i upgraded my master to BIND9?
>    2. Is there a workaround, or another way of doing this.
>
> This problem started after a migration, however it was a very smooth 
> migration, and there are no configuration differences on the servers, 
> i.e. the settings on the old bind8 slave are the same on the bind9 slave 
> that replaced it - thus, this is not a misconfiguration as far as i can 
> tell.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> -Ian
>
>