NS and recursive? query

[Mike Machado]

Michael Voight wrote:

> Mike Machado wrote:
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Why not make it secondary to server 2? What is the purpose here?
> >
> > I want all queries coming to server1 to be asked on server 2 immidiatly.
>
> Then why does server 1 have the zone configured?
>

How else would it know where to get the answers from. If the internic is
asking server1 how would server1 ask the internic for what ns servers to ask.

>
> > Having it a secondary would make it so if I changed a RR on server 2 it
> > would have to wait until it detected the zone had been changed. Maybe a
> > NOTIFY to server 1 from server2 when server2 changes the dns? This will
> > trigger server 1 to do an immidiate zone transfer right?
>
> If configured in named.boot (named.conf for v8) correctly.
>

I think I will just do it this way. Thanks for all the help. Does the
internic have special dns code that allows it to answer with an ns record and
still not be an athorative response?

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> >

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