Master and Slave on one server

[Kevin Darcy]

What possible benefit do you hope to derive by having the same zone defined as
master and slave on the same server? Do you expect the nameserver to perform
zone transfers from itself to itself? To what end?


- Kevin

Tim Woodmen wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to run bind 8: master and slave zone files on one Linux server
> with two IP's. The syslog reports:
>
> server named[105]: hint zone "" (IN) loaded (serial 0)
> server named[105]: master zone "localhost" (IN) loaded (serial 42)
> server named[105]: master zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" (IN) loaded (serial
> 42)
> server named[105]: master zone "mydom.co.uk" (IN) loaded (serial 2000041300)
> server named[105]: master zone "68.202.212.in-addr.arpa" (IN) loaded (serial
> 2000041304)
>
> ----server named[105]: /etc/named.conf:137: cannot redefine zone
> 'mydom.co.uk' class IN
> ----server named[105]: /etc/named.conf:145: cannot redefine zone
> '68.202.212.in-addr.arpa' class IN
>
> server named[105]: listening on [127.0.0.1].53 (lo)
> server named[105]: listening on [*.68.201.211].53 (eth0)
> server named[105]: listening on [*.68.201.212].53 (eth0:1)
> server named[105]: Forwarding source address is [0.0.0.0].1024
> server named[106]: Ready to answer queries.
>
> Am I doing the wrong thing? Should I run two Bind binaries? I have tried
> giving the slave files another name but this doesn't seem to work.
>
> Can anyone shed some light on this, I am sure it is very straight forward. I
> have looked through the postings but nothing answers this at the moment!
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Tim Woodmen.........