Newbie Master/Slave question

[Rob Wright]

Thanks. It's working now and I've learned something.  Life is good.

Rob Wright

On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Kevin Darcy wrote:
> named.conf isn't automatically updated. If you want to start slaving a new
> zone, you have to add the slave definition to named.conf and issue a "ndc
> reconfig".
> 
> Having said that, there are non-standardized ways outside of BIND, to
> script the process of discovering new zones and automatically add them to
> named.conf on the slaves. I don't know if anything like that is publically
> available, though.
> 
> 
> - Kevin
> Rob Wright wrote:
> 
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I have DNS set up and properly functioning on what is our master name
> > server. I've recently set up another machine to act as the slave, and it
> > works as well, kind of. The problem that I'm having with it is that it
> > is not getting new records from the master server after I've set up a a
> > new zone. When I originally started up the slave server it pulled the
> > records over and did everything ok, but it's not updated since. I've
> > used ndc reload and restart, thinking that might do the trick, but no
> > dice. The named.conf isn't updating on the slave, and I'm not sure that
> > it's supposed to but I think it probably should? I've pored over DNS and
> > Bind, and looked over several of the very helpful websites, but have yet
> > to figure out what it wrong. I am able to use named-xfer to tranfer the
> > records over, should I do that after each new zone is created on the
> > master?
> >
> > Thanks for any help or direction you can give me,
> >
> > Rob Wright
> > rwright at poncacity.net