Newbie Master/Slave question

[Kevin Darcy]

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