Secondary Server

[Barry Margolin]

In article <8ald6j$jsa$1 at readme.uio.no>,
Johan Fredrik Öhman <johan at essay.org> wrote:
>If I get it right, it's highly recomended to have a secondary DNS server.
>So I use ns.granitecanyon.com !
>But what I don't like is that for each domain I add at my DNS server I have
>to add the same name at ns.granitecanyon.com.  It fells like unnessecary
>work to me....

Hey, no one ever said operating DNS was supposed to be easy.

>Is there a way to configure a secondary server to pull all the names from a
>primary server ?  So that you can leave that server alone and still be
>confident that the domainnames at the primary also exists at the secondary ?

No.  There's nothing in the protocol to get a list of domains that a server
hosts.

>I have heard someone say this is possible, and someone its not ?  Whats the
>truth here ?

It's not.

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