zone delegation

[Kevin Darcy]

ANG Choon Gei (CSC) wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I would like to extend my current zone delegation from a registered DNS
> server to a secondary non-registered DNS server.
>
> The registered primary DNS (166.22.1.1) server is running BIND v4 with this
> named.boot.
>
> directory       /etc/name
>
> primary         abc.com                 abc.db
> primary         def.com                         def.db
> secondary       abc.com 166.22.2.1      xyz.db
> primary                 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa            lookback.db
> cache           .                               cache.db
>
> For the secondary(or slave) server (166.22.2.1) is running BIND v8 and it is
> configured as follows :
> options {
>         directory       "/etc/name"
>         };
>
> zone "." in {
>         type hint;
>         file "cache.db"
>         }
>
> zone "xyz.db" in {
>         type slave;
>         file "xyz.db";
>         masters {166.22.1.1;};
>         };
>
> The record in the secondary server seems to overwrite the records on the
> primary server. I would like to append a record using the secondary server.

You can't do that. Being a slave means having an _exact_copy_ of the master's
data. To maintain data in the domain you either need to maintain it on the
master or delegate a subzone.


- Kevin