can we promote a SLAVE to be a new MASTER ?

[Brad Knowles]

At 7:05 PM -0400 8/2/01, The AceyMan wrote:

>  I'm pretty certain how to edit the named.conf file to make it work as
>  a master, but I am concerned that all the transferred 'copies' that we
>  have from the slave won't work in a master role.

	This should not be a problem.

>  Should I be concerned?  Must I hand hack the files?  Is there a script
>  or tool to help?

	Unless you were using advanced features of BIND 9 (such as 
"views"), the zone files on the slaves should have the same content 
as the zone files on the master.  They may not be formatted the same, 
but the content should be the same.  The only thing that should 
change between the slaves and the master is the configuration file, 
which is not particularly hard to change (just change "slave" to 
"master", drop out the IP address or list of IP addresses to pull a 
copy from, and you should be done).

	This is a fairly typical operation to perform when a master dies 
and has to be replaced by one of the slaves.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

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