how to do global zone transfers?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9lbl0s$clv at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
stephan kurtz <stephan at greencedars.com> wrote:
>I've agreed to allow my dns server to act as secondary to a master that
>is authoritative over a number of domains. The trick is that additional
>domains can be added frequently on the master, and those need to be made
>supported by my (secondary) server as well. Is there a way to arrange 
>for my server to be able to transfer ALL the domain (or zone) information 
>on the remote primary? The goal is to eliminate (or at worst minizmize) 
>human intervention, such as frequent hand-editing of the named.conf files...

The DNS protocol doesn't provide any way to do this.  But there's nothing
stopping you from writing a script that uses scp to copy the master's
named.conf file and then edits all the master zones into slave zones.

I think djbdns comes with some prepackages scripts for this type of thing.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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