Synchronizing Name-servers

[Bob Vance]

I assume that you're talking about making your secondary "slave" for
each zone on the primary that's "primary".

Assume something like:

   ...
zone "vance" {
    type master;
    file ".pri/vance";
    forwarders { };             /*20010123jrv*/
};

zone "1.168.192.in-addr.arpa" {
    type master;
    file ".pri/vance.192.168.1";
    forwarders { };             /*20010123jrv*/
};
zone "dynamic.vance" in {
    type master;
    file ".pri/vance-dynamic";
    allow-update { localhost; };
    forwarders { };             /*20010123jrv*/
};
   ...


then a simple 'sed' will do it:


sed < /etc/named.conf \
  -e 's/type.*master/type slave/' \
  -e 's/file.*"\.pri\//file "\.sec\//' \
  -e '/\.sec\//{a \
      masters \{10.10.72.9 ; \};
    }' \
  > named.sec


This create a file "named.sec" and
 . changes each "master" to "slave"
 . changes each ".pri/" subdirectory filename to ".sec/" subdirectory
    (of course, you may not have subdirectories and may have some
     other way to distinguish secondary files from primary.
    )
 . adds a "masters" statement

Note that this will keep all other lines intact and you may need to
add additional changes or do them manually.

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-----Original Message-----
From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org]On
Behalf Of Space Captain
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 8:18 PM
To: bind-users at isc.org
Subject: Synchronizing Name-servers


I am attempting to synchronize my primary and secondary named.conf
files. Does anyone know of a utility or have a script to do this?


Thanks!


Chris Wilson
Subsonic Online