Automatic Secondary NS

[Todd Snyder]

in that case, are there any tools that will make the changes?

Once I finish my current project, I'm going to start writing something (been
on my todo list for a while) .. but if theres something out there, or if
someone has a script they've already written...

I plan on using expect a bunch, unless someone else can beat me over the
head with something else (please!  I hate expect).

It's a fairly obvious kind of thing - working at an ISP, whenever add a
domain, we have to update the secondary.  It would be much nicer if there
was one tool that would update both for provisioning.

Todd.

-----Original Message-----
From: Brad Knowles [mailto:brad.knowles at skynet.be]
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 12:35 PM
To: Andrei Gologan; comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org
Subject: Re: Automatic Secondary NS



At 5:39 PM +0200 6/5/01, Andrei Gologan wrote:

>  Is there a way to make a Nameserver an "automatic" secondary of another
>  Nameserver ?

	Nope.

>  This means I should only have to add new  records on the primary and the
>  secondary should automatically read in all domains found on the primary,
>  without me having to write them in as slaves ?

	How would the secondary find out that they are now supposed to 
serve as a nameserver for the domain?!?

	There is absolutely no way around the fact that you *MUST* make 
configuration changes on the secondary, in order to inform them that 
they should now serve DNS for the domain in question.  Period.

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

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