Setup Secondary name server for redundancy

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Fri Nov 2 15:10:10 UTC 2001


In article <9rtj4m$nlr at pub3.rc.vix.com>, MattRix <mattrix1978 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>I would like to setup a secondary name server on another machine for
>backup and redundancy.
>
>the zone file of domains name will remain in the primary, any changes
>and updates of the zone file (domains name) , the primary nameserver
>will notify/updates the secondary nameserver automatically.
>
>anyone gives help will be aprreciated.

That's exactly how primary and secondary nameservers are supposed to work.
You shouldn't need to do anything special.  See the section of DNS&BIND
titled "Running a Slave Name Server".

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