secoundary ns - not authoritative

[Kevin Darcy]

Alexander Newald wrote:

> "Gaebel Michael (MGI DCS)" <Gaebel at mgi.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:ajgme9$8hq3$1 at isrv4.isc.org...
> >
> > Hello you have to say, that he is a scondary:
> >
> > zone "example.com" IN {
> >   type slave;
> >   file "filename
> >   masters port 53 {
> >     master-ip-adress
> >   };
> > };
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Alexander Newald [mailto:alexander at newald.de]
> > Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 4:48 PM
> > To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
> > Subject: secoundary ns - not authoritative
>
> [question about 2nd ns and not authoritative]
>
> So it is not possible to tell the secoundary ns that it should be
> authoritative for all domains that are send by zone transfers from the
> primary ns without createing an entry in the named.conf for each zone?

This functionality is not built into BIND, no.

But many folks script this. For example, you could have a special zone --
e.g. call it "_zones." or something like that. It would contain one
record, e.g. a TXT or PTR record, per zone hosted. The slaves could slave
that special zone and whenever they detect that something has been added
to it, add the new slave definition to /etc/named.conf and reload.


- Kevin