slave on per-zone basis only?

[Danny Mayer]

At 09:31 AM 2/20/02, j2n tech wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I have a general question about the configuration of slave nameservers.
>Does a slave have to have an entry for every zone that a master serves?

No.

>Such as:
>
>zone "foobar.com" {
>                         type slave;
>                         file "db.foobar.com";
>                         masters {  192.168.1.235;  };
>};
>
>Does an entry such as this need to added for *every* domain that this server
>is a slave for?

No.  A slave zone only needs to be set up for those domains that have been
delegated to it. A server can be a master for some zones and slaves for others
and the masters/slaves for those zones can be on any other servers.

>   Or is there a global command that will tell the server to
>slave for every domain a specific master serves?

No.


>--matt

Danny