Same instnace of bind working as both master/slave

[Barry Margolin]

In article <a6lvqa$4b5 at pub3.rc.vix.com>, sj <santosjha at yahoo.com> wrote:
>I am new to bind/dns technology. I was wondering can I configure same
>instance of bind as both master/slave. I mean master for a set of
>slave servers and slave for another master server, where from it will
>get its update.

I think I misunderstood your question in my previous response.  Now that I
reread it, I think you mean ServerA transfers a zone from ServerB, and
ServerB transfers it from ServerC.

Yes, you can do this.  You can perform a zone transfer from any
authoritative server, and both masters and slaves are authoritative.  We
use this setup for all domains where our customers are primary: we have a
single server (whose name is not advertised in NS records) that performs
zone transfers from the customers' masters, and then the advertised servers
perform zone transfers from this single server.

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