redundant servers

[Kevin Darcy]

RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote:

> ok i run freebsd 4.8 and bind9 i am using the views feature which works
> excellently.
> I own two domains say for example domain1.ca and domain2.ca for now i
> only have one server.  in order to host the two domains what do i need
> to do with bind add another zone ??.

Yes, add an additional zone definition to named.conf.

> Also soon i will have two servers at different locations i.e. different
> ip addresses and would like to host both domains from it as well so that
> if one server losses it ip address the other server will still run
> everything is this possible.

Yes, define the zones as "type slave" on the other machine.


- Kevin