zones question

[Mark_Andrews at isc.org]

> Hi,
> 
>   Would there be any problems with using the zone files from a slave
> on a master. That is take all my "db" files (not the named.conf) from
> my slave server copy them onto my master and run bind. I have tried it
> and it seems ok, log files are clean and operation is normal. This is
> more of a should I have done this as opposed to can I do this.
> 
> thanks,
> joe

	This was perfectly reasonable thing to do.  BIND uses master
	files for both slave and master zones.
	
	To promote a slave to master all you need to do is change the
	zone type from slave to master, remove the masters clause and 
	update the SOA MNAME (origin) to reflect the master.

	Mark
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