views and master server

Barry Margolin barry.margolin at level3.com
Tue Aug 26 18:22:08 UTC 2003


In article <big5tm$1ove$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
Pilar Sanchez  <Pilar.Sanchez at cedex.es> wrote:
>When working with views,  is it necessary that BOTH dns servers, MASTER 
>and SLAVE, have two ip's addresses, one for the internal view and the 
>other one for the external?
>In some examples I've found, the Slave has two ip's addresses, one for 
>each view, and the Master has only one.

The slave needs to have two IP's, so that the master will send the correct
version of each zone when the slave requests the zone transfers.

The master doesn't need to have two IP's, since views match on the client
address, not the server address.

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