webserver test environment

[David Botham]

bind-users-bounce at isc.org wrote on 02/26/2004 09:42:36 PM:
> On Thursday 26 February 2004 11:38 am, Gary wrote:
> 
> > I assumed that I set up a master zone file and a slave for the two
> > nameservers (with my two IPs). You mention that this is wrong. How
> > should I set it up? With a 'backup' primary as the second nameserver?
> 
> The concept of master and slave is local to the instance of bind 
> running.

Actually, the concept of master and slave has no context at the server 
level.  It has context only at the zone level.  A server can be master for 
some zones and slave for others.  Some people say things like "my master 
name server" and "slave name server" because they use one name server to 
load all of their zones as master and the other name server to load their 
slave zones.  However, it is important to remember that the terms master 
and slave pertain only to zones, not servers.


Hope this helps,

Dave...


> 
> The instance of bind running is on a per (physical) server basis.
> 
> You've got one physical server with one physical instance of bind.
> 
> So the relevant record in the /etc/bind/conf configuration file looks 
> something like this:
> 
> zone "example.com" { type master; file "/var/named/example.com.db"; };
> 
> The relevant zone file (in this case /var/named/example.com.db) should 
> have two NS records, one with each of the two IP#s.
> 
> The box should answer for both IP#s.
> 
> And if bind isn't configured by default to answer on all IP#s, then it 
> should be specifically configured to answer on the two IP#s.
> 
> I don't think I've missed anything, but if I have, then perhaps someone 
> will chime in and let me know.
> 
> > I can't help thinking it must be a very common scenario though.
> 
> All too common.
> 
> > (As far as the local testing goes, half of the incentive was to
> > simply test the httpd set up - I guess that using hosts file is
> > simplest for this. )
> 
> That's what I thought your interest was, and that's why I answered the 
> way I did.
> 
> Jeff
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