bind configs over NFS - problem with transfer-source

Pete Ehlke pde at ehlke.net
Wed Sep 8 21:40:55 UTC 2004


On Wed Sep 08, 2004 at 14:05:38 -0700, Dale wrote:
>
>I've been sharing named.conf files over nfs for a couple years now on
>bind9 and it's been working just fine.  The problem I'm having now is
>that  in doing a zone transfer, bind uses the IP bound to eth0 instead
>of the (an) IP in listen-on{}.
>
>listen-on{} accepts as many IPs as you can throw at it, and bind just
>skips the address if it's not bound to the NIC.  I need to use
>transfer-source now (bind is bound to eth0:0), and I can't think of a
>workaround that would allow me to keep sharing my bind configs while
>getting transfer-source to be unique on each system that shares the
>files.
>
>Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can do this?  I'm really not
>interested in changing the layout of the nfs configs at the moment, so
>a good workaround or another option would be nice.
>
Kill the nfs scheme. rsync is your friend.

-Pete


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