Slave nameserver question

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

On 01.10.08 18:16, Cherney John-CJC030 wrote:
> Besides being a bad idea from a general design perspective, is it
> possible to set up a nameserver as a slave for a domain, but have the
> masters field point to itself? ("I am a slave for this information, and
> the master is myself.") In thinking about it, it seems like it should be
> OK. The slave will always be able to contact the master, so the data
> should never go stale. The serial number is always up to date, so there
> won't be any bandwidth used in zone transfers. Is there something
> somewhere that would make this not work? (Something in the code for
> executing refreshes or parsing the named.conf file?) 

It is possible, you will probably need to set also-notify to the slave's IP
on real master. Why do you want to do this?

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