BIND9 slave

[Chris Thompson]

On Dec 7 2009, Kevin Darcy wrote:

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>Or, you can run a script on the slaves which consults some centralized 
>"zone slaving database" to determine what zones to slave, or to stop 
>slaving. This "zone slaving database" can take many forms. One idea is 
>to represent this list as a special zone within DNS itself, containing 
>just one entry per zone to be slaved. I prefer using PTR records for 
>this, over, say, TXT records, since PTR records can benefit from label 
>compression.

Not to mention that they guarantee correct domain name syntax, and the
absence of duplicates (due to case-insensitivity). Ever since I first
saw you recommend this, I have wondered "why did I ever think TXT records
were the right way to do it?" ...

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Chris Thompson
Email: cet1 at cam.ac.uk