BIND9 slave

[Kevin Darcy]

Chris Thompson wrote:
> On Dec 7 2009, Kevin Darcy wrote:
>
> [...snip...]
>> 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?" ...
>
Flexibility is both the greatest strength and greatest weakness of TXT 
records. We don't use TXT records for *anything* in production, although 
we have an LDAP database maintained in parallel with DNS that gets 
populated with various forms of textual data. Keeping that stuff in LDAP 
makes it a lot more searchable.

                                                                         
                           - Kevin