multiple slave zones pointing to same file?

[John Wingenbach]

  Simply set the "file" option to the same name on the slave server.

On 10/2/2010 2:59 PM, Doug Barton wrote:
> On 10/2/2010 11:16 AM, online-reg wrote:
>> Hi All: I’m building a new Bind 9.7.1-P2 slave server and am taking an
>> opportunity to review my conf files.
>>
>> I have a number of zones on the primary that all point to the same zone
>> configuration file. On my slave server, is there any way to configure
>> named.conf so that multiple zones are all “aliased” to the same zone
>> config?
>>
>> Previously, I was using a basic slave config statement for each zone:
>>
>> zone "domain.com" { type slave; file "domain.com.zone"; masters {
>> 192.168.0.1; }; };
>>
>> but, it seems like a lot of unnecessary files are being created?
>>
>> I thought about using the same file name for all the slave zones
>> statements in named.conf, but wouldn't that force the file to be
>> overwritten multiple times for no reason?
>
> How often does the file change? If the answer is "not often" then a 
> little file system churn is harmless.
>
> IME the best way to do this on a Unix'y system is to use hard links. 
> That way if you ever need to change one of them to be its own file 
> it's trivial to do so. Also IME, BIND doesn't react well to having 
> multiple slave zones sharing the same file, but that may have improved 
> in more recent versions, I haven't tried it for a couple of years now.
>
>
> hth,
>
> Doug
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