multiple slave zones pointing to same file?

[Doug Barton]

On 10/2/2010 3:15 PM, online-reg wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Thanks Doug, but I'm not entirely clear on what you're recommending? It
> seems like you're saying it's OK, but then you're saying BIND doesn't
> like it?

I'm guessing then that you're not running BIND on a Unix system. In any 
case, Mark is in a much better position than I to state categorically, 
"Don't do that" so I am happy to defer to his wisdom.

Just use different files for each zone. Yes, it's a bit of duplication 
on the file system, but that's not the end of the world. Disk is cheap, 
DNS failure is expensive.


hth,

Doug

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