several master ip's for a slave zone

Anand Buddhdev anandb at ripe.net
Thu Nov 3 22:38:49 UTC 2011


On 03/11/2011 23:14, hugo hugoo wrote:

Hi Hugo,

> I have seen that for a slave zone, it is possible to configure several master IP's.
> Why this possibility?
> How does it works if several master zone can be used for the zone transfer?

This allows for resiliency. In case one of the master servers is
unreachable, BIND can try the next master in the list.

Anand Buddhdev
RIPE NCC



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