order of masters IP addresses in slave/stub zone?

Barry Margolin barmar at alum.mit.edu
Thu Feb 26 11:08:39 UTC 2015


In article <mailman.1698.1424913638.26362.bind-users at lists.isc.org>,
 Hillary Nelson <nelsonhillary8 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was asked to add some backup master IP addresses to a slave zone file for
> some HCP system, but those IPs not active and can't do zone transfer until
> system failover.
> 
> My question is, does the order of the master ip list matters, so named
> always tries
> first ones until it fails tries next one? Or named pick the IP from the
> list randomly to do zone transfer?

It tries them all. Any master that has a higher serial number than the 
current serial will be pulled from.

-- 
Barry Margolin
Arlington, MA


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