Hi, On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 06:22:21PM +0300, Juha-Matti Tapio wrote: > On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 03:47:42PM +0200, randall wrote: > > Stephen Gran wrote: > >>> i assumed it would not be necessary to manually add each new zone on each > >>> slave dns server, at least it does not make much sense in my reasoning, > >>> hope i'm not to wrong here ;) > >> You are wrong here :) > > mmmmm.....at least i'm happy to find out then.. > > > > anyway to automate this process? seems like a lot of manual work here. > > One option is to use PowerDNS on the slave. It has the so called > supermaster feature where the slave can be configured to add > automatically any unknown zones for which a notify is received from a > trusted IP address. I would second this. I was just about to respond recommending it when I got to the end of the thread and saw this recommendation. A couple of minor niggles I have found with PowerDNS in supermaster mode: - The zone has to have the slave listed as an NS - When zones are removed they will stay in the PowerDNS database They are not hard to work around. Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting Encrypted mail welcome - keyid 0x604DE5DB
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