(really stupid) Zone file question

[Bruce Dawson]

On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 10:48 -0400, Derek Martin wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 09:03:10AM -0400, Fred wrote:
> > I have a name server running on computer A. I've just acquired computer
> > B, and I want that to be a slave NS to computer A.
> > 
> > There is a *per zone* way of doing this with Bind. Problem is, I am
> > adding domain names -- zones -- frequently to computer A, and want a way
> > to slave *everything* automatically to computer B. On cursory look into
> > the Bind docs, I see no obvious way to set this up.
> 
> AFAIK there is no such animal.  Rather than doing your rsync solution,
> I think you're better off writing a script to update the zones in
> named.conf by parsing the zones on the master and converting them to
> slave zones, and doing a proper zone transfer.  Let DNS work for you.
> If your slave is a 1 for 1 coopy of the zones on the master, this
> should be easy.
> 
> This is an excellent idea for a feature request.  A slave should have
> the ability to contact a master and ask what zones it should slave, so
> that a minimal config can be installed without requiring any
> maintenance...

You *may* be able to do this with wildcard zone update policies and rndc
from Bind9. I haven't tried it, and the BIND documents aren't very clear
on the subject.
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