 | | | transfer master Windows DNS to slave BIND DNS | transfer master Windows DNS to slave BIND DNS 2005-08-11 - By Nalin Dahyabhai
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On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 11:31:46AM -0700, taroon-list@(protected) wrote:
> Hi..I want to configure a slave BIND DNS to
> automatically get the master zone abc.com update from
> a windows DNS server (172.16.1.42). Below is the my
> /etc/named.conf file.
>
> more /etc/named.conf
> zone "abc.com" in {
> type slave;
> file "db.abc";
> masters { 172.16.1.42; };
> allow-transfer { any; };
> allow-query { any;};
> notify yes;
> };
>
> Is that correct? Can BIND get the update from Windows
> DNS?
It can. You may need to modify the zone's properties in the Windows DNS
administration tool to allow zone transfers to your slave server.
I'm unsure of when or how a Windows-based DNS server notifies its slaves
that they need to pull down new versions of a given zone's data. This
is just a guess, but I'd expect it to at least notify your nameserver if
it is listed as one of the servers for the zone (in the zone's NS
record).
> I have question on the zone file db.abc, since this is
> a slave DNS zone, do I have to create this file by
> myself or it will auto copy the info from the windows
> DNS master? Then where this file supposed to be if I
> need to creat it or auto-created during transfer?
The default location for the file will be the one given as the
"directory" option ("/var/named" on my box), but for slaves you usually
want to list them as "slave/db.abc" so that they will be placed in
"/var/named/slaves", a location in which the nameserver can actually
modify files. If you do, then the file will be created when the zone is
first transferred.
> How do I verify the master zone record being
> transfered to here?
named will log that it has completed the zone transfer successfully. If
you're storing the slave data in a file, it will have data in it.
HTH,
Nalin
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