Slave server config

MidWest · 10-13-2002, 04:25 PM

I feel as if I am missing something when I have read pages on setting up a slave server. Seems simple enough. All I need is:

zone "masterdomain.com" {
type slave;
file "masterdomain";
masters { 1.2.3.4; };
};

zone "3.2.1.in-addr.arpa" in {
type slave;
file "masterdomain.reverse";
masters { 1.2.3.4; };
};

is that it for the zone files? Is there a full SOA file for each zone? By that I mean with all the NS, A, and CNAME records included? Documentation I have seen seems to leave the records off. Thanks.

unSpawn · 10-14-2002, 05:27 PM

AFAIK a slave gets the SOA records from the primary nameserver. Start it up and you should see the db files appear in the designated dir. Btw I can't see no errors. What does the named log say (bump up debug level if necessary)?

MidWest · 10-15-2002, 07:18 PM

this setup is in a classroom environment with the instructors machine as the Master. I will set up mine as a slave on Thursday. I just wanted to make sure that all I needed to do was to put those two zone statements in named.conf. The master will do the rest then?

MidWest · 10-19-2002, 05:45 PM

thx for your help. i got it working after spending about an hour or so retraceing my steps. in my zone statements, i had put "master" and not "masterS"