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Old 01-13-2011, 07:50 PM   #1
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DNS at multiple locations


My company has 2 locations. I have a server running BIND, Apache, and MySQL. I'm setting up a second server just in case the primary goes down. I'm sure it's bad form to it the way I'm doing it, but how might I go about configuing my backup? Should I do it as a Secondary DNS server?
 
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Yes, a secondary DNS server. Mirroring is quite easy and automatic.
For example, take these chapters: http://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/networ...ns/ch04_08.htm

Beware that locations of the zone files in the master and slave could be different. In the master they are stored in /etc/bind9, but on the slave in /var/something. This is because the synchronisation process is not allowed to write in /etc. If follows from the configuration, but once I spent 2 days troubleshooting on this.

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Old 01-13-2011, 08:21 PM   #3
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Beautiful. I imagine I should also have pointers to my secondary web server as well.
 
  


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