Hello, I just joined the forums but have been using ubuntu for years. I was wondering if anyone was able to help me with a simple question I had regarding a bind9 master / slave configuration.
It's a similar setup to such as this;
http://aesptux.com/2011/11/08/config...ave-on-ubuntu/
I had no problem setting it up, and for all intents and purposes it works. I can ping / nslookup / reverse lookup the hosts on my small lan. I had one question regarding the slave device's zone files, should these files ( for instance, /etc/bind/zones/test1.db") be transferred to the slave? If I shut down the master, the slave still works as the primary, and the hosts can still do the same dns requests without error. However these files are not there, I'm wondering if this is some how saved in memory? I assumed they would be transferred over and stay in /etc/bind/zones/test1.db etc etc, but nothing is there. I changed up the slave configuration a few times, specifying the same file names, and then different names; and neither seemed to matter. Which is why I perhaps thought it might be saved in memory now. Anyways I can provide the actual configuration file examples and such, just thought this might be an easy answer for someone.
Much thanks ubuntu community,
Kody Abney.
(P.S. both are running 12.04 precise 64bit, with no apparent trouble.)
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