BIND 9: Configure Slave Zones

Wed, 25 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Today we are going over one of the fundamental aspects of administering a DNS infrastructure, that is maintaining consistency across multiple replicas. The simplest method of accomplishing this is to have a master/slave relationship. Essentially you have a read-write (master) copy and a read-only (slave) copy of the zone. The slave looks to the master for information on changes.

Basic BIND Configuration

Here we are going to look at the key components of a BIND configuration, this should be the same regardless of if this is a master or a slave server.

Dns on the bin

BIND 9: Configure Slave Zones