Search Again: Re: Secondary Server From: Dean Suhr Date: Saturday, May 5, 2001 Time: 4:06:08 pm Hi Chris, I run a slave server and have used this process. Is there a way that with one entry a server can slave to all of the DNS domains that another server manages? Perhaps it's a bit of perspective that I am looking for ... When a domain is registered (such as with NSI or Joker) you enter one, usually two or more primary name servers as part of the domain's records. This has to be done domain by domain. At the IP associated with each name server there need to be entries associated with the specific domain. If one of those domains is a slave then it can be getting its information from the master (in the QDNS environment you will have set up the domain entry and then created a slave). In the QDNS environment you can enter as many NS entries as you would like. Do these additional entries (those in QDNS, but not at the registrar) ever get used? It seems that once the name server is contacted that it would not need to contact another name server unless it did not find what it needed there. Is the additional NS information cached and perhaps used the next time a look up is needed? Now - what if I want to swap secondary services with another user. It seems that I would have to make a slave server entry for every domain that I host? Is there a server to server command that would simply say - be a secondary to everything I have? Of course, your registrar would never know that you now have an additional slave. Dean >on 5/5/01 10:10 AM, Men & Mice Support at cbuxton@menandmice.com wrote: > At 12:36 PM -0300 5/5/01, Cali wrote: >> Can anyone tell me how to set up Quickdns 3.0.1 to act as a secondary DNS >> server? I cannot find instructions on the manual. >> >> Thanks. Carlos > > We've changed the terminology to keep up with changes in how other > DNS servers use the terms. "Secondary" is now called "slave". You can > configure QuickDNS to act as a slave server by following these steps: > > - Launch QuickDNS Pro Manager. > - Connect to your server. > - Select the server in question in the Manager window. > - From the Server menu, select Add Slave Zone. > - Type in the name of the zone (or domain) and the IP address of the > master (or primary) server. > - Click on the Add button. > ____________________________________________________________________ > Chris Buxton Men & Mice > cbuxton@menandmice.com We Make DNS Easy! >

Messages In This Thread: Secondary Server by Robert Hyde on Dec 25, 1999 at 5:36:00 am Re: Secondary Server by Men & Mice Support on Dec 27, 1999 at 4:58:00 am Secondary Server by Robert Hyde on Dec 27, 1999 at 10:34:00 pm Re: Secondary Server by Peter Apockotos on Jan 11, 2000 at 8:55:00 pm Re: Secondary Server by Peter Apockotos on Jan 12, 2000 at 1:57:00 am Secondary Server by Cali on May 5, 2001 at 9:17:45 am Re: Secondary Server by Men & Mice Support on May 5, 2001 at 10:11:01 am Re: Secondary Server by Cali on May 5, 2001 at 11:51:42 am Re: Secondary Server by Dean Suhr on May 5, 2001 at 4:06:08 pm Re: Secondary Server by Men & Mice Support on May 5, 2001 at 4:37:55 pm secondary server by Peter Duchateau on Feb 18, 2002 at 11:56:06 pm Re: secondary server by Men & Mice Support on Feb 19, 2002 at 1:09:17 am Re: secondary server by Peter Duchateau on Feb 19, 2002 at 3:23:05 am