Search Again: Re: Examples or docs on primary/secondary setup From: Men & Mice Support Date: Thursday, July 12, 2001 Time: 2:05:40 am At 7:36 PM -0500 7/11/01, mrkshrt@transparentsolutions.com wrote: >I am looking for some kind of documentation or something telling how to set >up two QuickDNS servers (on Mac OS9) that mirror each other. >They can be two masters, master-slave, I don't care. >Right now the way we are doing it is copying the zone files from the main >server to the secondary server, which seems like a really poor way to do it. What version of QuickDNS are you using? For QuickDNS 3: =============== - Connect to the second server. - Remove all zones. (I have an AppleScript to do this in QuickDNS 3.5.) - Add all zones back in as slave zones. (An AppleScript is included to do just this in QuickDNS 3.5.) For new zones, make sure you're connected to both servers when you create the zone. Then when it asks what server(s) to create the zone on, you can select one server as master and the other as slave. Both servers will be configured at the same time. For QuickDNS 2: =============== - On the second server, open all of the files in the Primary Data folder. - Open the Secondary Data window from the Window menu in QuickDNS Pro Admin. - Run a certain AppleScript: <http://interaction.menandmice.com/applescript/display?recid=12> - Quit QuickDNS Pro Admin. - Trash all the files in the Primary Data folder. For new zones, once the zone has been added to the primary server, open up QuickDNS Pro Admin on the secondary server. Then open that Secondary Data window again, create a blank record, and fill in the blanks as in the entries the AppleScript created. Make sure that filenames are 29 characters or less and are unique. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice cbuxton@menandmice.com We Make DNS Easy!

Messages In This Thread: Examples or docs on primary/secondary setup by mrkshrt@transparentsolutions.com on Jul 11, 2001 at 5:37:12 pm Re: Examples or docs on primary/secondary setup by Men & Mice Support on Jul 12, 2001 at 2:05:40 am