Search Again: Re: Primary/Slave Issue From: Men & Mice Support Date: Saturday, April 10, 2004 Time: 11:54:59 am At 10:11 AM -0700 4/10/04, Warren Michelsen wrote: >At 2:15 PM -0800 3/25/04, Men & Mice Support wrote: >>Sorry for the long delay. >> >>Having one server as master (primary) and one as slave is the >>normal way things work. It doesn't sound like you have a problem in >>your configuration. > >In the past, all my zones were in the Primary data folder on both >servers and when I updated via QDNS, it updated both at once, since >I was connected to both when the changes were made. Right, in 3.5.1, this works, though you won't be able to create further zones in this way. This is not the best way to do things. >If I'm going to go the master/slave route, there's not much point in >connecting to both with QDNS manager. Sure there is. If you don't connect to both, with QuickDNS 3.5.x, you end up waiting for the periodic refresh check before the slave server gets the update. If you do connect to both, then QuickDNS Manager will tell the slave server to get the new version right away (within a few seconds, anyway). In later versions, the only benefit to connecting to a slave server is when creating or deleting zones, since the DNS Notify mechanism takes care of making sure the slave servers get the update. >In any case, I copied the primary data file to the second server >(deleting the secondary entry for that zone) and now things appear >to be working as they used to. Just so you know, later versions of QuickDNS will not behave the same way, updating both servers at once. QuickDNS is really designed for one server and zero or more slaves for each zone. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice Customer Support Specialist Making DNS Easy

Messages In This Thread: Primary/Slave Issue by Warren Michelsen on Mar 15, 2004 at 6:29:14 am Re: Primary/Slave Issue by Men & Mice Support on Mar 26, 2004 at 1:21:05 am Primary/Slave Issue by Patrick Windmiller on Mar 26, 2004 at 2:22:49 pm Primary/Slave Issue by Patrick Windmiller on Mar 26, 2004 at 2:27:04 pm Re: Primary/Slave Issue by Men & Mice Support on Mar 26, 2004 at 3:35:29 pm Re: Primary/Slave Issue by Warren Michelsen on Apr 10, 2004 at 10:13:18 am Re: Primary/Slave Issue by Men & Mice Support on Apr 10, 2004 at 11:54:59 am Re: Primary/Slave Issue by Warren Michelsen on Apr 10, 2004 at 12:45:03 pm Re: Primary/Slave Issue by Men & Mice Support on Apr 10, 2004 at 1:02:51 pm Re: Primary/Slave Issue by Warren Michelsen on Apr 10, 2004 at 1:18:00 pm Re: Primary/Slave Issue by Men & Mice Support on Apr 10, 2004 at 2:37:13 pm