[DNS] Use an external 2nd DNS

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luppie

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I have DA running as my NS1 DNS server.
Now is my rackhosting comp. offering me a secondary DNS service.

Do i have to configure some on my DA machine to make zone transfers possible ? I want the DA machine to be pri. master.

Can anybody tell me what or how to do it.
 
luppie said:
I have DA running as my NS1 DNS server.
Now is my rackhosting comp. offering me a secondary DNS service.

Do i have to configure some on my DA machine to make zone transfers possible ? I want the DA machine to be pri. master.

Can anybody tell me what or how to do it.
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The way we do this, is adding the secondairy nameserver on our DA machines for every domain.

So you'll get:

www.domain.ext NS yourdnsname
www.domain.ext NS seconddns

This way your DNS will automaticaly (correct me if i'm wrong, been a long time ;) ) notify every Nameserver of any change, so it will get your zones.

Be sure that your provider does ADD you as a master server in their secondairy dns ;)
 
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fusionictnl said:
This way your DNS will automaticaly (correct me if i'm wrong, been a long time ;) ) notify every Nameserver of any change, so it will get your zones.

Be sure that your provider does ADD you as a master server in their secondairy dns ;)
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I do this but I dont my primary dns notifying my slave to auto add the zones, how does this work?
 
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Chrysalis said:
I do this but I dont my primary dns notifying my slave to auto add the zones, how does this work?
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Well We use PowerDNS. In wich we add the supermasters.
 
Interesting, does DA work well with powerdns from the go or some hacking involved?
 
Chrysalis said:
Interesting, does DA work well with powerdns from the go or some hacking involved?
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The secondairy dns is a plain Linux machine, no Control Panel etc on it.

Just the basic powerdns etc. setup.
 
Sorry I meant the primary dns, the one that is master sending out the notifications.
 
I asked my provider to change the nameservers for my domain to my own DNS but the provider got this message :

*****Error modifying name servers: Nameserver ns1.luppie.net cannot be registered*****

the ns1.luppie.net is my DA box.


Has somebody an idea why this is'nt possible ?
 
Chrysalis said:
Sorry I meant the primary dns, the one that is master sending out the notifications.
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Sorry :) The DA box is standard installation with bind and nothing fancy is configured just an extra NS record to the second DNS ;)
 
luppie said:
I asked my provider to change the nameservers for my domain to my own DNS but the provider got this message :

*****Error modifying name servers: Nameserver ns1.luppie.net cannot be registered*****

the ns1.luppie.net is my DA box.


Has somebody an idea why this is'nt possible ?
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probably due to the lack of a glue record, although it could be something else.
 
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