Easyest transfer way for nameserver with 1 ip?

[Richard G]

Easyest transfer way for nameserver with 1 ip? [solved]

I've read a lot of topics here and elsewhere, but I still don't quit understand everything.

I got 1 ip for use with Directadmin and my client wants to run a nameserver on it, so I need 2 ip addresses. Now it seemd a good idea to use such service from easydns or zoneedit or something like that.

It's no problem to ad an A record and setup nameservers with both IP's on DA.

Now the zones from the DA server need to be transferred to the 2nd nameserver, correct? And that is were I don't quite understand.
What is the best way to do that? I'm not good in writing api and scripts and I think a master/slave server is not what I need but I could be wrong.

My customer just needs to transfer new domain zones to the ns2 (from easydns or zoneedit or something like that) and that they are deleted when deleted from the DA server, that's all a ns2 has to do, correct?

What is the easyest way to do that last part?

 

[Arieh]

Just my 2 cents:

You could look into multi server, let the customer use another server of yourself (could charge for it of course), but admin is required so you would need to restrict things: http://www.directadmin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=44371&page=1
The pre in this is that it's realtime add/edit/delete by DA.

Some companies offer secondary dns for free to their customers, https://www.transip.nl/vragen/105-transip-secondary-draaien-voor-domeinen/ for instance is a popular in NL as you probably know. It says there to be sure to have the serial numbers updated when change (DA does this when you make a change in dns), so when it checks the serial and sees its different I'm guessing it will update everything. In case of a deletion it could be that they just remove it as well after the first check but you could ask them.

There are other options as well maybe someone else has some ideas.

 

[Richard G]

Thank you for the suggestions Arieh, but we have 2 other DA servers which already make use of multiserver, so no room left.
Next to that, I suggested to use the 2nd nameserver of Transip, where the domain is registered, but the customer did not want to that.
The second ip or nameserver is not a big problem, as said we can use one from easydns or zoneedit too.

I'm just wondering how the update of DNS will go. Multiserver sends all zone files automatically on a change.
But as far as I know, this does not happen with external dns (so when Multiserver is not used), I probably need a script for that, but I'm not sure, with Transip it's not needed as far as I can see.

So I'm still open to suggestions if somebody has a clue.

 

[Richard G]

Problem already solved. It's a lot easyer then I thought.
I thougth I still might need the master/slave script to do the zone transfers, but I just checked both nameservers with SIDN check and everything was alright.
At first Easydns gave a soa serial number problem, but that seemed to have fixed itself and now the correct zone file is visible there also, so it seems it gets the zonefiles automatically. So it seems there is no transfer script needed.
Ofcourse named.conf must be change to allow transfers, which was already done.