Primary/Secondary and a separate DA.

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Devileyezz

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Hello,

DISCLAIMER: Very newbish on how these control panels work.

My primary server has DA on it.
However, both my primary and secondary DNS servers are two separate servers setup with Webmin.

Now, when I add a domain on DA, it adds everything to it's own bind.
What do I need to do to get those dns records created on my primary DNS server without having to go through it in Webmin for that box?

Any alternatives, please?

TIA.
 
Marshall said:
One option is a set of scripts coded by Jeff which is located at: http://directadmin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9247
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Hello Marshall,

I'm such a newb that I get scared of betas. I'm sure Jeff's script is a fine piece of code.
However, I'd like to try something else. (Something about betas, I tell you.)

I just thought, maybe make the DA server a master? But then, see, that defeats the purpose of having two separate DNS servers whose main job is to respond to DNS queries. You know what I mean?

Thanks, Marshall.
 
If you make DA a master you'll still need code similar to what I wrote. We can install the package, but we charge for it.

If you read through the BIND documentation you'll see that they've intentionally left out how to do what you want to do; they've left that as an exercise to the user :) .

You may be able to find a commercial package that'll work.

Yes, it's beta. And yes, it does have a few issues. But lots of us use it. We've used it for thousands of domains.

Jeff
 
jlasman said:
If you make DA a master you'll still need code similar to what I wrote. We can install the package, but we charge for it.

If you read through the BIND documentation you'll see that they've intentionally left out how to do what you want to do; they've left that as an exercise to the user :) .

You may be able to find a commercial package that'll work.

Yes, it's beta. And yes, it does have a few issues. But lots of us use it. We've used it for thousands of domains.

Jeff
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Hello Jeff,

Maybe I will give it a whirl, except, I'll have to see what your pricing will be like.
Please let me know in PM.

Thanks.
 
Besides this, is there any other way, like manually taking care of the DA named.conf to become the master, and the other two DNS servers becoming slaves?
 
Devileyezz said:
Besides this, is there any other way, like manually taking care of the DA named.conf to become the master, and the other two DNS servers becoming slaves?
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That's what our free solution does.

It takes the information from the master records from the named.conf file on the master server, and converts them into slave records for the named.conf on each slave server.

It automatically checks against duplicates as duplicates will keep the nameserver from running.

It has nothing to do with DirectAdmin; it doesn't require DirectAdmin. You can do everything it does manually; read each master record line in the named.conf file on your DA server and manually create slave records in the named.conf files on your slave servers, then restart named after you make changes on the slave servers.

The solution is free; I paid to have it written and gave it to the open source community some time ago. I'll send you a PM with information on our rates for installing it on your servers.

Jeff
 
jlasman said:
That's what our free solution does.

It takes the information from the master records from the named.conf file on the master server, and converts them into slave records for the named.conf on each slave server.

It automatically checks against duplicates as duplicates will keep the nameserver from running.

It has nothing to do with DirectAdmin; it doesn't require DirectAdmin. You can do everything it does manually; read each master record line in the named.conf file on your DA server and manually create slave records in the named.conf files on your slave servers, then restart named after you make changes on the slave servers.

The solution is free; I paid to have it written and gave it to the open source community some time ago. I'll send you a PM with information on our rates for installing it on your servers.

Jeff
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I think I'm going to try it. :)
 
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