Re: administering 1,000 zone files

how about just rsync and cron? Want it more secure? rsync over ssh
and cron :-)

--Bryan


On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 12:47:35 +0100, Mariano Cunietti <mcunietti@enter.it> wrote:
> Hi,
> I work for an italian ISP and I manage two Bind 9.2.1 servers whhich
> serves 1,000 zones. Currently we use a master and a slave bind 9.2.1. A
> simple perl script adds new zone statements to the master named.conf
> (locally) and to the slave one (mounted via NFS, shame on me). Zone
> files are obviously transfered via bind features.
>
> Considering security issues I think there should be another way to do
> that. What I'm actually looking for is a way to synchronize named.conf
> on both servers: each time I add a new zone to the master, I want the
> correspondig slave statement to be created on the slave server.
>
> This could be accomplished through a (perl?) script, maybe using a
> shared SQL database which is populated via web.
>
> My questions are:
> a) can you suggest me such a tool to perform these tasks?
> b) does bind 9 support such a built-in feature (automatic sync of
> master->slave named.conf)?
>
> TIA
>
> Mariano
>
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