• NAME
• SYNOPSIS
• DESCRIPTION
• EXAMPLES
• named.boot
• special zone file
• AUTHOR
• ADVERTISEMENT
• STATUS

NAME

 zmaster -- automatically maintain nameserver zone files

SYNOPSIS

 zmaster special-zone-name

DESCRIPTION

 Zmaster is a tool for maintaining named.boot include files.  It is 
 meant to be run periodically on secondary name servers so that they 
 can automatically discover what zones (domains) they should be transfering
 (secondarying) from the primary server.

 To do this, the primary server must tell them which domains to take.
 This is done by creating a special zone that can be listed to find
 out which zones should be taken.

 In this special zone, there should be a host called 'ns'.  This host
 should have an A record that specifies a nameserver that can provide
 a listing of the hosts in the special domain.

EXAMPLES

 The following examples should illistrate what's required to run this.

named.boot

 In the named.boot file on the secondary system, include a line like:

 include /etc/named/ns2.idiom.com.boot

 In the named.boot file on the primary system, include a line like:

 primary ns2.idiom.com ns2.idiom.com

special zone file

 In the special zone file, in this case, ns2.idiom.com, include the 
 following:

 $ORIGIN ns2.idiom.com.
 @       IN      SOA     idiom.com.      muir.idiom.com. (
                         1996031908 86400 3600 2592000 86400 
                         )
         IN      NS      ns.idiom.com.
         IN      NS      ns3.idiom.com.
 @                       IN      A       206.80.31.66
 ns                      IN      A       140.174.82.4
 dream.com               IN      A       140.174.82.4
 truedev.com             IN      A       140.174.82.4

 This establishes that two domains (dream.com and truedev.com) are to
 be transfered.  They are to be transfered from the address given in the
 corrosponding A record.  The listing of this information will come from
 ns.ns2.idiom.com.  In addition, there is a host, ns2.idiom.com defined
 that will be ignored by zmaster.

AUTHOR

 David Muir Sharnoff, <muir@idiom.com>

ADVERTISEMENT

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STATUS

 Status: waiting since 1999 for someone to buy the service

 Download: here

These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.