On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 12:42, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am Fr, den 22.10.2004 schrieb Roy W. Erickson um 19:26: ... > > > > > I would like to try a fail-over pair if possible. Does Fedora have > > > > fail-over capability? > > > > > > This is where master and slave DNS come to play. bind9, which ships with > > > Fedora, supports master / slave setups since ages. > > > > When the primary goes down I recall that the clients timeout in a bad > > way until they fall back to the secondary. Is there a way to avoid that? > > Or is that what the slave does? > > The slave(s) is for redundancy of the DNS information and the slave(s) > automatically synchronize with the master, on which the DNS information > is administered. You can too run a master / master setup, but have then > to manually care for current DNS information on both servers as no > mechanism will do so. ... > Making changes in the bind zone is not that difficult and I don't really > see the need for a GUI. Though there is software: Fedora ships > system-config-bind. Other software under GPL can be found on > > http://www.phpcult.com/binder.php > http://freshmeat.net/redir/mfedit/37618/url_homepage/mfedit.php > > Alexander Thanks for the info. How about if we choose to install a W2k server, is the current bind capable of working with the Directory Server? Is there a way to get DHCP to feed it's assignments to the DNS server? Roy
