Re: [9fans] ndb/dns as a slave

["Devon H. O'Dell" <devon.odell@gmail.com>]

2009/8/22 erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>:
> On Sat Aug 22 09:35:03 EDT 2009, devon.odell@gmail.com wrote:
>> 2009/8/22 Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net>:
>> > I assume your master DNS is served from bind, then you
>> > can use the zonefresh program in my contrib to build an
>> > ndb compatible ndb file for your local dns to serve.
>>
>> Actually, I'm using ndb/dns for both. I seem to recall reading that
>> ndb supports zone transfers by looking for large packets in udp53 (or
>> something). I suppose if this isn't possible, periodically pulling
>> /lib/ndb/local from the other machine and sending refresh to /net/dns
>> could work. (Just kind of wondering what the standard procedure is :))
>
> in that case, why wouldn't you use plan 9 methods, rather
> than rely on goofy dns stuff?

Because I rarely actually use Plan 9 and I'm not sure what the
proposed methodology for doing this is.

> - erik
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