Managing Mission - Critical Domains and DNS

Slaving PowerDNS from BIND masters

Most of the PowerDNS backends can act as a secondary to a BIND master out of the box.

Using gmysql, you simply need to add the domain as a "SLAVE" type to the domains table with the IP address of the master nameserver:

+--------+-------+--------------+------------+-------+-----------------

| id | name | master | last_check | type | notified_serial | account |

+--------+-------+--------------+------------+-------+-----------------

| 141397 | x9.to | 64.68.198.91 | 1446574889 | SLAVE | NULL | NULL |

+--------+-------+--------------+------------+-------+-----------------

1 row in set (0.00 sec)

PowerDNS will respond to incoming NOTIFY packets like any other bind secondary nameserver.

Recall that if the master ...