dns slave auto configuration

<pre>What benefit does that provide?</pre> <br> <br>Here’s a decent article on the topic: <a href=“http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/considering-dns-server-design.html”>Considering DNS Server Design</a>

<pre>…but then why would I want to do it? Why do I want to copy DNS records from the master server onto the slave server?</pre> <br> <br>Because even the mighty GoDaddy* (*substitute whatever DNS provider you’re using, here) has outages from time-to-time.

You should have at least one slave DNS server for redundancy so it can be used instead of the other one if it’s down. <br> <br>Setting it up as a slave server takes care of copying the DNS records so you don’t have to set up a completely separate ns2 DNS server and add each DNS record twice, once on each server.

Thanks Pablo but then why would I want to do it? Why do I want to copy DNS records from the master server onto the slave server? What benefit does that provide?

@m73mitchell, <br> <br>Take a 2nd look at the title of the article you cited: “How to Setup <strong>DNS Slave</strong>…” The configuration outlined in that article only copies DNS records from the master server onto the slave server(s). <br> <br>Thus, it will not “keep a copy of the master if (sic) the database on each server.”

But how does the slave keep a copy of the master if the database on each server isn’t linked?

“1) is the master/slave set up described in the article going to make a duplicate copy of all the data, or does it have nothing to do with copying the database?” <br> <br>The slaves are copies of the master. Every change in the master is reflected in the slaves. <br> <br>> “2) will it result in higher performance somehow?” <br> <br>By distributing requests across two+ droplets, you’re decreasing the load on each droplet and also allowing more connections to your dns servers due to the larger amount of available resources. <br> <br>I recommend setting up at least two DNS servers in two different regions so if there’s an issue with one server, the second server would be unaffected and available.