By m73mitchell
There’s a DO tutorial about setting up ‘dns slave auto configuration’ however it doesn’t explain why i would want to do it, and what it actually accomplishes. Can you explain. For example,
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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?
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will it result in higher performance somehow?
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But how does the slave keep a copy of the master if the database on each server isn’t linked?
@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.”
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?
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