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.. and it came to pass that Ian Northeast 
<ian@house-from-hell.demon.co.uk> uttered forth:
>'Dungeon' Dave wrote:
>
>> I've got two DNS servers - but I've also written a script so that the
>> hosts file of one machine is automatically updated from the other. I
>> extended this to the DNS database files to ensure that both were
>> synched.
>
>Unless you are running a "stealth" master - i.e. one whose job is to
>take over if the main one fails, this isn't IMO the way to do it.

It was intended to be built this way.

> You
>should have one master and any number of slaves (a slave can be a
>slave
>to another slave BTW). The slaves will survive the absence of the master
>as long as the expiration period on the domain - typically a few days at
>least.

.. but will not automatically update the db files from the master, only 
the cache.
>
>Ian

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