I used to use a cobalt for secondary DNS and to host sub -domains.

I'm chucking cobalt out the door.

...and having a freebsd box setup with Plesk installed.

This box will only be used for secondary DNS and like I said, sub-domains. No primary domain hosting.

How would you go about this? I have a solution but just want to know if anybody else has managed to do what I want to and how they went about it.

Thanks.

Anybody there?

I don't see what is so hard about doing that. Just configure BIND as a secondary nameserver and set subdomains to resolve to that server.

Or is it that you want people to be able to create subdomains on that server from another? That would probably require some script modifications or something.


Andrew

Ok, I'll type to myself:

1. Setup the domain through the control panel.
2. Turn DNS for the domain off.
3. Add nameserver - that would be the primary nameserver

or

1. as above
2. Go to the domains DNS and change all the ip#'s to that of the primary box.

What do you think?

Personally, I'd throw Plesk and BIND out the window and start using DJBDNS (on both servers). Then setup a cron job which either SCPs the dns data.cdb file across every five minutes, or (if you're feeling adventurous) run rdist over an SSH tunnel.

Either way, if the secondary nameserver only needs to serve the exact same DNS entries as the primary, djbdns is a much easier solution than BIND.