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I am unsure if my question makes sense, but I am working on configuring a DNS Master/Slave setup. We currently have two domains. For privacy purposes, I will use "example" as my domain, we have example.net and ec2.example.net. Our Master DNS server is currently on example.net and we want our slave on ec2.example.net.

How do I specify the slave naming server in the appropriate zone file on the Master naming server? I attempted using its FQDN of dns02.ec2.example.net and when I restart DNS and related processes, it fails because it can't locate dns02.ec2.example.net. What is needed?

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This won't work, because zone transfers are handled on a zone-to-zone basis. You can't transfer a full zone to a partial zone.

That said, it's possible to define a more specific zone on your master server called ec2.example.net.. Doing this will hide ec2 and all records beneath it in your example.net. zone, so you will need to ensure that all of those records are copied over into the new zone. It would then be possible to transfer this zone to other servers without including your example.net. data.

DANGER: If you want to host these on completely different servers, this will require glue records in the example.net. zone for the dns01.ec2 and dns02.ec2:

dns01.ec2 IN A 203.0.113.1
dns02.ec2 IN A 203.0.113.2
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