<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 23, 2017, at 2:06 PM, Fungal Style <<a href="mailto:wayin@hotmail.com" class="">wayin@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Add to that I could technically set up the third IP (10.2.1.1) as a DNS server, say ns3 and add secondary entries for<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://xyz.com/" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">xyz.com</a><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); float: none; display: inline !important;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://abc.com/" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">abc.com</a><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); float: none; display: inline !important;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and set up any other additional domains set up as virtual sites on 10.2.1.1 (aka ns3), keeping ns1 for the primary setting up the virtual sites pointing to 10.2.1.1 (or 192.168.1.2, whichever I want to set the virtual site on) etc, etc… same process as before… unless there is an easier way so that I do not have to add secondary entries for all the domains on each of the secondary name servers (like a zone transfer or something allowing them to be copied, unless I misunderstand)? (this is one area I think I am making it hard for myself).</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">The DNS protocol has this all built-in. On the secondary DNS server, you specify the IP address of the primary, and it will attempt to transfer the zone file automatically. You do have to enter the IP address of secondary servers into the allow list of the primary for this to work.</div></body></html>