On Fri, 31 Jan 2025 15:41:29 -0500
"Brian J. Murrell via FreeIPA-users"
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Is there any supported configuration that instructs a slave replica to
> first forward DNS queries to the master replica's DNS server and only
> if it is down, to try to resolve recursively on it's own?
> 
> The goal here is to leverage the cache of the master replica to reduce
> outbound queries from the slave replica.
> 
> Ultimately, I want the slave replica to be as quiet/unloaded as
> possible and only really be used in the case of the master replica
> being down, if that helps the context any.
> 
> This is for a small slave host in a very small network -- one where
> even a single replica is more than enough to satisfy the clients, but
> just looking to add redundancy and major version O/S upgrade paths
> (since FreeIPA cannot do in-place upgrades on EL and must use a replica
> to replicate from one the O/S major version upgrade is done -- assuming
> that is still the state of FreeIPA's in-place upgrade limitations -- on
> EL8 at least).
> 
> Cheers,
> b.
> 

If you set them as primary and secondary DNS servers, all requests will
still go to the primary, only if it's unreachable will the clients fail
over to the secondary. 

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