Virtualmin DNS slave configuration not working/mail forward not available.

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Hey guys, I have virtualmin 3.76 on two seprate VPS’s. One is being used as Web/DNS/Mail server and the other I want to get working as a hold and forward mail server and backup DNS server.

According to this… http://www.virtualmin.com/documentation/dns/slave-configuration I have configured it exactly as described and selected that it will need to create existing zones on the new DNS server. It did create them and set it up under /etc/named.conf but all of the actual zone files were blank and renamed with random numbers/letters.

I had to manually transfer the zones inside of /var/named/slaves/ and now when I create new ones it still doesn’t transfer to the second DNS server. I am not sure what setting is not working.

To sum it up, it will transfer and change the file /etc/named.conf but not transfer any zones into /var/named/slaves/, I have to manually move them over.

One more thing, on this http://www.virtualmin.com/documentation/email/hold-and-forward it says to " Now open the ‘‘Addresses and Networking’’ menu item, and click on ‘‘Secondary Mail Servers’’." I am not seeing anything like that under Addresses and Networking, only the options below
Change IP Addresses
Shared IP Addresses
Dynamic IP Update

Is this only available in the paid version?

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Is this only available in the paid version?

Hrm, that may be the case… looking in version 3.76 of Virtualmin Pro, I do see Addresses and Networking -> Secondary Mail Servers.

-Eric

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as for bind, it came to my attention that master zones are written as root and slave zones on the slave server as named. so it creates a file permission conflict. This needs to be corrected. Try adding named to the root group and set permissions for group writable or make the folder 777

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So dns backup server is broken and the article about hold and forward mail servers is tagged incorrectly with Virtualmin GPL?

Sounds good to me, looks like I have to configure postfix manually for hold/forward mail server and wait for the 3.77/3.8 release of virtualmin.

Anyone know of any good online tutorials? Not really a hold my hand type of tutorial for the mail server but just something that generally explains it and a quick overview of how to handle postfix configuration?