Creating master and slaves DNS with puppet module camptocamp bind - linux

Question

Trying to create a master and slave (redundancy) DNS with puppet module camptocamp bind. In slave profile, I've set transfer_source => '192.168.1.20' to masters ip: 192.168.1.20. It should then synchronize and copy dns records from master to the slave.
But I got complaints about that it could only be set to slave zones. I've followed the README from puppet forge for the module: https://forge.puppet.com/camptocamp/bind/readme
dnsmaster.pp
class profile::dnsbind::server {
include 'bind'
bind::zone {'example.com':
ensure => 'present',
zone_contact => 'contact.example.com',
zone_ns => ['ns0.example.com'],
zone_serial => '2012112901',
zone_ttl => '604800',
zone_origin => 'example.com',
}
bind::a { 'example.com':
ensure => 'present',
zone => 'example.com',
ptr => false,
hash_data => {
'host1' => { owner => '192.168.0.1', },
'host2' => { owner => '192.168.0.2', },
},
}
}
dnsslave.pp
class profile::dnsbind::server_slave {
include 'bind'
bind::zone {'example.com':
ensure => 'present',
zone_contact => 'contact.example.com',
zone_ns => ['ns0.example.com'],
zone_serial => '2012112901',
zone_ttl => '604800',
zone_origin => 'example.com',
transfer_source => '192.168.1.20',
}
}
The error message:
Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 500 on SERVER: Server Error: Evaluation Error: Error while evaluating a Resource Statement, Evaluation Error: Error while evaluating a Function Call, Zone 'example.com': transfer_source can be set only for slave zones! at /etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/production/modules/bind/manifests/zone.pp:80:5 at /etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/production/manifests/profile_dns2.pp:5 on node centos7-3
Warning: Not using cache on failed catalog
Error: Could not retrieve catalog; skipping run

Answer 1

It should then synchronize and copy dns records from master to the
slave.
But I got complaints about that it could only be set to slave zones.
Evidently, the module does not recognize that you're trying to configure a slave zone. How do you suppose it would know? Well, apparently not from the presence of a transfer_source property.
I've followed the README from puppet forge for the module:
https://forge.puppet.com/camptocamp/bind/readme
I'll believe that you started by pulling the example zone definition (for a master zone) from the readme, and I grant you that this module's docs are kinda shoddy. But do nevertheless consider actually reading the docs thoroughly, not just skimming them. If you had done, you would have found documentation for the zone_type parameter immediately following the the documentation for the transfer_source parameter:
$zone_type = master
Specify if the zone is master/slave/forward.
Use this to specify that you're configuring a slave zone.