if you use Bind it's no problem. The distro doesn't matter... there's a howto here on how to setup a master/slave system with zone forwarding.
In my case I have a debian server and my buddy a suse one... and afnic.fr did want to different IPs so I setup my friend's bind as slave for the .fr domain in question.
I think this should help:
http://www.howtoforge.com/debian_bin...r_slave_system