RE: Need help on delegation to subdomain/external servers

2009-09-17 Thread RUOFF LARS
Hello, Thanks for your detailed answer. I think I don't have enough DNS knowledge to understand every bit of it, but I'll try to clarify. [mailto:bind-users-boun...@lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Darcy: RUOFF LARS wrote: Hi, i'm using BIND9 on an Ubuntu-8.10-server. I'd like to

Re: Need help on delegation to subdomain/external servers

2009-09-17 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 17.09.09 11:16, RUOFF LARS wrote: The reason for this is: I have a hot-swap redundant system where 1 out of 2 servers is active at any given time and the other is standby. DNS is (mis?-)used to tell the clients which one is active at a given moment. The idea is that clients resolve a name

Class B Rev Zone?

2009-09-17 Thread stefan novak
Hello, is it possible to make a Class B net with one zone file? I've configured it like this. // reverse domains for cable modems zone 64.10.in-addr.arpa { type master; file 10.64.rev; }; ; Reverse Domain 10.64 @IN SOA ns01..at. hostmaster..at. (

Re: Class B Rev Zone?

2009-09-17 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 17.09.09 14:20, stefan novak wrote: is it possible to make a Class B net with one zone file? I've configured it like this. [...] zone 64.10.in-addr.arpa { [...] 1.1 IN PTR dialin00bru1..at. 1.2 IN PTR dialin00bru2..at. 2.1 IN PTR dialin00bru3..at. yes,

Re: Class B Rev Zone?

2009-09-17 Thread stefan novak
yes, it's possible. However that would be a HUGE zone and if you made any mistake, the whole zone would not be accepted and updated. Those are reasons you better should split it into /24 alias C-class zones. ok. the zones are generated from a script so it should be OK. rndc reload

Re: Class B Rev Zone?

2009-09-17 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
yes, it's possible. However that would be a HUGE zone and if you made any mistake, the whole zone would not be accepted and updated. Those are reasons you better should split it into /24 alias C-class zones. ok. the zones are generated from a script so it should be OK. rndc reload

Re: Need help on delegation to subdomain/external servers

2009-09-17 Thread Kevin Darcy
RUOFF LARS wrote: Hello, Thanks for your detailed answer. I think I don't have enough DNS knowledge to understand every bit of it, but I'll try to clarify. [mailto:bind-users-boun...@lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Darcy: RUOFF LARS wrote: Hi, i'm using BIND9 on an

RE: Need help on delegation to subdomain/external servers

2009-09-17 Thread RUOFF LARS
[mailto:bind-users-boun...@lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Darcy [...] I have a hot-swap redundant system where 1 out of 2 servers is active at any given time and the other is standby. DNS is (mis?-)used to tell the clients which one is active at a given moment. The idea is

Re: Class B Rev Zone?

2009-09-17 Thread stefan novak
did file timestamp change after the change? yes they where also changed. I figured out my problem. i had another config line in my zone config that was wrong. my college was something testing too... :) allow-update { key DHCP_UPDATER; }; thx for your help. kind regards, Stefan

Re: Need help on delegation to subdomain/external servers

2009-09-17 Thread Kevin Darcy
RUOFF LARS wrote: [mailto:bind-users-boun...@lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Darcy BTW, at the moment I am experimenting a solution usign a forward zone: zone dummy.ts IN { type forward; forward only; forwarders { 172.25.32.171; 192.168.2.3; }; }; It seems

Re: Need help on delegation to subdomain/external servers

2009-09-17 Thread Ben Croswell
I have done some testing of the RTT forwarding and found that as long as only one, or the other of the two nameservers that you forward to is active at any given time the switch over is actually very quick. The exception being the first query when the currently active forwarder dies and the second