On 28/09/10 2:08, Chris Buxton wrote:
> On Sep 27, 2010, at 4:43 PM, Sten Carlsen wrote:
>
>> Well, it depends on your clients. If they don't like .0 or .255, you
>> would have to have a rather large amount of ranges.
>>
>> E.g. range 10.1.1.1 10.1.1.254; range 10.1.2.1 10.1.2.254; ......
>>
>> If OTOH you don't have any of those clients, other factors like
>> hashing algorithms and sizes come into play. This was recently
>> discussed on the list, so there should be information about the
>> optimal way to slice the address range from that point of view in the
>> archives.
>
> I think you're still thinking of this as a DHCP issue. DHCP was not
> mentioned by the OP, and this is not the DHCP Users list. We're not
> talking about an actual network of 10/8, we're talking about a DNS
> zone of 10.in-addr.arpa. There are no hashing algorithm or size issues
> at play, because we're not talking about DHCP.
Sorry, reading too fast. My fault.
>
> From a pure BIND/DNS perspective, there's nothing wrong with a
> 10.in-addr.arpa zone, either as a container of PTR records, a starting
> point for resolution (meaning it contains lots of delegations), or a
> mix of both.
>
> Regards,
> Chris Buxton
> BlueCat Networks
>
>> On 28/09/10 1:08, Warren Kumari wrote:
>>> On Sep 27, 2010, at 6:55 PM, Sten Carlsen wrote:
>>>
>>>> While a single zone is perfectly fine from a standards point of view,
>>>> "some" clients might be served addresses they don't like 10.x.x.0 and
>>>> 10.x.x.255.
>>>>
>>> But that would be DHCP config, no?
>>>
>>>
>>>> Just a reminder that this could be a reason if something appears weird.
>>> Fair 'nuff,
>>>
>>> W
>>>> On 27/09/10 23:07, Chris Buxton wrote:
>>>>> On Sep 27, 2010, at 1:03 PM, Christopher Cain wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi all.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am setting up a new appliance-based DNS solution that will contain a
>>>>>> fair number of separately managed Windows DNS slave servers (in addition
>>>>>> to the DNS appliances that will handle the .
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Currently there are just over 8000 host records that resolve to IP's in
>>>>>> the 10.x.x.x space. I am wrestling with whether or not I should create
>>>>>> a single 10.in-addr.arpa zone or if I should create 256 /16 zones (i.e.
>>>>>> - 0.10.in-addr.arpa to 255.10.in-addr.arpa).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The reason I want to encompass the entire 10 space is so new arpa zones
>>>>>> will not have to be defined on all servers (specifically on the Windows
>>>>>> slaves) if a new part of the 10 space is used at some point.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any recommendations or comments would be greatly appreciated.
>>>>>>
>>>>> There's nothing wrong with a single 10.in-addr.arpa zone. If you need to
>>>>> break it up amongst different master servers, a 10.in-addr.arpa zone can
>>>>> still be used to delegate child zones to their respective servers.
>>>>>
>>>>> You might break it up if, for example, the DDNS traffic from DHCP clients
>>>>> across the enterprise would be too much for one master server to
>>>>> accommodate. The BIND name server writes to its journal file
>>>>> synchronously, for every update, and this can be quite a bottleneck. (The
>>>>> same is true for slave servers, which keep a journal file for zone
>>>>> transfers in order to service IXFR requests sent to them.)
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Chris Buxton
>>>>> BlueCat Networks
>>>>>
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>>>>
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