In message <4d6d7268.1080...@chrysler.com>, Kevin Darcy writes: > I got a trouble ticket on this too. > > From the looks of things, Cisco is using GSSes to load-balance this > site. GSSes return SERVFAIL if all of the resources behind the > load-balancer are down (which it determines via a heartbeat mechanism). > So I think this is a "simple" case of a website (or cluster) going down. > It was down earlier today, then up again, as of this writing, it is down > again. > > DNS doesn't really have a response code of "requested resource not > available", so SERVFAIL is Cisco's closest approximation. It has the > drawback, however, of often making other sorts of problems appear to be > DNS problems. That's just a cross that we DNS admins have to bear... > > - Kevin
Then the load balancer should return default records or 0.0.0.0/:: to indicate the name is good but doesn't currently have a address. Mark -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: ma...@isc.org _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
