> I have to agree with that. One of the problems though is finding the time
to
> write all the little scripts, then eventually tie them all together into
> usefull management tools. but like all other sysadmins, I'm getting to
it...
> Meantime, having access to the secondary named.conf, I simply use ftp to
> append the new entry to the secondary conf file, and use cron to reload
> named on the secondary once a day. One day ----- I'l write the bit that
says
> "only reload if named.conf has changed".... maybe tomorrow.
Maybe it's just me, but I'd go every hour, or three hours... Only if
named.conf has changed, of course.
> > I believe that tools to facilitate exchange of secondary DNS should not
> > cost anything.
>
> I also believe that exchanging secondaries should not cost anything. The
old
> "You show me yours and I'll show you mine" thing works fine.
Agreed.
> I see. If it's set up as a service, that is, where one of the parties
can't
> act as a secondary in exchange, then a small fee may be appropriate. Like
a
> few dollars a year to cover bandwidth. But setting up a server as a
> Secondary _only_ is a waste of resources I think. even though I have one
> here doing just that...but it's and old box and needs replacing soon
anyway.
Very much agreed, unless you have a significant enough load. At the ISP I
work for, we have three dedicated nameservers, and it works quite well. We
just added the third to reduce overall load. But then, we have dialup pools
as well as hundreds of thousands of hosted domains.
> but then. If I'm being charged a dollar a year to have a domain on my
> service secondaried somewhere else, then that's a cost I can't pass on to
my
> customer - so it becomes another cost to me.
Which is why "exchanging" is, IMO, the only way to go
> Just as a matter of interest - what IS the load on a machine running X
> number of secondary zones in it's named.conf? has any one done any stats?
One thing to remember, there is no "primary" and "secondary" in terms of
usage, you effectively round robin. Primary/Secondary only applies to the
.conf files and behaviour of the servers themselves.
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