Worked nicely, thankyou :) On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 09:31:47AM -0400, Bulent Murtezaoglu wrote: > > I don't understand why you need this to happen every 5 minutes. > If it is delegations are from the root servers, they are only updated > twice daily. Sure you can update the zone files right after the > registration, but nobody except people who use your name servers for > recursive lookups will get that info. > > If the problem is more one of pleasing the customer than doing the > technically sufficient thing, I suggest the following: > > Separate the authoritative servers (A) from the ones the customers use > for recursive lookups (R). > > Add the _new registrations_ to the R servers and update R's every five > minutes. The customers who use the R servers will get the 'right' > answers and be happy. > > Twice a day, yank that day's batch of new zones from the R servers and > move them to A servers. > > This way R servers get updated often but with 100-500 zone files, the > A servers get updated just in time. > > If the customers grab the DNS IP's via PPP, you can change the numbers > very easily. > > Would this work, or am I misunderstaning the problem? > > cheers, > > BM > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
