> 1. What does the default EC2 nameserver provide, since it alone cannot
> resolve the scalr-generated internal names for our domain?   Is this a
> nameserver we can configure?
Its a regular caching nameserver I guess.
Resolv request being forwarded to autoritative nameservers that you have set
in SOA record / your registrar (that appear in whois).


> 2. Why aren't the scalr nameserver's included in /etc/resolv.conf by
> default instead of the EC2 nameserver?

Its a security risk. Someone can create say, ubuntu.org and host a fake .deb
packages repository.

> 
> We are also working on configuring our external nameserver to set up
> the DNS Zone transfer to the scalr nameservers to see if that allows
> us to resolve the internal names without changing /etc/resolv.conf.
> We still want to maintain backup DNS outside of the cloud.

It should be easier to make a script that would re-generate /etc/hosts file
from /etc/aws/hosts
Let's see if we can come up with something like this.

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Michael
> 
> On Dec 18, 10:43 am, Alex Kovalyov <[email protected]> wrote:
> Because /etc/resolv.conf - a file that defines nameservers,
>> contains EC2 namesrver, that is, for sure respectsDNShierarchy.
>> This parent is your domain that you point to Scalr nameservers.
> 
> > 



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