Stub zone vs forward zone

2011-03-14 Thread Marc Haber
Hi, I am running a local instance of bind on my notebook to spare myself some rather annoying reconfiguration orgies that are bound to happen when changing networks. On my biggest customer's network, I am trying to be able to access their reverse DNS, which is (don't ask) not loaded on the

Re: Stub zone vs forward zone

2011-03-14 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
Marc, A stub zone tells BIND to load SOA and NS records from its masters {}. (forwarders {} is, I belive, both useless and incorrect here.) From that point onwards, your BIND will use the data in the stub to recursively find answers to queries for that zone. The forwarder on the other hand,

Re: Stub zone vs forward zone

2011-03-14 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 20110314104330.ga29...@torres.zugschlus.de, Marc Haber writes: Hi, I am running a local instance of bind on my notebook to spare myself some rather annoying reconfiguration orgies that are bound to happen when changing networks. On my biggest customer's network, I am trying to

Re: Stub zone vs forward zone

2011-03-14 Thread Tony Finch
On Mon, 14 Mar 2011, Jan-Piet Mens wrote: A stub zone tells BIND to load SOA and NS records from its masters {}. (forwarders {} is, I belive, both useless and incorrect here.) From that point onwards, your BIND will use the data in the stub to recursively find answers to queries for that

understanding slave debug

2011-03-14 Thread jeffrey j donovan
Greetings I have an older slave server, I was checking the logs an when I put into debug mode it reports over and over again 14-Mar-2011 22:41:39.913 refresh_callback: zone 13.150.10.in-addr.arpa/IN/com.basd.DNS.private: enter 14-Mar-2011 22:41:39.913 refresh_callback: zone

A very Odd SOA Problem

2011-03-14 Thread Martin McCormick
We just moved one of our remote campuses to new IPv4 number space and I was having tremendous problems all day using nsupdate. I thought it was because the change of DNS address had not gone through yet, but it had and a whois lookup shows the correct DNS addresses. When I finally

Re: A very Odd SOA Problem

2011-03-14 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 201103150326.p2f3qdfo049...@x.it.okstate.edu, Martin McCormick wri tes: We just moved one of our remote campuses to new IPv4 number space and I was having tremendous problems all day using nsupdate. I thought it was because the change of DNS address had not gone through yet,