Re: Anycast DNS - LB/LTM

2012-03-10 Thread David Klein
the advertising? -- *From:* David Klein r...@nachtmaus.us *To:* ju wusuo juwu...@yahoo.com *Cc:* bind-users@lists.isc.org bind-users@lists.isc.org *Sent:* Wednesday, March 7, 2012 11:18 PM *Subject:* Re: Anycast DNS You would need to create a custom script to use as your

Re: Anycast DNS

2012-03-07 Thread David Klein
You would need to create a custom script to use as your monitor, which does a lookup of an address that you know will always be in your domain. If that fails, force-down/inactive the node, and tie this script as a monitor to the pool holding the DNS server nodes. You can advertise the /32

Re: load balance of DNS

2012-01-13 Thread David Klein
With stock DNS, no; all you can do is recommend by ordering the responses. But there are solutions. There are load-balancing DNS servers (they have a pool of responses, and hand out an answer of that pool, based on rules, and can even remove an answer from the pool if a watchdog/monitor fails). F5

Re: Zone name conflicts / overlapping

2011-09-19 Thread david klein
I don't know from Power DNS, but BIND expects to have one master where all changes are initiated, and all other servers receive replication from the single master, via incremental zone transfers. This is how conflicts and race conditions are prevented. You would do better to designate one of the

Re: DNS update on host down

2011-07-28 Thread david klein
There are tools which do this, such as F5's GTM or Cisco's GSS; essentially, you have multiple servers in a pool/answer group, and during normal operations, they are handed out in either RR or WRR. If one server fails his health-check, he is taken out of the mix. I believe under the covers, it is

Re: GUI for bind

2011-03-30 Thread david klein
It's a little less novice-friendly than Men Mice, but it has price going for it. Take a look at GADMIN Tools for BIND (http://gadmintools.flippedweb.com/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=14Itemid=33). Even better, take a look at Infoblox NIOS-based IPAM appliance; you could easily set one

Re: Optimising rndc reload times on a slave server with 50,000 zones

2011-03-02 Thread david klein
:34 AM, david klein r...@nachtmaus.us wrote: 5 files in a single directory will make difficult for any filesystem. I would recommend breaking that out into groups of less than 1 per directory. For better performance, separate them onto directories that are on different spindles

Re: Optimising rndc reload times on a slave server with 50,000 zones

2011-02-28 Thread david klein
5 files in a single directory will make difficult for any filesystem. I would recommend breaking that out into groups of less than 1 per directory. For better performance, separate them onto directories that are on different spindles; the parallelization of seek (and with thousands of

Re: Bind Clustering

2010-07-29 Thread david klein
One solution that was floated recently around here was to use dynamically loaded zones (http://bind-dlz.sourceforge.net/) with an underlying storage mechanism that does bidirectional replication (a directory service like LDAP or a database) for the masters, this way, whichever one gets the update,