Re: Help with unresolvable domain (subdomain, actually)

2011-03-04 Thread John Wobus
Then the load balancer should return default records or 0.0.0.0/:: to indicate the name is good but doesn't currently have a address. I like that solution, actually. Even if the client doesn't recognize it as a special address, hopefully if it tries to connect to it, the packet won't make it

Re: Help with unresolvable domain (subdomain, actually)

2011-03-02 Thread David Sparro
On 3/1/2011 5:27 PM, Kevin Darcy wrote: See my other post. This is designed-in behavior for Cisco GSSes, since there is no service unavailable, try again later RCODE. - Kevin When the question is what is the ip address of 'foo' an answer of the web server is down in nonsensical. -- Dave

Re: Help with unresolvable domain (subdomain, actually)

2011-03-02 Thread Warren Kumari
On Mar 1, 2011, at 5:27 PM, Kevin Darcy wrote: See my other post. This is designed-in behavior for Cisco GSSes, since there is no service unavailable, try again later RCODE. Yes[0]. W [0]: there is no service unavailable, try again later RCODE.

Re: Help with unresolvable domain (subdomain, actually)

2011-03-02 Thread Kevin Darcy
On 3/2/2011 10:34 AM, David Sparro wrote: On 3/1/2011 5:27 PM, Kevin Darcy wrote: See my other post. This is designed-in behavior for Cisco GSSes, since there is no service unavailable, try again later RCODE. When the question is what is the ip address of 'foo' an answer of the web server

RE: Help with unresolvable domain (subdomain, actually)

2011-03-02 Thread Mike Bernhardt
with unresolvable domain (subdomain, actually) In message 4d6d7268.1080...@chrysler.com, Kevin Darcy writes: I got a trouble ticket on this too. From the looks of things, Cisco is using GSSes to load-balance this site. GSSes return SERVFAIL if all of the resources behind the load

Re: Help with unresolvable domain (subdomain, actually)

2011-03-02 Thread David Sparro
On 3/2/2011 1:20 PM, Kevin Darcy wrote: I'm not saying I agree with this perspective, only that I've dealt with load-balancer vendors enough (Cisco in particular) to understand that this is where they're coming from. Besides, what alternative is there? If the load-balancer returns an address

Re: Help with unresolvable domain (subdomain, actually)

2011-03-02 Thread Warren Kumari
On Mar 2, 2011, at 1:20 PM, Kevin Darcy wrote: On 3/2/2011 10:34 AM, David Sparro wrote: On 3/1/2011 5:27 PM, Kevin Darcy wrote: See my other post. This is designed-in behavior for Cisco GSSes, since there is no service unavailable, try again later RCODE. When the question is what is

Re: Help with unresolvable domain (subdomain, actually)

2011-03-02 Thread Kevin Darcy
On 3/1/2011 6:30 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: In message4d6d7268.1080...@chrysler.com, Kevin Darcy writes: I got a trouble ticket on this too. From the looks of things, Cisco is using GSSes to load-balance this site. GSSes return SERVFAIL if all of the resources behind the load-balancer are down

RE: Help with unresolvable domain (subdomain, actually)

2011-03-02 Thread Mike Bernhardt
A few options: 1: once the LB knows that all back-ends are down, it can continue to answer with the correct A, but drop the TTL to be much shorter -- this allows things to recover faster. This would work well because the actually web site wasn't down, at least not yesterday. If I substituted the

Re: Help with unresolvable domain (subdomain, actually)

2011-03-02 Thread Warren Kumari
01, 2011 3:31 PM To: Kevin Darcy Cc: bind-us...@isc.org Subject: Re: Help with unresolvable domain (subdomain, actually) In message 4d6d7268.1080...@chrysler.com, Kevin Darcy writes: I got a trouble ticket on this too. From the looks of things, Cisco is using GSSes to load-balance this site

Re: Help with unresolvable domain (subdomain, actually)

2011-03-01 Thread Kevin Darcy
- From: Mike Bernhardt [mailto:bernha...@bart.gov] Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 12:40 PM To: bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: Help with unresolvable domain (subdomain, actually) For some reason, we can no longer resolve tools.cisco.com. there are several clues to the problem but I can't put them

Re: Help with unresolvable domain (subdomain, actually)

2011-03-01 Thread Kevin Darcy
See my other post. This is designed-in behavior for Cisco GSSes, since there is no service unavailable, try again later RCODE.

Re: Help with unresolvable domain (subdomain, actually)

2011-03-01 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 4d6d7268.1080...@chrysler.com, Kevin Darcy writes: I got a trouble ticket on this too. From the looks of things, Cisco is using GSSes to load-balance this site. GSSes return SERVFAIL if all of the resources behind the load-balancer are down (which it determines via a heartbeat