Failover

2009-04-27 Thread Mohammed Ejaz
Hi all, Can it be possible through the bind, www records should work as failover, I mean during the primary record unavailable and then it should go for next www only, Pls. note that I don't want let they work as round robin function. 1. Primary www record pointing 1.2.3.4 as long as it

Re: Failover

2009-04-27 Thread Scott Haneda
I belive this is the job of a load balancer and not something that can be done in dns. DNS has no way of following the resulting answer ip or host, let alone knowing what protocol to follow on and how to determine what ones definition of up is. This type if check could be done in a basic

RE: Failover

2009-04-27 Thread Mohammed Ejaz
First of all many thanks for your response, Actually we are in ISP; this solution is for one of our customer in this case we need to give the access of the server to the customer, Ejaz _ From: philippe.simo...@swisscom.com [mailto:philippe.simo...@swisscom.com] Sent: Monday,

Re: Failover

2009-04-27 Thread Sam Wilson
In article gt3l6f$17m...@sf1.isc.org, philippe.simo...@swisscom.com wrote: This is not the DNS job to check at the web service availability. You could make an external script that is testing for the service availibil= ity and change the dns accordingly, like (...) : web1 active ?

Re: Failover

2009-04-27 Thread Dmitry Rybin
The Best - use carp (VRRP) protocol for it or nginx proxy server. Or you can use dynamic update for zone: ping -c 5 your.host || nsupdate ... Mohammed Ejaz wrote: Hi all, Can it be possible through the bind, www records should work as failover, I mean during the primary record

Re: bind 9.4 acache crashes

2009-04-27 Thread Sotiris Tsimbonis
Sotiris Tsimbonis wrote, On 09/04/2009 10:26 AM: On 9/4/2009 10:10 πμ, Sotiris Tsimbonis wrote: On 7/4/2009 12:09 μμ, Sotiris Tsimbonis wrote: On 6/4/2009 9:23 μμ, JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 wrote: At Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:38:01 +0300, Sotiris Tsimbonis tsimbo...@forthnet.gr wrote: Anyone else seen

Signing algorithms for rndc

2009-04-27 Thread Chris Thompson
It seems that even in the most recent versions of BIND, rndc supports only the hmac-md5 algorithm. Given that MD5 is being deprecated all over the place (I am thinking of draft-ietf-dnsext-tsig-md5-deprecated-02 in particular), is this wise? -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk

How to forward domain totally not using CNAME?

2009-04-27 Thread MontyRee
Hello, all. I would like to CNAME like below. example.com. IN CNAMEexample2.com. But I know that this is wrong. then, is there any way or solution to solve this problem? I searched and found that below is a similar solution. * IN CNAME

about DNAME question

2009-04-27 Thread MontyRee
Hello, all. Thanks for kind answering for DNAME. I have additional questions for DNAME. If I set like below, example.com. IN DNAMEexample2.com IP addreess of example.com is 192.168.1.2 1. if client resolver use bind 8 or below old version. What would be

approach on parsing the query-log file

2009-04-27 Thread Jonathan Petersson
Hi all, I'm thinking of writing a quick tool to archive the query-log in a database to allow for easier reports. The obvious question that occurs is; What would be what's the best approach to do this? Running scripts that parses through the query-log would cause locking essentially killing BIND