Re: How to allow set Host file dns query priorities in BIND

2011-02-25 Thread John Wobus
On Feb 23, 2011, at 12:19 PM, Kevin Darcy wrote: Unless one intimately knows the failure behavior of *every*single*app*and*subsystem* in one's environment (which in a large/complex environment is a constantly moving target, since new apps and subsystems are being implemented all the time), on

Re: How to allow set Host file dns query priorities in BIND

2011-02-23 Thread David Sparro
On 2/23/2011 12:19 PM, Kevin Darcy wrote: On 2/23/2011 4:57 AM, Eivind Olsen wrote: reason. And if your Internet connection goes down, does it really matter whether you can do lookups, if you can't make the connections anyway? I hear that reasoning a lot, but it's actually a fallacy. Some appli

Re: How to allow set Host file dns query priorities in BIND

2011-02-23 Thread Eivind Olsen
Den 23. feb. 2011 kl. 18:19 skrev Kevin Darcy : > One should also bear in mind that DNS isn't only used for obtaining address > records for purposes of immediate client/server connection. ...etc... Fair enough. I didn't see any mention of that in the original posting, and I don't think the host

Re: How to allow set Host file dns query priorities in BIND

2011-02-23 Thread Kevin Darcy
On 2/23/2011 4:57 AM, Eivind Olsen wrote: is there any option in BIND to give priority to HOST file before connecting it to internet ISP or local zone? No. BIND doesn't read/use the hosts file. What you _can_ do is configure BIND to believe it's authoritative for those zones, but I'd not recomme

Re: How to allow set Host file dns query priorities in BIND

2011-02-23 Thread Kevin Darcy
On 2/23/2011 4:08 AM, babu dheen wrote: Hi, Our setup is; We have internal DNS server wherein BIND is configured in RHEL 5 and many internal zones are configured. if Internet connection is down, our Internal DNS severs are not able to get the DNS query from ISP DNS server. Because of this, al

Re: How to allow set Host file dns query priorities in BIND

2011-02-23 Thread Eivind Olsen
> is there any option in BIND to give priority to HOST file before > connecting it to internet ISP or local zone? No. BIND doesn't read/use the hosts file. What you _can_ do is configure BIND to believe it's authoritative for those zones, but I'd not recommend doing this unless you have a very goo

Re: How to allow set Host file dns query priorities in BIND

2011-02-23 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 02:38:19PM +0530, babu dheen wrote a message of 61 lines which said: > if Internet connection is down, our Internal DNS severs are not able > to get the DNS query from ISP DNS server. Because of this, all users > are not able to access many critical application hosted i

Re: How to allow set Host file dns query priorities in BIND

2011-02-23 Thread Terry.
I was thinking this is most likely the network problem, so you'd better setup a good network with redundancy and high availability. 2011/2/23 babu dheen > > is there any option in BIND to give priority to HOST file before connecting > it to internet ISP or local zone? > > -- Free SmartDNS Hosti

How to allow set Host file dns query priorities in BIND

2011-02-23 Thread babu dheen
Hi,    Our setup is; We have internal DNS server wherein BIND is configured in RHEL 5 and many internal zones are configured. if Internet connection is down, our Internal DNS severs are not able to get the DNS query from ISP DNS server. Because of this, all users are not able to access many crit