Re: MNAME not a listed NS record

2013-01-18 Thread Tim Maestas
nsupdate will use the MNAME regardless of whether it is matched by a NS record. ISC dhcpd, as you indicated, does not unless overridden manually via a zone statement. -Tim On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Chris Buxton cli...@buxtonfamily.us wrote: On Jan 16, 2013, at 1:01 PM, Chuck Swiger

Re: MNAME not a listed NS record

2013-01-17 Thread Barry Margolin
In article mailman.1089.1358406835.11945.bind-us...@lists.isc.org, Dave Warren li...@hireahit.com wrote: Because it is actually the master, and from what I can tell, the slaves will check against the MNAME to confirm whether they're up to date or not. No, slaves check against the IPs listed

MNAME not a listed NS record

2013-01-16 Thread Dave Warren
Is there anything technically wrong with having a SOA MNAME field that isn't listed as a NS record? The server listed as MNAME will host the zone and is authoritative for the zone, but out of latency concerns it isn't ideal to have other resolvers querying this server. Various online DNS

Re: MNAME not a listed NS record

2013-01-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 16, 2013, at 12:40 PM, Dave Warren wrote: Is there anything technically wrong with having a SOA MNAME field that isn't listed as a NS record? Sure. The SOA MNAME is expected to be the primary master nameserver for the zone; it's where things like dhcpd and such send dynamic updates

Re: MNAME not a listed NS record

2013-01-16 Thread Ben Croswell
3:42 PM, Dave Warren li...@hireahit.com wrote: Is there anything technically wrong with having a SOA MNAME field that isn't listed as a NS record? The server listed as MNAME will host the zone and is authoritative for the zone, but out of latency concerns it isn't ideal to have other resolvers

Re: MNAME not a listed NS record

2013-01-16 Thread Barry Margolin
In article mailman.1077.1358370123.11945.bind-us...@lists.isc.org, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: On Jan 16, 2013, at 12:40 PM, Dave Warren wrote: Is there anything technically wrong with having a SOA MNAME field that isn't listed as a NS record? Sure. The SOA MNAME is expected to

Re: MNAME not a listed NS record

2013-01-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 16, 2013, at 1:42 PM, Barry Margolin wrote: In article mailman.1077.1358370123.11945.bind-us...@lists.isc.org, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: On Jan 16, 2013, at 12:40 PM, Dave Warren wrote: Is there anything technically wrong with having a SOA MNAME field that isn't listed as

Re: MNAME not a listed NS record

2013-01-16 Thread Vernon Schryver
From: Dave Warren li...@hireahit.com Various online DNS diagnostic tools throw warnings, Speaking of so called DNS diagnostic tools, one claims that my domains have DNS servers with private network addresses. My only guess is that they don't know the difference between IPv6 addresses and RFC

Re: MNAME not a listed NS record

2013-01-16 Thread Mike Hoskins (michoski)
-Original Message- From: Vernon Schryver v...@rhyolite.com Date: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 5:05 PM To: bind-users@lists.isc.org bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: Re: MNAME not a listed NS record From: Dave Warren li...@hireahit.com Various online DNS diagnostic tools throw warnings

Re: MNAME not a listed NS record

2013-01-16 Thread Barry Margolin
In article mailman.1080.1358373225.11945.bind-us...@lists.isc.org, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: On Jan 16, 2013, at 1:42 PM, Barry Margolin wrote: In article mailman.1077.1358370123.11945.bind-us...@lists.isc.org, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: On Jan 16, 2013, at 12:40 PM,

Re: MNAME not a listed NS record

2013-01-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 16, 2013, at 4:30 PM, Barry Margolin wrote: [ ... ] On Jan 16, 2013, at 12:40 PM, Dave Warren wrote: Is there anything technically wrong with having a SOA MNAME field that isn't listed as a NS record? Sure. The SOA MNAME is expected to be the primary master nameserver for the

Re: MNAME not a listed NS record

2013-01-16 Thread Barry Margolin
In article mailman.1085.1358384707.11945.bind-us...@lists.isc.org, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: On Jan 16, 2013, at 4:30 PM, Barry Margolin wrote: [ ... ] On Jan 16, 2013, at 12:40 PM, Dave Warren wrote: Is there anything technically wrong with having a SOA MNAME field that isn't

Re: MNAME not a listed NS record

2013-01-16 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
Is there anything technically wrong with having a SOA MNAME field that isn't listed as a NS record? Not at all; that works fine. The server listed as MNAME will host the zone and is authoritative for the zone, but out of latency concerns it isn't ideal to have other resolvers querying this

Re: MNAME not a listed NS record

2013-01-16 Thread Dave Warren
On 1/16/2013 22:17, Jan-Piet Mens wrote: Is there anything technically wrong with having a SOA MNAME field that isn't listed as a NS record? Not at all; that works fine. Thanks. That's what I thought, but I wanted to confirm that this particular warning didn't have any backing in reality.

Re: MNAME not a listed NS record

2013-01-16 Thread Dave Warren
On 1/16/2013 13:53, Chuck Swiger wrote: True, but I don't see much utility from a nameserver which can be dynamically updated but not queried. It *can* be queried, it's just not ideal as the machine has a fair amount of load and has fairly high latency. Since I have secondaries in colocation