Re: Max slaves limit?

2017-12-19 Thread Bob McDonald
Mea culpa of the Windows process. I should have indicated that as well. Also I was remiss on not mentioning the MINIMAL-RESPONSES option in the discussion. It sounds like there are some newer options available under bind 9.11 and up (Thanks Mr. Andrews!) That's why I read this list. It's a great s

Re: Max slaves limit?

2017-12-18 Thread Grant Taylor via bind-users
On 12/18/2017 12:24 PM, Bob McDonald wrote: I've seen cases where folks have added all of the Domain Controller addresses for an AD forest to the NS list for a domain. I believe that DCs do this by themselves if they are using MS-DNS. (I think the netlogon service does a dynamic DNS update an

Re: Max slaves limit?

2017-12-18 Thread Tony Finch
Bob McDonald wrote: > I've seen cases where folks have added all of the Domain Controller > addresses for an AD forest to the NS list for a domain. This results in > huge TCP response packets for ALL requests to that domain. You can safely reduce the size of answers using the `minimal-responses

Re: Max slaves limit?

2017-12-18 Thread Bob McDonald
Barry has a good point. I've seen cases where folks have added all of the Domain Controller addresses for an AD forest to the NS list for a domain. This results in huge TCP response packets for ALL requests to that domain. Folks don't seem to get the concept of stealth slaves and the associated NOT

Re: Max slaves limit?

2017-12-18 Thread Barry Margolin
In article , "Barry S. Finkel" wrote: > On Sun, 17 Dec 2017 22:06:58 +0530, vijay bommareddy > wrote: > > Hello folks, > > > > I'm trying to find more information on the practical limitations of adding > > more slaves. > > Can someone tell me, how many number of slaves does BIND technically >

Re: Max slaves limit?

2017-12-18 Thread Ben Croswell
That is a valid consideration but being a slave doesn't always mean being in the NS records. On Dec 18, 2017 9:47 AM, "Barry S. Finkel" wrote: > On Sun, 17 Dec 2017 22:06:58 +0530, vijay bommareddy > wrote: > >> Hello folks, >> >> I'm trying to find more information on the practical limitations

Re: Max slaves limit?

2017-12-18 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On Sun, 17 Dec 2017 22:06:58 +0530, vijay bommareddy wrote: Hello folks, I'm trying to find more information on the practical limitations of adding more slaves. Can someone tell me, how many number of slaves does BIND technically support? Is there a maximum limit per master server? Thank you V

Re: Max slaves limit?

2017-12-18 Thread Tony Finch
Barry Margolin wrote: > vijay bommareddy wrote: > > > > Can someone tell me, how many number of slaves does BIND technically > > support? Is there a maximum limit per master server? > > Why would there be any limit? The master doesn't need to keep track of > slaves, it just responds to queries fr

Re: Max slaves limit?

2017-12-17 Thread Barry Margolin
In article , vijay bommareddy wrote: > Hello folks, > > I'm trying to find more information on the practical limitations of adding > more slaves. > Can someone tell me, how many number of slaves does BIND technically > support? Is there a maximum limit per master server? Why would there be any

Max slaves limit?

2017-12-17 Thread vijay bommareddy
Hello folks, I'm trying to find more information on the practical limitations of adding more slaves. Can someone tell me, how many number of slaves does BIND technically support? Is there a maximum limit per master server? Thank you Vijay ___ Please vis