Re: Need help on delegation to subdomain/external servers

2009-09-23 Thread Merton Campbell Crockett
The re-design of the DNS network architecture was one of the few internal projects where a credible Concept of Operations document was produced. It had detailed graphics showing the flow of network traffic between local and regional name servers. There were detailed discussions and

Re: Need help on delegation to subdomain/external servers

2009-09-21 Thread Kevin Darcy
What is unfortunate about BIND picking a forwarder based on real, up-to-date information about the thing that the end-user ultimately cares about -- how quickly the queries get answered? Surely this is better than hardcoding a bunch of assumptions into your forwarding configs, assumptions

Re: Need help on delegation to subdomain/external servers

2009-09-20 Thread Merton Campbell Crockett
When I was transferred into our corporate IT Networks group, I inherited a DNS architecture based on forwarding DNS queries to regional name servers. The regional name servers had access to the Internet and were able to provide name and address resolution for both Intranet and Internet

RE: Need help on delegation to subdomain/external servers

2009-09-17 Thread RUOFF LARS
Hello, Thanks for your detailed answer. I think I don't have enough DNS knowledge to understand every bit of it, but I'll try to clarify. [mailto:bind-users-boun...@lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Darcy: RUOFF LARS wrote: Hi, i'm using BIND9 on an Ubuntu-8.10-server. I'd like to

Re: Need help on delegation to subdomain/external servers

2009-09-17 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 17.09.09 11:16, RUOFF LARS wrote: The reason for this is: I have a hot-swap redundant system where 1 out of 2 servers is active at any given time and the other is standby. DNS is (mis?-)used to tell the clients which one is active at a given moment. The idea is that clients resolve a name

Re: Need help on delegation to subdomain/external servers

2009-09-17 Thread Kevin Darcy
RUOFF LARS wrote: Hello, Thanks for your detailed answer. I think I don't have enough DNS knowledge to understand every bit of it, but I'll try to clarify. [mailto:bind-users-boun...@lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Darcy: RUOFF LARS wrote: Hi, i'm using BIND9 on an

RE: Need help on delegation to subdomain/external servers

2009-09-17 Thread RUOFF LARS
[mailto:bind-users-boun...@lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Darcy [...] I have a hot-swap redundant system where 1 out of 2 servers is active at any given time and the other is standby. DNS is (mis?-)used to tell the clients which one is active at a given moment. The idea is

Re: Need help on delegation to subdomain/external servers

2009-09-17 Thread Kevin Darcy
RUOFF LARS wrote: [mailto:bind-users-boun...@lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Darcy BTW, at the moment I am experimenting a solution usign a forward zone: zone dummy.ts IN { type forward; forward only; forwarders { 172.25.32.171; 192.168.2.3; }; }; It seems

Re: Need help on delegation to subdomain/external servers

2009-09-17 Thread Ben Croswell
I have done some testing of the RTT forwarding and found that as long as only one, or the other of the two nameservers that you forward to is active at any given time the switch over is actually very quick. The exception being the first query when the currently active forwarder dies and the second

Need help on delegation to subdomain/external servers

2009-09-16 Thread RUOFF LARS
Hi, i'm using BIND9 on an Ubuntu-8.10-server. I'd like to configure the following: For a given name (eg. vega.lab.ts), I'd like to forward the request to two external DNS servers, *simultaneously*, and respond with the first response that i get. Is this possible? I didn't see how to do it

Re: Need help on delegation to subdomain/external servers

2009-09-16 Thread Adam Tkac
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 05:20:21PM +0200, RUOFF LARS wrote: Hi, i'm using BIND9 on an Ubuntu-8.10-server. I'd like to configure the following: For a given name (eg. vega.lab.ts), I'd like to forward the request to two external DNS servers, *simultaneously*, and respond with the first

Re: Need help on delegation to subdomain/external servers

2009-09-16 Thread Kevin Darcy
RUOFF LARS wrote: Hi, i'm using BIND9 on an Ubuntu-8.10-server. I'd like to configure the following: For a given name (eg. vega.lab.ts), I'd like to forward the request to two external DNS servers, *simultaneously*, and respond with the first response that i get. Is this possible? Short