Re: Run two copies of named from rc.conf?

2002-11-19 Thread Hellmuth Michaelis
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Nov 17), John De Boskey said: It would be nice if rc.conf could start a 2nd copy of named (split dns). Comments on the following simplistic patch? Just upgrade to bind 9 and set up two views. Much easier :) If bind 8 is going to stay in the tree for

Re: Run two copies of named from rc.conf?

2002-11-19 Thread Riccardo Torrini
On 19-Nov-2002 (04:06:22/GMT) John De Boskey wrote: I need to kick off 2 name servers. The first is authoritive for the domain as seen externally and the 2nd which is authoritive for the internal network. I have only one named running, SOA for torrini.org for external and internal host and

Re: Run two copies of named from rc.conf?

2002-11-18 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 17), John De Boskey said: It would be nice if rc.conf could start a 2nd copy of named (split dns). Comments on the following simplistic patch? Just upgrade to bind 9 and set up two views. Much easier :) -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe:

Re: Run two copies of named from rc.conf?

2002-11-18 Thread Brad Knowles
At 9:15 PM -0800 2002/11/17, Juli Mallett wrote: Or at least abstracting it in such a way that it doesn't get in anyone's way, and so it won't trigger the what if I need N where N2 case, and in some meaningful way... Like maybe using a named_configs lists, and start one named for each

Re: Run two copies of named from rc.conf?

2002-11-18 Thread Brad Knowles
At 10:01 PM -0800 2002/11/17, Terry Lambert wrote: Interior and exterior DNS is a useful case; however, there are multiple ways to set it up; in general, it's not possible to have interior authoritative DNS at the same time you have exterior authoritative DNS (this was a mistake we made on

Re: Run two copies of named from rc.conf?

2002-11-18 Thread Terry Lambert
Brad Knowles wrote: It depends on how you do it. You could $INCLUDE the exterior file inside the interior file, if that subset of information is the same. You could also use BIND 9 views. Otherwise, split-horizon can be a pain. If you have a LAN behind a transient network

Re: Run two copies of named from rc.conf?

2002-11-18 Thread Terry Lambert
Brad Knowles wrote: Sorry, I wasn't think of transient networks. Indeed, that does make things a lot uglier. I'll have to think some more about all the various implications, however. One of the draft RFC's in the FTP directory I referenced is a Best Current Practices document. --

Re: Run two copies of named from rc.conf?

2002-11-18 Thread John De Boskey
- Terry Lambert's Original Message - Brad Knowles wrote: Sorry, I wasn't think of transient networks. Indeed, that does make things a lot uglier. I'll have to think some more about all the various implications, however. One of the draft RFC's in the FTP directory I

Re: Run two copies of named from rc.conf?

2002-11-18 Thread Terry Lambert
John De Boskey wrote: This an interesting thread, but it seems to be getting a bit off target. I need to kick off 2 name servers. The first is authoritive for the domain as seen externally and the 2nd which is authoritive for the internal network. The internal forwards to the external

Re: Run two copies of named from rc.conf?

2002-11-18 Thread Brad Knowles
At 4:41 PM -0800 2002/11/18, Terry Lambert wrote: But. If you are transiently connected, then if the on site DNS server is authoritative, then there is no way to look up externally hosted services via DNS, unless the external DNS, also a hosted service, and therefore not transiently

Run two copies of named from rc.conf?

2002-11-17 Thread John De Boskey
It would be nice if rc.conf could start a 2nd copy of named (split dns). Comments on the following simplistic patch? -John cvs diff: Diffing src/etc Index: src/etc/rc.network === RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/etc/rc.network,v retrieving

Re: Run two copies of named from rc.conf?

2002-11-17 Thread Doug Barton
John De Boskey wrote: It would be nice if rc.conf could start a 2nd copy of named (split dns). IMO, running two named's on the same box is an edge case, and not likely to be attractive to the majority of our userbase. I think you might be better off with something in /usr/local/etc/rc.d.

Re: Run two copies of named from rc.conf?

2002-11-17 Thread Juli Mallett
* De: Doug Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Data: 2002-11-17 ] [ Subjecte: Re: Run two copies of named from rc.conf? ] John De Boskey wrote: It would be nice if rc.conf could start a 2nd copy of named (split dns). IMO, running two named's on the same box is an edge case

Re: Run two copies of named from rc.conf?

2002-11-17 Thread Terry Lambert
John De Boskey wrote: It would be nice if rc.conf could start a 2nd copy of named (split dns). Comments on the following simplistic patch? Interior and exterior DNS is a useful case; however, there are multiple ways to set it up; in general, it's not possible to have interior authoritative DNS