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On 01/04/14 23:51, Josh Nielsen wrote:

> Okay, as long as makedns -e updates the external named server just
> like it would a local named instance.

Certainly seems to do so here.

> The reason I had asked that is because the documentation was rather
> ambiguously worded on that point. So now I'm just trying to figure
> out the best way to make xCAT only update the external DNS
> instance.

Good luck!

> Since you said that you have the problem of the local deamon
> starting up regardless when you run makedns -e, have you ever
> noticed whether it is actually updating local records also?

To be honest I've never checked..

> Is your /var/named/ directory on the xCAT server populated with
> zone files?

... it has some, but they all date from last year and given we've
added hosts in the last few weeks it doesn't appear to be regenerating
those.

> Also did you remove the MN's local host IP (whether loopback or
> assigned) from its /etc/resolv.conf and make it point only to the
> external DNS server's IP?

Correct, it only points to both of our external DNS servers.

> Since I'm trying to transition without an outage I think I will
> have to have a brief period where I have both the MN and the
> external server running identical named configs. Then I can slowly
> begin to move my compute cluster nodes to resolve to the external
> server in 10 node increments or so, so that I can troubleshoot any
> problems and undo it to resolve back to the MN again if need be. I
> just want to be as careful as possible.

Sounds like a plan, but be aware that you may need to run a separate
makedns to populate the local zone files as well as makedns -e to do
the external name servers.

Best of luck!
Chris
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 Christopher Samuel        Senior Systems Administrator
 VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative
 Email: [email protected] Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545
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