Re: Single Zone Forwarding Dilema

2009-06-05 Thread Ben Croswell
If you want to force forwarding you will probably want to add the forward only; directive. By default your server will try to follow NS delegations and then forward if it can't follow them Forward only; tells it to not even bother trying to follow NS delegations. -- -Ben Croswell On Fri, Jun 5

Single Zone Forwarding Dilema

2009-06-05 Thread Mark S. Turczan
Folks, I'm trying to understand the behavior of a single zone that I'm forwarding queries for. Essentially, when I do a dig fwd.zone.net SOA the request seems to be properly forwarded to the nameservers in the forward statement. I've verified this with tcpdump running on my primary namese

Re: publish bind9 server

2009-06-05 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
Hello, On 05.06.09 14:07, Javier Martinez wrote: > In my current project, we are using a bind9 server to assign web requests > to different amazon ec2 computers. When a request is incoming, bind server > (A) resolves the computer that has the specified subdomain and redirects > the request to that

Re: Newbie setup help

2009-06-05 Thread Dimitri Yioulos
On Friday 05 June 2009 12:04:28 pm you wrote: > > we are using a combination of host files and > > DNS from our AD system currently. > > I'm not the final authority at all of this, but > I maintain a similar arrangement for my > company, so let me see if I can assist. First > off, probably best to

Newbie setup help

2009-06-05 Thread Dimitri Yioulos
Hello to all. While I'm a seasoned sysadmin, I must admit that I've never worked with BIND ... until now. I'm tasked with setting up DNS on a colocated Linux server. Here's more info., as provided by a manager, who thinks I know all about BIND (no, I didn't lie to him. He ASSumed, and I wa

RE: Trying to understand DNSSEC and BIND versions better

2009-06-05 Thread Jeff Lightner
BIND versions on RHEL (e.g. 9.3.4-6.0.3.P1.el5_2) have backported patches from later BIND versions so it isn't exactly the same animal as the EOL 9.3 which is why it isn't listed simply as 9.3 -Original Message- From: bind-users-boun...@lists.isc.org [mailto:bind-users-boun...@lists.isc.or

publish bind9 server

2009-06-05 Thread Javier Martinez
Hi all. This is my first message on this list. In my current project, we are using a bind9 server to assign web requests to different amazon ec2 computers. When a request is incoming, bind server (A) resolves the computer that has the specified subdomain and redirects the request to that compute