Re: NS geo-distribution

2013-04-29 Thread Chris Buxton
On Apr 29, 2013, at 9:01 PM, Dave Warren wrote: > With the vast majority of our customers being in North America (probably 75% > of users are in Canada), would it make sense to add a Europe based NS or > would this tend to return slower results on average since a potential user > would have a 1

Re: NS geo-distribution

2013-04-29 Thread Dave Warren
On 2013-04-29 21:35, Gary L. Burnore wrote: I would contend that fast inititial page load times is achieved through blazing web servers and a wide data path. It sure doesn't hurt, but introducing ~200ms of DNS lookups sure won't make things any faster. -- Dave Warren http://www.hireahit.com/

RE: NS geo-distribution

2013-04-29 Thread Gary L. Burnore
> -Original Message- > From: bind-users-bounces+gburnore=netbasix@lists.isc.org > [mailto:bind-users-bounces+gburnore=netbasix@lists.isc.org] On > Behalf Of Dave Warren > Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 12:02 AM > To: Bind Users Mailing List > Subject: NS geo-distribution > > Thought

NS geo-distribution

2013-04-29 Thread Dave Warren
Thoughts about how to best distribute NS servers hosting authoritative data for our zones? We currently host only about 300 zones so all zones live on all 3 servers but we're looking at replacing 1-2 of our NS servers due to reliability of the current servers. My thinking is to just pick three

Re: This didn't work....

2013-04-29 Thread John Miller
> Probably should've wrote that is the first case it was: > > $ORIGIN foo.example.com. > ... > ads NS ads.foo.example.com. > ... > ads A a.b.c.d > dc2 A a.b.c.e > dc3 A a.b.c.f > > And, the modified case was: > > $ORIGIN foo.example.com > ... > ads NS dc2.foo.example.com. > NS dc

Re: This didn't work....

2013-04-29 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
- Original Message - > Hi Lawrence, > I'm going to answer your questions a bit out of order, but hopefully > things'll still be clear. > > How do you have an AD domain where your AD servers aren't > > authoritative for itself? > > This is how our AD domain is set up -- the root of the

Re: How does bind select what master to use?

2013-04-29 Thread Barry Margolin
In article , Chris Buxton wrote: > On Apr 27, 2013, at 5:52 AM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > > On 27.04.13 01:03, Kevin Morgan wrote: > >> Does it use an algorithm to determine the best server to use or does > >> it try the masters in the order they are listed? I am wondering if > >> listi