Re: ISO or virtual appliance

2013-08-22 Thread Mike
On 13-08-22 05:10 PM, Warren Kumari wrote: > This assumes that the machine going off-line is the only failure mode > -- if the "service" (like http) on goes down, but named continues > answering you will be hurting users. W Agreed - it's pretty simple to run something that checks HTTP's health and

Re: ISO or virtual appliance

2013-08-22 Thread Warren Kumari
On Aug 22, 2013, at 4:06 PM, Mike wrote: > On 13-08-22 01:39 AM, Manish Rane wrote: >> Well the main idea behind and have been struggling to configure for >> almost last one year is to have a open source alternative to DNS Based >> failover/System monitoring thus have inbound loadbalancer. > >

Re: ISO or virtual appliance

2013-08-22 Thread Mike
On 13-08-22 01:39 AM, Manish Rane wrote: > Well the main idea behind and have been struggling to configure for > almost last one year is to have a open source alternative to DNS Based > failover/System monitoring thus have inbound loadbalancer. Easy solution - have two nameservers / load balancer

Re: ISO or virtual appliance

2013-08-22 Thread btb
On 2013.08.22 00.39, Manish Rane wrote: Well the main idea behind and have been struggling to configure for almost last one year is to have a open source alternative to DNS Based failover/System monitoring thus have inbound loadbalancer. i guess it's worth noting, since i don't believe it's yet

Re: ISO or virtual appliance

2013-08-22 Thread Leonard Mills
That appears to be a strange desire.  If you need such high levels of "never allow a normal retry" you might look at using either Prolexic or Akami services to create a geographically-diverse network topology.  Or even a simple 3DNS or router package at your borders with a few inner-DMZ systems

Re: ISO or virtual appliance

2013-08-22 Thread Manish Rane
That seems to be a dead link. I am unable to down load the file. -- Thanks and Regards, Manish R On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 9:05 PM, Mike Mitchell wrote: > lbnamed is a DNS server written in Perl. You delegate a zone to it,

Strange problem with a query deleting a record...

2013-08-22 Thread johnh
Greetings All, First of all, I apologize if this is out of place - I'm having a very strange issue that is either a problem with bind itself, or at least, affecting it. Summary: For only ONE address, whenever I attempt to access it through my squid proxy, the record disappears from DNS, and t

RE: ISO or virtual appliance

2013-08-22 Thread Mike Mitchell
lbnamed is a DNS server written in Perl. You delegate a zone to it, and let it dynamically figure out the best IP address to return. See http://www.stanford.edu/~riepel/lbnamed/ There are 3rd-party appliances that do similar functions, such as F5's GTM or Cisco's GSS. Mike Mitchell __

Re: rndc flush and TTL values

2013-08-22 Thread Barry Margolin
In article , sumsum 2000 wrote: > Yes, i do have other zones beside makemytrip.com. Thanks for the info In particular, do you use forwarders for abc.com, and are you forwarding to a caching server? > > > On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Barry Margolin wrote: > > > In article , > > sumsum

Re: rndc flush and TTL values

2013-08-22 Thread sumsum 2000
Yes, i do have other zones beside makemytrip.com. Thanks for the info On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Barry Margolin wrote: > In article , > sumsum 2000 wrote: > > > This is my configuration for positive and negative cache TTL. > > > > view "newDNS" IN { > >

Re: rndc flush and TTL values

2013-08-22 Thread Barry Margolin
In article , sumsum 2000 wrote: > This is my configuration for positive and negative cache TTL. > > view "newDNS" IN { > max-cache-ttl 300; > max-ncache-ttl 200; > > zone "makemytrip.com" IN { >

Re: after Install

2013-08-22 Thread Phil Mayers
On 22/08/13 11:05, Nidal Shater wrote: Hi After I installed bind9, by using configuration,make and make install, I typed "/etc/init.d/named restart" to test Bind, but linux(centos6.3) return this : "/etc/init.d/named: No such file or directory" "make install" does not install a SysV init script

Re: ISO or virtual appliance

2013-08-22 Thread Phil Mayers
On 22/08/13 11:09, Niall O'Reilly wrote: On 22 Aug 2013, at 10:49, Phil Mayers wrote: * Make the service name a CNAME into another small dynamic (sub-)zone. This is what most DNS-based LB do e.g. www.example.com CNAME www.lb.example.com, then make "lb.example.com" a small, dynamically-updated

Re: ISO or virtual appliance

2013-08-22 Thread Phil Mayers
On 22/08/13 11:10, Manish Rane wrote: Hmm...can you be please more elaboration. I mean in that case how the IP addresses or A records will be removed as the one CNAME entry is pointed to 2 hostsnames. Or would you want to monitor www.lb.example.com instead of www.examp

Re: ISO or virtual appliance

2013-08-22 Thread Manish Rane
Hmm...can you be please more elaboration. I mean in that case how the IP addresses or A records will be removed as the one CNAME entry is pointed to 2 hostsnames. Or would you want to monitor www.lb.example.com instead of www.example.com and keep example.com as a static entry? I am sorry I am bit

Re: ISO or virtual appliance

2013-08-22 Thread Niall O'Reilly
On 22 Aug 2013, at 10:49, Phil Mayers wrote: > * Make the service name a CNAME into another small dynamic (sub-)zone. This > is what most DNS-based LB do e.g. www.example.com CNAME www.lb.example.com, > then make "lb.example.com" a small, dynamically-updated zone. or delegate www.examp

after Install

2013-08-22 Thread Nidal Shater
Hi After I installed bind9, by using configuration,make and make install, I typed "/etc/init.d/named restart" to test Bind, but linux(centos6.3) return this : "/etc/init.d/named: No such file or directory" could you help me to get rid of it please ? Nidal

Re: ISO or virtual appliance

2013-08-22 Thread Phil Mayers
On 22/08/13 10:05, Manish Rane wrote: Well, I was thinking on the same line. Use nagios plugins check_tcp and monitor the status. The only challenge I am seeing here is updating zone and nsupdate I believe can only work with Dynamic zones and not with static entries. Either: * Make the zone d

rndc flush and TTL values

2013-08-22 Thread sumsum 2000
This is my configuration for positive and negative cache TTL. view "newDNS" IN { max-cache-ttl 300; max-ncache-ttl 200; zone "makemytrip.com" IN { type forward;

Re: ISO or virtual appliance

2013-08-22 Thread Manish Rane
Well, I was thinking on the same line. Use nagios plugins check_tcp and monitor the status. The only challenge I am seeing here is updating zone and nsupdate I believe can only work with Dynamic zones and not with static entries. Sed/awk might not scale well if the zone count increases hence wonde

Re: ISO or virtual appliance

2013-08-22 Thread Mike Mitchell
Several years ago I used a Perl script called "lbnamed" that monitored status and returned the host IP address that was least loaded. Mike Mitchell Original message From: Steven Carr Date: 08/21/2013 10:25 PM (GMT-08:00) To: bind-users Subject: Re: ISO or virtual appliance