Re: What is proper fault-tolerant behavior?

2013-09-16 Thread Leonard Mills
At about Monday, September 16, 2013 6:54 PMDan McDaniel wrote: >querying the >failed fedora NS. Then it came back with a not found. My company's >networking group said it's the fault of the bad fedora NS. If the fedora NS had returned SERVFAIL or if it was not reachable, your company's NS WOULD

Re: What is proper fault-tolerant behavior?

2013-09-16 Thread Steven Carr
On 17 September 2013 02:54, Dan McDaniel wrote: > My question is shouldn't our nameservers try another fedora NS in order > to resolve the name? If not what good is it for fedora to have multiple > nameservers? Or am I misunderstanding how this should work? So this would really depend on the resp

What is proper fault-tolerant behavior?

2013-09-16 Thread Dan McDaniel
Here's the scenario. Last week one of the Fedora nameservers was not responding so I was having trouble resolving fedoraproject.org. Apparently my company's nameserver was sending out the request, receiving the list of nameservers from the root and then querying the failed fedora NS. Then it came

Behaviour of named with max-journal-size

2013-09-16 Thread Anthony Moore
Hi, I have an instance of named (9.9.3-P1-ESV) with a 150M zone (unsigned) and max-journal-size 100M with frequent dynamic updates (about 1 every second). Occasionally CPU usage for the named process will spike up to maximum and named becomes slow to respond to queries; some even time out. Thi