Re: DNS with several ip adessess

2014-01-03 Thread Johan Ihrén
Hi, On 03 Jan 2014, at 22:00 , Kevin Darcy wrote: > On 1/2/2014 5:47 PM, Johan Ihrén wrote: >> On 02 Jan 2014, at 16:37 , Alan Clegg wrote: >> >>> On Jan 2, 2014, at 9:19 AM, wbr...@e1b.org wrote: >>> >> Use views > Views +1 >>> >>> I’m a proponent of separating servers and NOT using

Re: DNS with several ip adessess

2014-01-03 Thread Kevin Darcy
On 1/2/2014 5:47 PM, Johan Ihrén wrote: On 02 Jan 2014, at 16:37 , Alan Clegg wrote: On Jan 2, 2014, at 9:19 AM, wbr...@e1b.org wrote: Use views Views +1 When were views added to BIND? We started using using multiple servers in BIND 4, and I don't recall views being available back then, b

Re: DNS with several ip adessess

2014-01-03 Thread Kevin Darcy
Views are like any advanced technology or technique in IT: if understood and used properly, they can be a big benefit; poorly understood and/or implemented, they can create a huge, unsupportable mess. I try to keep the number of views to a minimum, but given the complexity I have to deal with,

Re: DNS with several ip adessess

2014-01-03 Thread Thomas Schulz
> Views have been in bind "for all recent history". > > I've watched this thread and have been biting my tongue as long as I > could. > > I'm a proponent of separating servers and NOT using views, as any of > you that have taken a class that I've taught will attest. > > I've seen too many proble

Re: DNS with several ip adessess

2014-01-03 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
From: "Barry S. Finkel" One caveat with using virtual servers. Make sure that the DNS server on which the host machine relies is NOT the DNS server that is virtualized on that host. The host machine needs to be up before the VMs residing on that host come up. On 03.01.14 12:06, wbr...@e1b.o

Re: DNS with several ip adessess

2014-01-03 Thread WBrown
From: "Barry S. Finkel" > One caveat with using virtual servers. Make sure that the DNS server > on which the host machine relies is NOT the DNS server that is > virtualized on that host. The host machine needs to be up before > the VMs residing on that host come up. And you should never have

Re: Slowing down bind answers ?

2014-01-03 Thread WBrown
From: Mark Andrews > After that specify a final date for them to fix their machines by > after which you will send NXDOMAIN responses. Sometimes sending a > poisoned reponse is the only way to get peoples attention. > > zone "." { >type master; >file "empty"; > }; > > empty: > @ 0 IN SO