Re: Why would a master zone use forwarders ?

2017-05-12 Thread Ben Croswell
If you load foo.com on server A and delegate bar.foo.com to server B with a global forwarder of server C you resolution will vary depending on forward first vs forward only and forwarders {}. With no forward {} the path for blah.bar.foo.com directed at server A will be A > C > B With forward {} th

Re: Why would a master zone use forwarders ?

2017-05-12 Thread Mik J via bind-users
Thank you Ben for your answer My server uses a global forwarding I don't understand what you wrote"If it is master for a foo.com and also has global forwarding it will use the global forward for any delegated child domains under foo.com unless they are also loaded locally." If my DNS is autoritat

Re: Why would a master zone use forwarders ?

2017-05-12 Thread Ben Croswell
This would only change behavior if the server has global forwarding. If it is master for a foo.com and also has global forwarding it will use the global forward for any delegated child domains under foo.com unless they are also loaded locally. The forward{} turns off global forwarding for that br

Why would a master zone use forwarders ?

2017-05-12 Thread Mik J via bind-users
Hello, If my DNS is master/slave for a zone, why would I want it to use forwarders. In other terms why would I wantzone "mydomain.com" {     type master;     file "zones/master/com/mydomain.com";     allow-update { acl; }; }; Instead of (forwarders {};)zone "mydomain.com" {     typ

Re: Providing GeoIP information for servers

2017-05-12 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 05/11/2017 10:46 AM, Timothe Litt wrote: On 10-May-17 17:50, John W. Blue wrote: >From the it-could-be-worse department: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/08/kansas-couple-sues-ip-mapping-firm-for-turning-their-life-into-a-digital-hell/ I am more a fan of continental geolocation ac