Re: No name resolution when slave is down

2009-03-20 Thread John Wobus
Actually, master and slave has little (read "nothing") to do with whether the domain resolves. What's relevant are the delegation records pointing to your domain and the authoritative records for the two servers. In a normal, straight-forward setup for one master and one slave, both servers wou

Re: No name resolution when slave is down

2009-03-20 Thread dhottinger
DHCP options not giving both nameservers? What happens when you manually configure your workstation to only query the master? Quoting "Dennis J." : Hi, This morning the slave in our nameserver setup went down and surprisingly none of the domains hosted on these system could be resolved anymo

Fwd: No name resolution when slave is down

2009-03-20 Thread Chris Dew
-- Forwarded message -- From: Chris Dew Date: 2009/3/20 Subject: Re: No name resolution when slave is down To: "Dennis J." Asking the obvious here, but does your domain registrar list both your master and your slave as authoritative nameservers for your domain?

Re: No name resolution when slave is down

2009-03-20 Thread Scott Haneda
More data will need to be known. Where is the master and where is the slave, in the same subnet, or elsewhere? Were you previously getting any queries against the master at all, look in your logs? Are you sure your domains NS records even point to the master server? If the master is rep

No name resolution when slave is down

2009-03-20 Thread Dennis J.
Hi, This morning the slave in our nameserver setup went down and surprisingly none of the domains hosted on these system could be resolved anymore even with the master working perfectly fine. When I send queries directly to the master it resolves the domains fine so I'm not sure why a failure o