Re: Confused about a basic concept

2013-06-05 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <05883710-136f-4dc2-8079-e29a68fed...@me.com>, Bryan Harris writes: > Hi everyone, > > Thanks for all the detailed responses, I think I have a better > understanding of things now. I was completely and totally confused about > UDP/TCP. I am just going to take a wild guess that doing i

Re: Confused about a basic concept

2013-06-05 Thread btb
On 2013.06.05 10.02, Bryan Harris wrote: > Hi all, > > I think I may be confused about a very basic DNS concept. Sorry if this has > been asked before. > > 1. I have a master and two slaves. > 2. The master server is the SOA for my zone. The SOA record points to the > master server. > 3. Each o

Re: Confused about a basic concept

2013-06-05 Thread Tony Finch
Bryan Harris wrote: > > After reading everything it looks to me like our hidden master configuration > is basically okay, but by some of the best practices described, it could be > better and easier to work with if we had a separate caching layer. Note that the caches live on the client side of D

Re: Confused about a basic concept

2013-06-05 Thread SM
Hi Bryan, At 09:52 05-06-2013, Bryan Harris wrote: Regarding if we need a hidden master in the first place, I wish I could remember. :-) It's been that way since I came here and I suspect it's a requirement we will simply have to keep using. Sometimes it is better to ask or else you can end u

Re: Confused about a basic concept

2013-06-05 Thread Bryan Harris
Hi everyone,Thanks for all the detailed responses, I think I have a better understanding of things now.  I was completely and totally confused about UDP/TCP.  I am just going to take a wild guess that doing iptables the way I described would've caused a bunch of problems...After reading everything

Re: Confused about a basic concept

2013-06-05 Thread Carlos M. Martinez
The 'hidden master' setup is a very good strategy for a number of reasons. I think the original description only derails a bit when using the term 'authoritative': > I'm being told "our authoritative DNS >> servers should not receive any queries", as well as "DNS slaves >> respond to quer

Re: Confused about a basic concept

2013-06-05 Thread Warren Kumari
On Jun 5, 2013, at 9:02 AM, Bryan Harris wrote: > Hi all, > > I think I may be confused about a very basic DNS concept. Many people are, but most don't a: know or B: admit it :-P > Sorry if this has been asked before. > > 1. I have a master and two slaves. > 2. The master server is the SOA

Re: Confused about a basic concept

2013-06-05 Thread Ben Croswell
Everything you listed is pretty close to accurate. A couple points of clarification. 8) The master needs UDP/TCP 53 open to the slaves. Before a zone transfer can happen the slave needs to get the SOA RR from the master to see if the serial number has changed. This normally happens over UDP 53(s