Re: How Zone Files Are Read

2020-12-16 Thread Mark Andrews
> On 17 Dec 2020, at 06:44, Timothe Litt wrote: > > > On 16-Dec-20 13:52, Tim Daneliuk wrote: >> On 12/16/20 12:25 PM, Timothe Litt wrote: >> >>> On 16-Dec-20 11:37, Tim Daneliuk wrote: >>> I ran into a situation yesterday which got me pondering something about bind. In

Re: How Zone Files Are Read

2020-12-16 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 16.12.20 um 19:18 schrieb Tim Daneliuk: On 12/16/20 11:36 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: where did i give the advice "don't fail"? please read my repsonse again! * the zone fails on the master * the zone is still available on the slaves * so the error isn't fatal * but you recognize your mistak

Re: How Zone Files Are Read

2020-12-16 Thread Timothe Litt
On 16-Dec-20 13:52, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > On 12/16/20 12:25 PM, Timothe Litt wrote: >> On 16-Dec-20 11:37, Tim Daneliuk wrote: >>> I ran into a situation yesterday which got me pondering something about >>> bind. >>> >>> In this case, a single line in a zone file was bad. The devops automation >

Re: How Zone Files Are Read

2020-12-16 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 12/16/20 12:25 PM, Timothe Litt wrote: > On 16-Dec-20 11:37, Tim Daneliuk wrote: >> I ran into a situation yesterday which got me pondering something about bind. >> >> In this case, a single line in a zone file was bad. The devops automation >> had inserted a space in the hostname field of a PT

Re: How Zone Files Are Read

2020-12-16 Thread Timothe Litt
On 16-Dec-20 11:37, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > I ran into a situation yesterday which got me pondering something about bind. > > In this case, a single line in a zone file was bad. The devops automation > had inserted a space in the hostname field of a PTR record. > > What was interesting was that - at

Re: How Zone Files Are Read

2020-12-16 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 12/16/20 11:36 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 16.12.20 um 18:26 schrieb Gregory Sloop: >> This isn't, IMO, very useful as a response to the OP. > > let that decide the OP > >> To sum up the response; "It's better to never fail!" >> >> Yes, that seems pretty obvious. It *would* be better t

Re: How Zone Files Are Read

2020-12-16 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 16.12.20 um 18:26 schrieb Gregory Sloop: This isn't, IMO, very useful as a response to the OP. let that decide the OP To sum up the response; "It's better to never fail!" Yes, that seems pretty obvious. It *would* be better to never fail. Way, way better. But the big problem in life

Re: How Zone Files Are Read

2020-12-16 Thread Gregory Sloop
This isn't, IMO, very useful as a response to the OP. To sum up the response; "It's better to never fail!" Yes, that seems pretty obvious. It *would* be better to never fail. Way, way better. But the big problem in life is; We're always failing! Dammit! So, learning how to gracefully fail, and

Re: How Zone Files Are Read

2020-12-16 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 16.12.20 um 17:37 schrieb Tim Daneliuk: I ran into a situation yesterday which got me pondering something about bind. In this case, a single line in a zone file was bad. The devops automation had inserted a space in the hostname field of a PTR record. What was interesting was that - at s