Bind Clustering

2010-04-08 Thread Arnoud Tijssen
We use bind for DNS. At the moment we have one primary server that delegates updates to it`s two slave servers. Since everything nowadays is dependant on DNS I would like to cluster my primary server in case of a hardware failure or error. So, how do I setup two primary bind servers that keep e

Re: Bind Clustering

2010-04-08 Thread Fr34k
Hello, We used rsync to copy our master/primary data to the secondary servers. Using some script magic, the primary is still the master (via named.conf) since, as with most DBs, there can only be one source of truth. However, the secondary servers were almost mirror copies of the primary. Only

Re: Bind Clustering

2010-04-08 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 01:18:33PM +0200, Arnoud Tijssen wrote a message of 14 lines which said: > Since everything nowadays is dependant on DNS I would like to > cluster my primary server in case of a hardware failure or error. Why? I really do not see your point. You have three authoritativ

Re: Bind Clustering

2010-04-08 Thread Michael Hare
Doesn't DDNS rely on a single SOA? If so, is there a best practice on how to deal with this? -Michael On 4/8/2010 9:15 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 01:18:33PM +0200, Arnoud Tijssen wrote a message of 14 lines which said: Since everything nowadays is dependant

Re: Bind Clustering

2010-04-08 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 09:46:04AM -0500, Michael Hare wrote a message of 29 lines which said: > Doesn't DDNS rely on a single SOA? If so, is there a best practice > on how to deal with this? Are you sure the OP uses dynamic udpates? It is not obvious from his message. In that case, yes, he

Re: Bind Clustering

2010-04-08 Thread Gordon A. Lang
Arnoud wrote: > We use bind for DNS. > At the moment we have one primary server that delegates updates to it`s two > slave servers. > > Since everything nowadays is dependant on DNS I would like to cluster my > primary server in case of a hardware failure or error. > > So, how do I setup two pr

Re: Bind Clustering

2010-04-08 Thread Warren Kumari
On Apr 8, 2010, at 10:52 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 09:46:04AM -0500, Michael Hare wrote a message of 29 lines which said: Doesn't DDNS rely on a single SOA? If so, is there a best practice on how to deal with this? Are you sure the OP uses dynamic udpates? It