Re: bind caching dns

2012-05-14 Thread Ben
Hi Matthew, Sorry for late response.I enabled statistics-channel , and it gives web based output.What is caching hit ratio filed , i mean which option / filed tell us about how many queries comes from cache or...? BR Ben On 08/05/2012 10:09, Ben wrote: I am new with bind.I am trying to conf

records via GENERATE

2012-05-14 Thread hugo hugoo
Dear all, Is there a difference between the configuration of a set of A records using: 1) GENERATE command like: $GENERATE 0-255 $-1.2.3 A3.2.1.$ 2) Defining all the records one by one. - difference in the amount of memory used? - difference in the speed to retrive th

Re: records via GENERATE

2012-05-14 Thread Chris Thompson
On May 14 2012, hugo hugoo wrote: Is there a difference between the configuration of a set of A records using: 1) GENERATE command like: $GENERATE 0-255 $-1.2.3 A3.2.1.$ 2) Defining all the records one by one. - difference in the amount of memory used? - difference in the sp

RE: records via GENERATE

2012-05-14 Thread Todd Snyder
If I remember correctly, $GENERATE is a zone file syntax only. When you start up BIND, it parses those out and loads the generated records as if you'd written them out manually. $GENERATE just helps condense the zone file, but has no impact on overall operation. I'm sure someone from ISC coul

RE: records via GENERATE

2012-05-14 Thread Alan Shackelford
Todd is correct. The GENERATE only exists on the master DNS in the zone data file. The DNS data, as made available to the querying machines, will contain all the individual records upon startup, on the master and all slaves. Alan V. Shackelford Senior Systems Softwar

Clarification on wildcard falls into glue records

2012-05-14 Thread rams
Hi, I have NS record points a record [A/] which is falls into wildcard . But when I query for NS record against bind, we are not getting these records as glue records. ex: *.a.example.com A 1.1.1.1 example.com. NS abc.a.example.com. Querying example.com with any or ns. don't we get glue recor