I can't remember the last time I had to update the list of root servers.
Ok. Good to know.
Actually I do remember, Apple was pushing out a root server list with
an out of date root host, but it was of no real consequence. Root
servers rarely change.
So, I take it you would recommend changing to one domain, and
changing some of the other servers to domain slaves for
redundancy, instead of doing zone tranfers with the multiple
domains?
First, we're talking about "zones", not domains, when we talk about
DNS hosting, and understanding the distinction is important. I
think it's one reason why you're having trouble wrapping your head
around this. When you start thinking in terms of zones, you can
begin to think of how multiple "domains" can be placed into zones
to make this all trivial.
But I didn't suggests what you describe here at all, but sure, you
could. Nor am I sure why you'd consider multiple slaves. They could
just forward to you servers as easily, in fact more easily, and the
recurse on from their if needed. Since you'd be caching, this would
be very efficient.
My suggestion was to have one zone, for all your schools, keeping
their current bogus domains, have all your schools use a set of
central DNS servers, that could run views, and call it a day.
Yes, I am having a hard time wrapping my head around the distinction
between a domain and a zone. My apologies. Wouldn't we have to have
a different zone for each bogus domain?
No, you could have a GTLD zone "lan".
Views might be something we can get into in the future, but
currently we don't have any zone info we would want to present to
the internet anyway, so I don't think we would need to do different
views.
Well that's why you use views ;)
At 9:54 PM -0500 11/20/05, Bret Alan wrote:
So, if we want centralized management (would be nice), just setup a
master server with each seperate domain as a forward and reverse
zone, and setup all the the other servers as slaves to that master?
Why need so many slaves at all?
You can either just do away with them (point your schools to your DNS
server on the WAN) or have them resolve through to your Masters.
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-dhan
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