Server overwhelmed by rejections?

2010-01-15 Thread Dylan Martin
I recently had an odd occurrence with my DNS servers. I have two servers that act as caching resolvers for a community college and authoritative for the college's domain. A few days ago they both stopped working for about 15 minutes. The only clue I've been able to find is my logs contain an unu

Re: a question on bind cache

2010-01-15 Thread Kevin Darcy
When the DNS was designed, one primary assumption was that name/address mappings changed *infrequently*. Hence caching was integrated into the protocol, and is absolutely necessary for any kind of reasonable DNS performance. If you twist DNS to perform load-balancing and/or failover functions,

Re: Multiple masters?

2010-01-15 Thread Peter Laws
Chris Buxton wrote: Every slave server needs the following from its masters (whether that's the primary master and/or one or more slaves): - zone transfer access - notifications of zone updates OK. Unless you put in some special and usually unnecessary (and useless) configuration, the no

Re: Multiple masters?

2010-01-15 Thread Chris Buxton
On Jan 15, 2010, at 10:17 AM, Peter Laws wrote: > Chris Buxton wrote: >> On Jan 14, 2010, at 5:04 PM, Peter Laws wrote: >>> And I right in thinking that, on a slave, I can have multiple masters >>> designated for a particular zone? I just have to make sure that the slave >>> that is pretending t

Re: Multiple masters?

2010-01-15 Thread Peter Laws
Chris Buxton wrote: On Jan 14, 2010, at 5:04 PM, Peter Laws wrote: And I right in thinking that, on a slave, I can have multiple masters designated for a particular zone? I just have to make sure that the slave that is pretending to be the master allows transfers, right? Don't forget about