BIND Management

2010-02-08 Thread Thilanka Samarasekera
Is there a good BIND management tool out there? I am looking for the following features: - Ability to manage masters or slave zones - Centralized administration for all BIND instances - No size limits for zones - Ability to generate reports or monitor queries Thank you in advance ___

NXRRSET

2009-05-06 Thread Thilanka Samarasekera
Hello, I am running BIND version 9.2.3 on a Solaris 9 box. Every now and then I will see the following in my DNS cache: domain.com. 458 \- ;-$NXRRSET If I force a MX record lookup it does get the correct MX records for " domain.com". The explanation I have for "NXRRSET" is "Its th

DNS forwarders

2009-01-15 Thread Thilanka Samarasekera
Can someone tell me how a BIND 9 server selects what forwarder its going to use? I read that BIND 8 used roundtrip time through a ping but I cannot find how BIND 9 does that. Does it round-robin between the forwarders that are set? Thanks in advance. T _