Re: Bind99 and a slave named server

2013-08-21 Thread Alan Clegg
On Aug 20, 2013, at 11:31 PM, LuKreme wrote: > On 20 Aug 2013, at 20:42 , Alan Clegg wrote: >> If it's down that long and very often, you may want to consider putting your >> DNS on a reliable server/circuit/data center. > > Well, often is somewhat more than... 5? times in the last 18 years..

Re: Bind99 and a slave named server

2013-08-20 Thread Mark Andrews
Perhaps you should check that the master is running a nameserver and that it doesn't have firewalls blocking the DNS (both UDP and TCP). % dig soa covisp.net @75.148.117.92 ; <<>> DiG 9.10.0pre-alpha <<>> soa covisp.net @75.148.117.92 ;; global options: +cmd ;; connection timed out; no servers c

Re: Bind99 and a slave named server

2013-08-20 Thread LuKreme
On 20 Aug 2013, at 14:38 , Alan Clegg wrote: > To convert master to slave: [snip] > Bazinga! OK. Not Bazinga. $ grep covisp named.conf zone "covisp.net" { type slave; file "slave/covisp.net"; masters { 75.148.117.92; }; }; $ rndc status version: 9.9.3-P2 CPUs found: 2 worker threads: 2 UDP li

Re: Bind99 and a slave named server

2013-08-20 Thread Alan Clegg
On Aug 20, 2013, at 10:32 PM, LuKreme wrote: > I need the data in text because sometimes, the primary dns is down, and > sometimes it si down long enough to require that I switch the slave to be the > primary, and that means master. I can't do that if I don't have text records. Eh... You can

Re: Bind99 and a slave named server

2013-08-20 Thread Alan Clegg
On Aug 20, 2013, at 7:35 PM, LuKreme wrote: >> zone example.com { >> type master;// I own this. >> file "files/example.com"; // Here's where I read them from >> }; >> >> it will become: >> >> zone example.com { >> type slave; // Now

Re: Bind99 and a slave named server

2013-08-20 Thread Alan Clegg
On Aug 20, 2013, at 2:36 PM, LuKreme wrote: > > On 18 Aug 2013, at 19:20 , Noel Butler wrote: > >> As has been said already, there is really very little to it, and unless you >> sent it to Alan off-list, you still have _NOT_ provided the error logs >> after being asked by more than one pe

Re: Bind99 and a slave named server

2013-08-20 Thread LuKreme
On 18 Aug 2013, at 19:20 , Noel Butler wrote: > As has been said already, there is really very little to it, and unless you > sent it to Alan off-list, you still have _NOT_ provided the error logs > after being asked by more than one person. Thanks, I thought I was clear. I am *not* gettin

Re: Bind99 and a slave named server

2013-08-19 Thread Tony Finch
Dave Warren wrote: > > Change the zones from master to slave in your named.conf? There really isn't > much more to it than that, assuming you have a new authoritative master is > already configured and serving the zones. However, beware that BIND 9.9 defaults to "raw" zone files for slaved zones,

Re: Bind99 and a slave named server

2013-08-18 Thread Noel Butler
On Sun, 2013-08-18 at 17:36 -0600, LuKreme wrote: > On 18 Aug 2013, at 14:06 , Dave Warren wrote: > > > Change the zones from master to slave in your named.conf? There really > > isn't much more to it than that, assuming you have a new authoritative > > master is already configured and serving

Re: Bind99 and a slave named server

2013-08-18 Thread Dave Warren
On 2013-08-18 16:36, LuKreme wrote: On 18 Aug 2013, at 14:06 , Dave Warren wrote: Change the zones from master to slave in your named.conf? There really isn't much more to it than that, assuming you have a new authoritative master is already configured and serving the zones. Oh, there's a b

Re: Bind99 and a slave named server

2013-08-18 Thread LuKreme
On 18 Aug 2013, at 14:06 , Dave Warren wrote: > Change the zones from master to slave in your named.conf? There really isn't > much more to it than that, assuming you have a new authoritative master is > already configured and serving the zones. Oh, there's a bit more to it than that. There's

Re: Bind99 and a slave named server

2013-08-18 Thread Sten Carlsen
On 18/08/13 22:06, Dave Warren wrote: > On 2013-08-18 10:39, LuKreme wrote: >> Since it is all working, what I am looking for now is "how to convert >> you master bind server to a slave". > > Change the zones from master to slave in your named.conf? There really > isn't much more to it than that,

Re: Bind99 and a slave named server

2013-08-18 Thread Dave Warren
On 2013-08-18 10:39, LuKreme wrote: Since it is all working, what I am looking for now is "how to convert you master bind server to a slave". Change the zones from master to slave in your named.conf? There really isn't much more to it than that, assuming you have a new authoritative master i

Re: Bind99 and a slave named server

2013-08-18 Thread LuKreme
On 17 Aug 2013, at 09:02 , Alan Clegg wrote: > On Aug 17, 2013, at 5:12 AM, LuKreme wrote: >> On Aug 16, 2013, at 23:28, Noel Butler wrote: >>> I'm still trying to work out what the hell bind99 is >> <:).png> >> Sorry, that is how ports refers to bind 9.9 > > Thanks for that, but any word on th

Re: Bind99 and a slave named server

2013-08-17 Thread Alan Clegg
On Aug 17, 2013, at 5:12 AM, LuKreme wrote: > On Aug 16, 2013, at 23:28, Noel Butler wrote: >> I'm still trying to work out what the hell bind99 is > <:).png> > Sorry, that is how ports refers to bind 9.9 Thanks for that, but any word on the actual error messages? AlanC -- Alan Clegg | +1-91

Re: Bind99 and a slave named server

2013-08-17 Thread LuKreme
On Aug 16, 2013, at 23:28, Noel Butler wrote: > I'm still trying to work out what the hell bind99 is <> Sorry, that is how ports refers to bind 9.9 ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-

Re: Bind99 and a slave named server

2013-08-16 Thread Noel Butler
On Sat, 2013-08-17 at 01:18 -0400, Alan Clegg wrote: > On Aug 17, 2013, at 12:42 AM, LuKreme wrote: > > > [...] I could not get the slave to do anything other than post errors and > > refuse to start. Usually they were along the lines of not being able to > > bind to port 953 or of not being a

Re: Bind99 and a slave named server

2013-08-16 Thread Alan Clegg
On Aug 17, 2013, at 12:42 AM, LuKreme wrote: > [...] I could not get the slave to do anything other than post errors and > refuse to start. Usually they were along the lines of not being able to bind > to port 953 or of not being able to receive the zone updates. Can you provide the actual er

Bind99 and a slave named server

2013-08-16 Thread LuKreme
I've been running bind 9 on my FreeBSD servers for awhile. After putting a new machine in place I installed bind99 via ports on the new machine (the master) and updated bind to bind99 on the secondary DNS (the slave). However, I could not get the slave to do anything other than post errors and