Re: ISO or virtual appliance

2013-08-22 Thread Mike
On 13-08-22 05:10 PM, Warren Kumari wrote: > This assumes that the machine going off-line is the only failure mode > -- if the "service" (like http) on goes down, but named continues > answering you will be hurting users. W Agreed - it's pretty simple to run something that checks HTTP's health and

Re: ISO or virtual appliance

2013-08-22 Thread Warren Kumari
On Aug 22, 2013, at 4:06 PM, Mike wrote: > On 13-08-22 01:39 AM, Manish Rane wrote: >> Well the main idea behind and have been struggling to configure for >> almost last one year is to have a open source alternative to DNS Based >> failover/System monitoring thus have inbound loadbalancer. > >

Re: ISO or virtual appliance

2013-08-22 Thread Mike
On 13-08-22 01:39 AM, Manish Rane wrote: > Well the main idea behind and have been struggling to configure for > almost last one year is to have a open source alternative to DNS Based > failover/System monitoring thus have inbound loadbalancer. Easy solution - have two nameservers / load balancer

Re: ISO or virtual appliance

2013-08-22 Thread btb
On 2013.08.22 00.39, Manish Rane wrote: Well the main idea behind and have been struggling to configure for almost last one year is to have a open source alternative to DNS Based failover/System monitoring thus have inbound loadbalancer. i guess it's worth noting, since i don't believe it's yet

Re: ISO or virtual appliance

2013-08-22 Thread Leonard Mills
MZ systems to handle the load. Using http to determine if DNS services are running is a very unusual complication. Hth Len > > From: Manish Rane >To: John Miller >Cc: bind-users >Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2013 9:39 PM >Subject:

Re: ISO or virtual appliance

2013-08-22 Thread Manish Rane
-- > *From:* Manish Rane [manish...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Thursday, August 22, 2013 5:05 AM > *To:* Mike Mitchell > *Cc:* Steven Carr; bind-users > > *Subject:* Re: ISO or virtual appliance > > Well, I was thinking on the same line. Use nagios plugins check_tcp

RE: ISO or virtual appliance

2013-08-22 Thread Mike Mitchell
e Mitchell From: Manish Rane [manish...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 5:05 AM To: Mike Mitchell Cc: Steven Carr; bind-users Subject: Re: ISO or virtual appliance Well, I was thinking on the same line. Use nagios plugins check_tcp and monitor the status. The only

Re: ISO or virtual appliance

2013-08-22 Thread Phil Mayers
On 22/08/13 11:09, Niall O'Reilly wrote: On 22 Aug 2013, at 10:49, Phil Mayers wrote: * Make the service name a CNAME into another small dynamic (sub-)zone. This is what most DNS-based LB do e.g. www.example.com CNAME www.lb.example.com, then make "lb.example.com" a small, dynamically-updated

Re: ISO or virtual appliance

2013-08-22 Thread Phil Mayers
On 22/08/13 11:10, Manish Rane wrote: Hmm...can you be please more elaboration. I mean in that case how the IP addresses or A records will be removed as the one CNAME entry is pointed to 2 hostsnames. Or would you want to monitor www.lb.example.com instead of www.examp

Re: ISO or virtual appliance

2013-08-22 Thread Manish Rane
Hmm...can you be please more elaboration. I mean in that case how the IP addresses or A records will be removed as the one CNAME entry is pointed to 2 hostsnames. Or would you want to monitor www.lb.example.com instead of www.example.com and keep example.com as a static entry? I am sorry I am bit

Re: ISO or virtual appliance

2013-08-22 Thread Niall O'Reilly
On 22 Aug 2013, at 10:49, Phil Mayers wrote: > * Make the service name a CNAME into another small dynamic (sub-)zone. This > is what most DNS-based LB do e.g. www.example.com CNAME www.lb.example.com, > then make "lb.example.com" a small, dynamically-updated zone. or delegate www.examp

Re: ISO or virtual appliance

2013-08-22 Thread Phil Mayers
On 22/08/13 10:05, Manish Rane wrote: Well, I was thinking on the same line. Use nagios plugins check_tcp and monitor the status. The only challenge I am seeing here is updating zone and nsupdate I believe can only work with Dynamic zones and not with static entries. Either: * Make the zone d

Re: ISO or virtual appliance

2013-08-22 Thread Manish Rane
hat monitored > status and returned the host IP address that was least loaded. > > Mike Mitchell > > > > Original message > From: Steven Carr > Date: 08/21/2013 10:25 PM (GMT-08:00) > To: bind-users > Subject: Re: ISO or virtual appliance >

Re: ISO or virtual appliance

2013-08-22 Thread Mike Mitchell
Several years ago I used a Perl script called "lbnamed" that monitored status and returned the host IP address that was least loaded. Mike Mitchell Original message From: Steven Carr Date: 08/21/2013 10:25 PM (GMT-08:00) To: bind-users Subject: Re: ISO or virtual

Re: ISO or virtual appliance

2013-08-21 Thread Steven Carr
On 22 August 2013 05:39, Manish Rane wrote: > So, DNS will monitor the host on port 80 and as soon as it detects that > either of the host/link is down it would remove the associated entry and > re-populate the entries > > Is any one aware of such solution readily available? I believe I already >

Re: ISO or virtual appliance

2013-08-21 Thread Manish Rane
Well the main idea behind and have been struggling to configure for almost last one year is to have a open source alternative to DNS Based failover/System monitoring thus have inbound loadbalancer. Where DNS server monitors the hosts on particular port and if any of the fails it removes the entry f

Re: ISO or virtual appliance

2013-08-21 Thread John Miller
Hi Manish, You can always grab a pre-canned ISO from turnkeylinux.org. You could also use Puppet or Chef recipes to get BIND up and running. I'm sure someone also has a Vagrant box available -- try vagrantbox.es. Generally speaking, though, if you're using an appliance in production, you n

RE: ISO or virtual appliance

2013-08-21 Thread Paul Roberts
From: bind-users-bounces+paul=callevanetworks@lists.isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounces+paul=callevanetworks@lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of Manish Rane Sent: 21 August 2013 20:04 To: Alan Clegg Cc: bind-users Subject: Re: ISO or virtual appliance Nah..let me clear the air. Is there any precom

Re: ISO or virtual appliance

2013-08-21 Thread Manish Rane
Nah..let me clear the air. Is there any precompiled only DNS ISO available or virtual appliance by which users can pop up the CD install the trimmed version of linux plus bind with some fancy GUI and thats it your DND appliance is ready. Or if not let me know a good GUI for bind with mysql backend

Re: ISO or virtual appliance

2013-08-21 Thread Alan Clegg
On Aug 21, 2013, at 2:49 PM, Manish Rane wrote: > Yeah even I am aware of infoblox. I am looking for open source. Debian ISO install followed by "apt-get install bind9"? AlanC -- Alan Clegg | +1-919-355-8851 | a...@clegg.com signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGM

Re: ISO or virtual appliance

2013-08-21 Thread Manish Rane
Yeah even I am aware of infoblox. I am looking for open source. On 22 Aug 2013 00:16, wrote: > On Thu, 22 Aug 2013, Manish Rane wrote: > > Hi Guys, >> >> Is there any ISO or virtual appliance available for BIND? Which ease out >> the deploy and configuration task. >> > > Free, or commercial? > >

Re: ISO or virtual appliance

2013-08-21 Thread bind
On Thu, 22 Aug 2013, Manish Rane wrote: Hi Guys, Is there any ISO or virtual appliance available for BIND? Which ease out the deploy and configuration task. Free, or commercial? I know Infoblox has this, though I have no direct experience with that side. http://www.infoblox.com/products/i