Re: [expert] can someone tell me?
Todd Lyons wrote: Addendum: The dns resolver on the client end will randomly pick one of the AUTHORITY servers. The end result is that your server will still get on average 1/3 of the requests, so no, it's no ok. You need to remove that dns server from being listed as authoritative. Thanks for the info Todd. I was under the apparently wrong impression that the client resolver would use the first available server in the AUTHORITY SECTION, i.e. the first one that is not busy at the time of the inquiry. I did not understand it to be a purely random process. Thanks for disabusing me of a long standing misconception. Keep up the good work. It is nice to see postings from the Mandrake people. I dare say that civileme has been as busy as a one-legged man in a ass-kicking contest. drjung -- J. Craig Woods UNIX/NT Network/System Administration http://www.trismegistus.net/resume.html Character is built upon the debris of despair --Emerson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] can someone tell me?
Addendum: J. Craig Woods wrote on Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 11:42:52PM -0500 : Since the gtld servers list my dns server as last in the AUTHORITY SECTION entry, I think I should be okay even if they have the wrong ip address for my dns server. What do you think? The dns resolver on the client end will randomly pick one of the AUTHORITY servers. The end result is that your server will still get on average 1/3 of the requests, so no, it's no ok. You need to remove that dns server from being listed as authoritative. Blue skies... Todd -- Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn Cooker Version mandrake-release-8.3-0.2mdk Kernel 2.4.18-20mdk msg55900/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] can someone tell me?
Todd, You are so very right. One thing I have found. During my phase of getting a .biz domain to be accepted as a nameserver, and moving our domains away from Netsol (I may have well been the first .biz namserver) Calling your agent helps. I've found the people at these smaller resellers to be very helpful. It's also amazing how when they contact Networks without Solutions things happen... fast too. So don't hesitate to call and be polite works wonders. Oh and about pachell... yep know what you mean. 2 years with pacbell 234 days down time (9 months free service too!) 9 months with ATT cable in my new apt. TOTAL downtime 35 minutes. (other than the @Home fiasco) James On Fri, 28 Jun 2002 23:42:52 -0500 J. Craig Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] said with temporary authority Todd Lyons wrote: I try to pick one at random. If I always pick a, and everybody who does things like me always picks a, this could create artificial load on a. I'm more or less trying to be environmentally friendly Hmmm, I like that kind of thinking. We need more like you out here. Everything works as expected, EXCEPT the ns1.mrball.net entry. If I manually query the register.com domain name servers, I get the correct IP. But everything else will be using the root name servers. The root name servers see the original host record and use that. The problem is simple: NSI won't remove a host record from their registry: 1) If it's pointed at by another domain. 2) If you didn't register it with them. 3) Even if you fix #1 and #2, they still won't remove it. : Yep, you are right on. This is my situation completely. Since the gtld servers list my dns server as last in the AUTHORITY SECTION entry, I think I should be okay even if they have the wrong ip address for my dns server. What do you think? If I read you correctly, you are saying that even if I remove my personal dns server from the AUTHORITY SECTION that the dns servers at Register.com maintain, this info will not be changed in the Global Top Level Domain name servers. Man, this does not sounds good. So far my web server and email server still work as they should but doesn't this spell trouble down the road? Thanks for your insight on this ToddMeister. drjung -- J. Craig Woods UNIX/NT Network/System Administration http://www.trismegistus.net/resume.html Character is built upon the debris of despair --Emerson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] can someone tell me?
J. Craig Woods wrote on Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 11:42:52PM -0500 : Yep, you are right on. This is my situation completely. Since the gtld servers list my dns server as last in the AUTHORITY SECTION entry, I think I should be okay even if they have the wrong ip address for my dns server. What do you think? If I read you correctly, you are saying that As long as your dns is not listed as authoritative for your domain (or any other domain), you should be fine. If you ever do need to serve your own DNS, you'll have to name it different from the previous name. even if I remove my personal dns server from the AUTHORITY SECTION that the dns servers at Register.com maintain, this info will not be changed in the Global Top Level Domain name servers. Man, this does not sounds good. So far my web server and email server still work as they should but doesn't this spell trouble down the road? Only for NSI as experienced people are leaving them with alarming regularity. Other than that, it's their registry and they're doing with it what they damn well please. The hook is if you transfer to us, you get control over things like this but in practice, it doesn't seem to work that way. Blue skies... Todd -- Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn Cooker Version mandrake-release-8.3-0.2mdk Kernel 2.4.18-20mdk msg55868/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
