High IOWAIT when running multiple rndc addzone / delzone causing dropped queries

2013-02-27 Thread Another Email
Hello, I was wondering if someone on this list can assist me in figuring this out.  I am trying to run the rndc addzone / delzone for many domains at once on a set of name servers.  When this is done the the load on the box goes very high, and the process just slows right down to a halt

Re: rndc addzone|delzone: some questions

2013-01-27 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
Evan, On Sun Jan 27 2013 at 00:10:28 CET, Evan Hunt wrote: Delzone just means delete the zone from named, not delete the zone file from the filesystem. (And I reckon we can do a good deal more harm by deleting files you wanted to keep than by leaving files for you to delete yourself...)

rndc addzone|delzone: some questions

2013-01-26 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
strongly? :) 3. If I direct `rndc addzone|delzone' to the same named instance from multiple processes (from the same source IP address), is there any danger of the .nzf file being corrupted? Thank you for your time. Regards, -JP ___ Please

Re: rndc addzone|delzone: some questions

2013-01-26 Thread Evan Hunt
direct `rndc addzone|delzone' to the same named instance from multiple processes (from the same source IP address), is there any danger of the .nzf file being corrupted? No. (Or, if so, it would be a serious flaw, and I haven't seen any bug reports about that.) -- Evan Hunt -- e...@isc.org

rndc addzone|delzone

2012-01-01 Thread DNSbed.com
Hello, Has anyone tried the new features of rndc addzone|delzone with BIND-9.7? Will the zone added|deleted get transfered between master and slaves? Thanks. ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from

Re: rndc addzone|delzone

2012-01-01 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
Has anyone tried the new features of rndc addzone|delzone with BIND-9.7? Will the zone added|deleted get transfered between master and slaves? No, the newly added (or deleted) zone will not be automatcially added to (deleted from) slave servers. (Slaves require a different zone definition

Re: rndc addzone|delzone

2012-01-01 Thread DNSbed.com
On Sun, 1 Jan 2012 13:05:41 +0100, Jan-Piet Mens jpmens@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone tried the new features of rndc addzone|delzone with BIND-9.7? Will the zone added|deleted get transfered between master and slaves? No, the newly added (or deleted) zone will not be automatcially added

Re: rndc addzone|delzone

2012-01-01 Thread Carsten Strotmann (private)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 1/1/12 1:18 PM, DNSbed.com wrote: On Sun, 1 Jan 2012 13:05:41 +0100, Jan-Piet Mens jpmens@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone tried the new features of rndc addzone|delzone with BIND-9.7? Will the zone added|deleted get transfered between master

Re: rndc addzone|delzone

2012-01-01 Thread DNSbed.com
On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 13:39:21 +0100, Carsten Strotmann (private) c...@strotmann.de wrote: This is an improvement over the situation without rndc addzone, where one had to use some kind of remote access to change the named.conf on the secondaries. I have been doing this way with my dns

RE: rndc addzone/delzone in 9.7.2rc1 (was: rndc reconfig delays)

2010-08-28 Thread Timothe Litt
Hunt Cc: bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: Re: rndc addzone/delzone in 9.7.2rc1 (was: rndc reconfig delays) On Fri, 27 Aug 2010, Evan Hunt wrote: Non-obvious isn't the point. We thought of having the file be named directly after the view, but view names are allowed to include characters

rndc addzone/delzone in 9.7.2rc1 (was: rndc reconfig delays)

2010-08-27 Thread Rob Foehl
On Thu, 26 Aug 2010, Rob Foehl wrote: My next step is going to be to experiment with the rndc addzone/delzone feature in the 9.7.2 betas, which hopefully should avoid any need to attempt a reconfig during normal use. That aside, is there anything else I could be doing to speed things up? I

Re: rndc addzone/delzone in 9.7.2rc1 (was: rndc reconfig delays)

2010-08-27 Thread Evan Hunt
I'm having a hard time following the motivation behind these changes. Why is the filename non-configurable and non-obvious? Non-configurable may change. Non-obvious isn't the point. We thought of having the file be named directly after the view, but view names are allowed to include

Re: rndc addzone/delzone in 9.7.2rc1 (was: rndc reconfig delays)

2010-08-27 Thread Rob Foehl
On Fri, 27 Aug 2010, Evan Hunt wrote: Non-obvious isn't the point. We thought of having the file be named directly after the view, but view names are allowed to include characters that are forbidden in file names. Before opening the file we'd have to check the name's legality, ensure it