Re: backup DNS question

2004-07-27 Thread Marek Isalski
Kilian Krause writes: maybe i can throw in the reference to the "dnstracer" tool aswell. That's usually pretty handy to check where your bad dns data does come from. (in case you don't see the results you expected to have).. Another tool I find incredibly useful is DNS Bajaj: http://www.zonecut

Re: backup DNS question

2004-07-27 Thread Kilian Krause
Hi, > dig @a.root-servers.net ns > > You'll get back the response or you'll get a referral to the next level > down... maybe i can throw in the reference to the "dnstracer" tool aswell. That's usually pretty handy to check where your bad dns data does come from. (in case you don't see the resu

Re: backup DNS question

2004-07-27 Thread Nate Duehr
On Jul 26, 2004, at 10:47 PM, Nate Duehr wrote: On Jul 26, 2004, at 4:25 PM, Kilian Krause wrote: Hi Dan, until your ns1 goes down too, things should go fine. If you think, you need to worry, watch the load on ns1. If that goes alarmingly up, then things start going wrong (which is *very* unlikely

Re: backup DNS question

2004-07-26 Thread Nate Duehr
On Jul 26, 2004, at 4:25 PM, Kilian Krause wrote: Hi Dan, until your ns1 goes down too, things should go fine. If you think, you need to worry, watch the load on ns1. If that goes alarmingly up, then things start going wrong (which is *very* unlikely to happen). If however you desire to make sure y

Re: backup DNS question

2004-07-26 Thread Jason Lim
> We have: > ns1.lctc.org > ns2.lctc.org > > ns2.lctc.org is (aparently) down. It is in a locked and alarmed building. > > How is this effecting users of our DNS? This shouldn't affect them... that is the idea of having a minimum of 2 DNS servers, so that in the event one failed, the other will co

Re: backup DNS question

2004-07-26 Thread Kilian Krause
Hi Dan, until your ns1 goes down too, things should go fine. If you think, you need to worry, watch the load on ns1. If that goes alarmingly up, then things start going wrong (which is *very* unlikely to happen). If however you desire to make sure your DNS is safe and accessible even in case ns2 i

backup DNS question

2004-07-26 Thread Dan MacNeil
We have: ns1.lctc.org ns2.lctc.org ns2.lctc.org is (aparently) down. It is in a locked and alarmed building. How is this effecting users of our DNS? Where in the fine manual is this information? We've looked at the backup DNS chapter of the bind book. We've also