Re: [opensuse] setting up secondary DNS with Yast (SuSE 10.0)

2007-03-11 Thread David Brodbeck
M Harris wrote: I suppose the way to handle this is to make the first server a caching nameserver forwarding to the second server and then outside. The second server then forwards only outside. Changes are made to the second server *only* (or it caches from outside) and the primary

Re: [opensuse] setting up secondary DNS with Yast (SuSE 10.0)

2007-03-11 Thread John Andersen
On Saturday 10 March 2007, M Harris wrote: ... the client only moves to the second nameserver if the first is unavailable... if the first cannot resolve the name ( but was available to do the lookup ) then the name remains unresolved. This is true for the client side. However I am

Re: [opensuse] setting up secondary DNS with Yast (SuSE 10.0)

2007-03-10 Thread M Harris
On Friday 09 March 2007 23:44, John Andersen wrote: I don't believe that is true. Clients only use the second dns server if the first becomes unreachable. yikes... ... well I'm gonna have to experiment with this a bit... would not be the first time I thought I understood

Re: [opensuse] setting up secondary DNS with Yast (SuSE 10.0)

2007-03-10 Thread M Harris
On Saturday 10 March 2007 22:34, M Harris wrote: yikes... ... well I'm gonna have to experiment with this a bit... would not be the first time I thought I understood something only to find out I still needed to understand it...   :-))   stand by... Andersen is

Re: [opensuse] setting up secondary DNS with Yast (SuSE 10.0)

2007-03-10 Thread M Harris
On Saturday 10 March 2007 23:07, M Harris wrote:   ... the client only moves to the second nameserver if the first is unavailable... And the other thing I'm gonna have to experiment with now are the forwarders in named.conf. If the the local dns does not resolve the name then it

RE: [opensuse] setting up secondary DNS with Yast (SuSE 10.0)

2007-03-09 Thread James D. Parra
On Thursday 08 March 2007 17:01, James D. Parra wrote: Is there a way in Yast, when configuring it as a DNS server, to have it go and retrieve the named info from the primary DNS server or must I load that info manually? Not in Yast. Clone the config by manually copying the

Re: [opensuse] setting up secondary DNS with Yast (SuSE 10.0)

2007-03-09 Thread M Harris
On Friday 09 March 2007 08:05, James D. Parra wrote: Is there a way for the second DNS server to poll info from the first DNS server? Sure, but there is no need really... when searching for name resolution the client searches the nameservers in order... if not finding a resolution on

Re: [opensuse] setting up secondary DNS with Yast (SuSE 10.0)

2007-03-09 Thread John Andersen
On Friday 09 March 2007, M Harris wrote: On Friday 09 March 2007 08:05, James D. Parra wrote: Is there a way for the second DNS server to poll info from the first DNS server? Sure, but there is no need really... when searching for name resolution the client searches the nameservers

Re: [opensuse] setting up secondary DNS with Yast (SuSE 10.0)

2007-03-08 Thread John Andersen
On Thursday 08 March 2007, James D. Parra wrote: Hello, I have a internal DNS machine setup and I want to create another as a secondary server. Is there a way in Yast to have poll the info from the primary server? Or, should I copy the named.conf.* files and /etc/named.d/* files? Thank

RE: [opensuse] setting up secondary DNS with Yast (SuSE 10.0)

2007-03-08 Thread James D. Parra
On Thursday 08 March 2007, James D. Parra wrote: Hello, I have an internal DNS machine and I want to create another as a secondary server. Is there a way in Yast to poll the info from the primary server? Or, should I copy the named.conf.* files and /etc/named.d/* files? Thank you, James

Re: [opensuse] setting up secondary DNS with Yast (SuSE 10.0)

2007-03-08 Thread John Andersen
On Thursday 08 March 2007, James D. Parra wrote: On Thursday 08 March 2007, James D. Parra wrote: Hello, I have an internal DNS machine and I want to create another as a secondary server. Is there a way in Yast to poll the info from the primary server? Or, should I copy the

Re: [opensuse] setting up secondary DNS with Yast (SuSE 10.0)

2007-03-08 Thread M Harris
On Thursday 08 March 2007 17:01, James D. Parra wrote: Is there a way in Yast, when configuring it as a DNS server, to have it go and retrieve the named info from the primary DNS server or must I load that info manually? Not in Yast. Clone the config by manually copying the