Re: [Pdns-users] Why NS records?

2010-08-25 Thread Maik Zumstrull
Yves Goergen wrote: > What records would I now add with NS type? One for every nameserver > that handles the zone domain, or also for each subdomain? NS records are only supposed to exist on zone apex names. > domains: example.com MASTER > records: example.com SOA ... > records: example.com A 1.

Re: [Pdns-users] Why NS records?

2010-08-25 Thread Yves Goergen
In the case where I have the zone example.com with a number of subdomains, I then have the example.com record in the domains table (with the MySQL backend) and an A record for each domain and subdomain in the records table. Also there's one SOA record for the zone and maybe MX records for each doma

Re: [Pdns-users] Why NS records?

2010-08-25 Thread Maik Zumstrull
Yves Goergen wrote: > what is it good for to add NS records to a domain in an authoritative > nameserver? I mean when somebody has already come here, they already > know what nameserver to ask for the domain. Why would the nameserver > reply with "I am the one to ask for that domain" if it can onl

Re: [Pdns-users] Why NS records?

2010-08-25 Thread bert hubert
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 06:38:38PM +0200, Yves Goergen wrote: > Hi, > > what is it good for to add NS records to a domain in an authoritative > nameserver? I mean when somebody has already come here, they already This is the way the DNS works. DNS is actually quite a bit more complicated than it

[Pdns-users] Why NS records?

2010-08-25 Thread Yves Goergen
Hi, what is it good for to add NS records to a domain in an authoritative nameserver? I mean when somebody has already come here, they already know what nameserver to ask for the domain. Why would the nameserver reply with "I am the one to ask for that domain" if it can only say that when being as

[Pdns-users] OpenDBX + PowerDNS - Unable to execute query - Attempt to initiate a new Adaptive Server operation

2010-08-25 Thread Robert Dunkley
Hi Everyone, I'm load testing PowerDNS with OpenDBX (Using MSSQL) backend server with Dnsperf. Unless I restrict the testing to about 100 queries per second or less I start getting a much higher than expected number of failed dns responses and the entries like the one below keep appearing in the