Re: [Pdns-users] PDNS for a TLD...

2014-10-13 Thread Peter van Dijk
Hello, On 13 Oct 2014, at 7:51 , Rob wrote: > > So in "untechnical","policywise" language: > > do you need to delegate authority ...? > > If not, then maybe keep it simple (whichever method that is). > > In some cases, we’ll be delegating authority, so we'll simply have the domain > NS reco

Re: [Pdns-users] PDNS for a TLD...

2014-10-12 Thread Rob
Hi, > So in "untechnical","policywise" language: > do you need to delegate authority ...? > If not, then maybe keep it simple (whichever method that is). In some cases, we’ll be delegating authority, so we'll simply have the domain NS records in the foo zone, nothing else. In other cases, cu

Re: [Pdns-users] PDNS for a TLD...

2014-10-12 Thread Rob
Hi, > > * For domains which use *custom* nameservers, we only need to include the > > NS records for purposes of delegation. For example, for “blah.foo": > > Yes this is correct, they are located in the foo zone (same domain_id as the > SOA record mentioned earlier). Thanks for mentioning t

Re: [Pdns-users] PDNS for a TLD...

2014-10-12 Thread Leo Vandewoestijne
> From: "Mark Scholten" > Subject: Re: [Pdns-users] PDNS for a TLD... > > Don't forget that you need to add NS records to the foo zone for the domain > and in the domain zone. > Not true per se; only if you delegate "something.foo". And, even "d

Re: [Pdns-users] PDNS for a TLD...

2014-10-11 Thread Mark Scholten
Hello Rob, > From: pdns-users-boun...@mailman.powerdns.com [mailto:pdns-users- > boun...@mailman.powerdns.com] On Behalf Of Rob > Sent: 08 October, 2014 6:03 > > Hi guys, > > (I'm not sure if my email reply made it out, since it's not appearing in the > archive. My apologies if you're receiving

Re: [Pdns-users] PDNS for a TLD...

2014-10-07 Thread Rob
Hi guys, (I'm not sure if my email reply made it out, since it's not appearing in the archive. My apologies if you're receiving this twice.) I really appreciate the responses from everyone so far. One thing I forgot to mention is that I’m using the MySQL backend. So, if I understand correctly:

Re: [Pdns-users] PDNS for a TLD...

2014-10-07 Thread P W
Hello Rob, 1) I'm assuming every domain (eg, somedomain.foo) will require an SOA record. Is it required that the TLD (ie, "foo") also have an SOA record? Of course you will require a SOA (Start of Authority) for the .foo zone. Be RFC compliant. This is very important if you change records of

Re: [Pdns-users] PDNS for a TLD...

2014-10-07 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Tuesday, October 07, 2014 10:03:12 AM Rob wrote: > 2) Assuming the the owner of "somedomain.foo" chooses to use their own > (custom) nameservers, and a request is made for, say, the A record of > "www.somedomain.foo", how is our nameserver expected to respond? Should it > reply with the custom

[Pdns-users] PDNS for a TLD...

2014-10-07 Thread Rob
Hi, We are rebuilding the registrar for a TLD which we fully control (let's call it .foo) and are looking at using PowerDNS. I have a couple of questions, some of which may not be specific to PowerDNS, but I hope the group doesn't mind if I ask them anyways: 1) I'm assuming every domain (eg, som