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>I am seeing in your documentation that it looks like whatever.file can't
Re: Lame Delegation
From: Men & Mice Support
Date: Wednesday, June 9, 1999
Time: 6:19:00 am
>be something like valueport.file it needs to be valueport LBR, is that
>correct? DO I create that file or is it made automatically, where does it
>go?
Which file is this? If you mean the filename for secondary service, the
server will create this file as needed.
>The example also shows one domain with one ip address. How can that be
>loadbalancing? The second record has 3. This is in the load balancing
>section in the manual. Isn't the purpose of load balancing to have a
>second server listed? Why only have one?
There's a difference between web servers and DNS servers. The IP addresses
shown in the example are the authoritative (primary) DNS servers involved
in the ft/lb operation for that domain. You only need one.
You do need multiple *web* servers to make ft/lb meaningful. However, this
is configured in the load balancing record.
>How do I name my secondary?
However you want. I noticed, for example, that the two name server for your
reverse zone are:
ns.inreach.com.
dogbert.inreach.com.
>Quick DNS pro doesn't do admin via tcp/ip does it?
Not at this time.
>So our name server is ns.valueport.com. When I load balance do I change
>primary.valueport.com to ns.valueport.com??
Change it to the name of your primary name server, which is currently
ns.valueport.com. Of course, I've already counseled you to change that to
ns1.valueport.com.
>Do I put secondary data on both machines, or just my secondary?
Just on the secondary.
>Say my primary goes down. what happens to my secondary? How does it pick
>up and hold mail while the primary comes back up? Do I have to set up
>mirror accounts or something, or does it just automatically forward the
>data at some point?
The secondary DNS server will continue to serve out your DNS data. 3 hours
after its last check, it will again try to check your primary to see if
there's a more recent version of your domain. If the primary is down, it
will retry 2 hours later. If, after 7 days, it still can't contact your
primary, it will stop serving out valueport.com. (I took these values of 3
hours, 2 hours, and 7 days from your domain information; they are
completely configurable.)
>Should there be a ptr record for each one of our domains? It says that,
>but there aren't. I used the domain assistant to set up all my stuff, and
>only recently has it started putting in PTR records.
You don't have authority for your reverse (PTR) records. If you want that,
you'll need to talk to your service provider.
>What are all these two arpa records?
You mean "in-addr.arpa"? That's the format of a reverse zone name. For
instance, the PTR record for 209.209.9.59 might look like this:
59.9.209.209.in-addr.arpa. PTR valueport.com.
There should be no more than one PTR record for any given IP address.
Reverse records go in their own zone file.
>examples of actual records would be great.
Is the above sufficient?
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