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Re: binding 2 IPs to a name server

From: Men & Mice Support
Date: Sunday, December 10, 2000
Time: 11:57:59 pm

Yes, they do. This hasn't changed.
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Chris Buxton Men & Mice
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At 8:44 PM -0800 12/10/00, Caio James wrote:
>I realize that this thread is really old, but I was just curious to ask if
>these same "routing issues" occur with qdns 3?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Caio
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> > From: Men & Mice Support <cbuxton@menandmice.com>
> > Reply-To: "QuickDNS Talk" <quickdns-talk@lists.menandmice.com>
> > Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 09:34:37 -0700
> > To: "QuickDNS Talk" <quickdns-talk@lists.menandmice.com>
> > Subject: Re: binding 2 IPs to a name server
> >
> > At 4:39 PM +0200 9/19/00, Matthias Gruber wrote:
> >> hello,
> >> i think they are using some dig based script for testing correct
> >> zone entries. it fails completely with nameserver not
> >> reachable/timeout. i tested it by myself with dig and nslookup with
> >> same results (i have the log-files no longer at hand, but i sent it
> >> to man&mice support in february). whenever a qdns server has
> >> secondary ip addresses, the unix tools, at least dig stoped
> >> working. btw. dns expert (running on our macs) showed no error and
> >> could always talk to the qdns server.
> >
> > Yes, I remember seeing your request for support.
> >
> > dig is more sensitive to the source IP address of the response than
> > most resolvers - as the man page says, dig is funky and weird, but
> > nobody's bothered to rewrite it since it mostly gets the job done,
> > and is able to turn up problems that other software misses.
> >
> > Basically, with Mac OS 9's routing tricks, all of QuickDNS' responses
> > come from a single IP address, no matter how many IP addresses it
> > effectively listens on. dig therefore ignores the response if the
> > request was sent to some other IP address of the server.
> > ____________________________________________________________________
> > Chris Buxton Men & Mice
> > cbuxton@menandmice.com We Make DNS Easy!
> >
> >>> At 11:17 AM +0200 9/19/00, Matthias Gruber wrote:
> >>>> hello,
> >>>>
> >>>> i havent seen that mail before writing to the list, sorry. it covers
> >>>> the problem.
> >>>>
> >>>> a thing to add: one might get qdns working with macos 9 for clients,
> >>>> _but_ the german domain registries tests fail!
> >>>
> >>> Do you happen to know what error they find?
> >>>
> >>>> therfore if you are
> >>>> an isp, you could not connect domains (or even update them). it
> >>>> leads us to use qdns for internal purposes (hidden primary) and a
> >>>> bind for external use (public primary).
> >>>>
> >>>> does "coming soon" means this year? (i will happily switch our dns
> >>>> system immediately).
> >>>
> >>> Yes, we plan to ship 3.0 this year.
> >>>
> >>>> btw. will there be a remote management tool with the new version?
> >>>> perhaps something http based;-))
> >>>
> >>> Yes, there will be remote admin. HTTP would be far too limiting,
> >>> though - we're pretty sure you'll like it when you see it. :-)
> >>> ____________________________________________________________________
> >>> Chris Buxton Men & Mice
> >>> cbuxton@menandmice.com We Make DNS Easy!
> >
> >
> >




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