Search Again: Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS From: Len Conrad Date: Monday, December 29, 2003 Time: 2:06:31 pm >No, not true at all. Yes, it's very definitely true as "best practice" in general. dynamic updates and NOTIFY work better or even at all following this best practice. >Think of the case of a hidden master server. Stealth masters are not general usage, and one assumes that anybody setting up a stealth master, would know what he's doing when diverging from best practice. And even with a stealth master, one of the public NS slaves can be the can be the "primary slave" (and therefore in the mname field) slaved to the stealth master, and to which the other NSs are slaved, further reducing the traffic with and obscuring the stealth master. >Len, can you provide an example scenario that matches what Bill has done? no, but I've seen problems described in the bind-users list, so check those archives. I'm really conservative in my DNS setups, and when I fix other peoples' DNS, so I don't have these subtle problems in my experience. >- A given server is mentioned twice, by different names, in the delegation >records. To encourage redundancy in DNS, registrars used to prevent registering more than hostname for the same IP. That's still good practice, for the same reasons. It's obviously not fatal to register at the parent NS two hosts for the same IP. But I don't consider registering, eg, "vanity" hostnames as best practice. >One of these names is not used in the authority records. > >- Another server is listed in the authority records authority records (the onse that delegate authority), imo, ARE the delegation records. Do you mean the zone NS records? >but not the delegation records. DNS is confusing and mysterious enough for most people that being tricky or whatever is really not a good idea. Len

Messages In This Thread: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by System Administrator on Dec 18, 2003 at 10:40:03 am Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by Ron Smith on Dec 19, 2003 at 1:31:15 am Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by System Administrator on Dec 19, 2003 at 4:24:01 am Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by mattb on Dec 19, 2003 at 10:31:50 am Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by Mia''s Virtual Post Office on Dec 22, 2003 at 10:05:05 am Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by Len Conrad on Dec 22, 2003 at 10:38:43 am Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by Michael Wise on Dec 22, 2003 at 11:21:16 am Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by Len Conrad on Dec 22, 2003 at 5:26:48 pm Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by Michael Wise on Dec 22, 2003 at 6:08:36 pm Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by billc_lists@greenbuilder.com on Dec 22, 2003 at 11:20:20 pm Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by Michael Wise on Dec 23, 2003 at 8:59:19 am Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by Len Conrad on Dec 23, 2003 at 12:01:08 pm Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by Michael Wise on Dec 23, 2003 at 4:43:54 pm Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by billc_lists@greenbuilder.com on Dec 27, 2003 at 12:07:21 am Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by Len Conrad on Dec 27, 2003 at 5:57:53 am Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by Men & Mice Support on Dec 29, 2003 at 12:41:13 pm Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by Len Conrad on Dec 29, 2003 at 2:06:31 pm Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by Men & Mice Support on Dec 29, 2003 at 2:29:57 pm Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by Len Conrad on Dec 29, 2003 at 2:41:06 pm Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by Men & Mice Support on Dec 29, 2003 at 3:15:46 pm Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by Len Conrad on Dec 29, 2003 at 6:49:52 pm Re: Panther, shared internet, and QDNS by billc_lists@greenbuilder.com on Dec 29, 2003 at 10:51:25 pm