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Re: using nsupdate to add a new zone?



Worked nicely, thankyou :)

On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 09:31:47AM -0400, Bulent Murtezaoglu wrote:
> 
> I don't understand why you need this to happen every 5 minutes.
> If it is delegations are from the root servers, they are only updated
> twice daily.  Sure you can update the zone files right after the
> registration, but nobody except people who use your name servers for
> recursive lookups will get that info.
> 
> If the problem is more one of pleasing the customer than doing the
> technically sufficient thing, I suggest the following:
> 
> Separate the authoritative servers (A) from the ones the customers use
> for recursive lookups (R).
> 
> Add the _new registrations_ to the R servers and update R's every five
> minutes.  The customers who use the R servers will get the 'right'
> answers and be happy.
> 
> Twice a day, yank that day's batch of new zones from the R servers and
> move them to A servers.  
> 
> This way R servers get updated often but with 100-500 zone files, the
> A servers get updated just in time. 
> 
> If the customers grab the DNS IP's via PPP, you can change the numbers
> very easily.  
> 
> Would this work, or am I misunderstaning the problem?
> 
> cheers,
> 
> BM   
> 
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> 
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