Re: DNS Server Setup?
I believe the secondaries can take over as master if the master is down. Thus he is setting up a secondary.
The first thing I would do is find out why the two computers you have now "freeze up". Is there a certain job that bogs the system down? A sync? I would watch the logs, because two DNS servers should be more than enough for most corporations, ISPs, etc.
As far as setting one up...I wish I knew myself. I haven't tried yet.
> as far as i know, thats just not how it works. every dns asks above
> itself for those that it's not resposeable for, and usually keeps the info
> as soon as it knows another one though.
>
> anyone know how to setup your own stand alone dns server? like the ones
> that most isps seem to have that take time for the info to filter down
> from the root servers?
>
> --
> Forrest English
> http://truffula.net
>
> "When we have nothing left to give
> There will be no reason for us to live
> But when we have nothing left to lose
> You will have nothing left to use"
> -Fugazi
>
> On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Debian Gonzalez wrote:
>
> >
> > Maybe I'm mistaken ... but my understanding was that
> > my DNS server would just pull information from the
> > "Root Servers" or something.
> >
> > You see, currently, I have two DNS servers that
> > resolve our requests and such. They're pretty fast
> > and everything except that about three times per day
> > they freeze up for about two-five minutes. During
> > that time, no one in my office can look at websites
> > properly.
> >
> > I don't want to be in a position where the big DNS
> > servers are down and someone looks up a brand-new
> > non-cached site from my little DNS server. Since my
> > little one doesn't know where the new site is ... it'd
> > have to refer to the big ones ... which would both me
> > down.
> >
> > Does this make any sense?
> >
> > -Christian
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --- Forrest English <forrest@truffula.net> wrote:
> > > you need to setup some other dns servers for yours
> > > to reffer to if they
> > > don't have the info. what you want to do is called
> > > a cahching dns server
> > > for a reason. it keeps places already visited in a
> > > local cache. but,
> > > you don't have a record of all of the sites on the
> > > entire internet right
> > > away.
> > >
> > > so, follow the howto as best as you can. but, at
> > > the very least.... add
> > > some other dns's that you reffer to. it's in um...
> > > named.conf or
> > > somthing like that in /etc/bind
> > >
> > > --
> > > Forrest English
> > > http://truffula.net
> > >
> > > "When we have nothing left to give
> > > There will be no reason for us to live
> > > But when we have nothing left to lose
> > > You will have nothing left to use"
> > > -Fugazi
> > >
> > > On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Sebastiaan wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I found an easy document on the homepage of
> > > RedHat. Search there for
> > > > it. If you want to take a look at my files (which
> > > still do not work
> > > > perfectly for every computer on the world), mail
> > > me privately. It is
> > > > really simple to set up a simple server.
> > > >
> > > > Greetzm
> > > > Sebastiaan
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Debian Gonzalez wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Hello everybody ... I want to set up a DNS
> > > server for
> > > > > users in my office. I've looked at all the
> > > HOWTOs out
> > > > > there and I couldn't make sense of them. Let me
> > > > > explain what I want to set up.
> > > > >
> > > > > You know like in Windows (or /etc/resolv.conf
> > > for us)
> > > > > when you specify a "Primary DNS Server" ... like
> > > so
> > > > > that when you type in www.yahoo.com the proper
> > > page
> > > > > comes up? I want to set up one of those types
> > > of
> > > > > machines. I believe such a server is called a
> > > > > "resolver" or a "resolving and caching server"
> > > or
> > > > > something ... please correct me if I'm wrong,
> > > please.
> > > > >
> > > > > So, I used dselect to install bind and bind-doc
> > > and
> > > > > stuff ... that was with Progeny. It didn't work
> > > and I
> > > > > was tired of the way the machine was working so
> > > I just
> > > > > set up Potato and had it set up the machine as a
> > > "DNS
> > > > > Server" (a setup option).
> > > > >
> > > > > "ps -le | more" (also "ps -le | grep named")
> > > show me
> > > > > that named is up and running.
> > > > >
> > > > > If I put 127.0.0.1 alone in my /etc/resolv.conf,
> > > lynx
> > > > > will not be able to go to http://www.google.com
> > > (with
> > > > > a known, working DNS server it works just fine,
> > > though
> > > > > ... I know this machine can get on a network and
> > > > > everything). Also, when I specify the IP of this
> > > > > machine (192.168.10.249) as my "Primary DNS
> > > Server" in
> > > > > Win2k, it won't go to any webpages either.
> > > > >
> > > > > Now, I know, this is a right-out-of-the-box
> > > setup of
> > > > > bind, but I can't figure out what I need to
> > > configure.
> > > > > Like what files do I need to configure to make
> > > this
> > > > > work? Maybe the root servers or something in
> > > db.root
> > > > > are out of date? I have no idea and it's gotten
> > > > > pretty frustrating after a week or so.
> > > > >
> > > > > Any help would be appreciated, folks. Thanks!
> > > > >
> > > > > Please CC to christian@wnrg.com
> > > > >
> > > > > -Christian
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
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