From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 26 2:46:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns2.wananchi.com (mail.wananchi.com [62.8.64.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B86437B409 for ; Sun, 26 Aug 2001 02:46:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wash@wananchi.com) Received: from wash by ns2.wananchi.com with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15awUp-000ATG-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 26 Aug 2001 12:46:23 +0300 Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 12:46:23 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Secondary DNS Transfers Message-ID: <20010826124623.B75265@ns2.wananchi.com> Mail-Followup-To: Odhiambo Washington , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <5.1.0.14.0.20010824185811.06796d88@mail.Go2France.com> <5.1.0.14.0.20010825143818.037e8cd8@mail.Go2France.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="8GpibOaaTibBMecb" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20010825143818.037e8cd8@mail.Go2France.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i X-Disclaimer: My opinions do not necessarily represent those of my employer. X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386 X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Designation: Systems Administrator, Wananchi Online Ltd. X-Location: Nairobi, KE, East Africa. X-Uptime: 12:44PM up 3 days, 16:51, 3 users, load averages: 1.01, 1.03, 1.07 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --8GpibOaaTibBMecb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * Len Conrad [20010825 15:49]: writing on the subje= ct 'RE: Secondary DNS Transfers' |=20 | >This won't guarentee that the zone actually was loaded by the secondary, | >just that it transferred to it. |=20 | Ted, you disappoint me. :))) |=20 | When the slave transfers the zone file, AND loads it (I=B4ve never heard = of=20 | the two operations NOT occurring in conjunction, have you?), named will l= og=20 | the name of the zone and the new serial number as it loads into=20 | authoritative memory. Can=B4t get much better guarantee than that. |=20 | >The very best way to test that the secondary is in operation WITHOUT | >calling the admin is to simply shut down the primary namserver for a=20 | >couple of days. |=20 | you=B4re having a bad day, Ted!! :)) |=20 | After looking in the slave=B4s named.run log file to confirm the zone has= =20 | transferred and loaded, doubting Thomases can do this: |=20 | dig @slave.dns zone.in.question SOA |=20 | and see immediately if the SOA s/n is same as on the master. Using the= =20 | "readable" ccyymmddxx format for the serial number facilitates checking. ^^^^^^^^^^ What is the cc in this case. I must have missed that in the book. My serial numbers are of the format yymmddxx only ;-) And to get more into this mix, I found this in my logs: 26-Aug-2001 12:32:38.622 MAXQUERIES exceeded, possible data loop in resolving (www.symantec.com) What the heck is MAXQUERIES and why is it being exceeded? Thank you gurus!! -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington Wananchi Online Ltd., wash@wananchi.com 1st Flr Loita Hse. Tel: 254 2 313985 Loita Street., Fax: 254 2 313922 PO Box 10286,00100-NAIROBI,KE. Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something= =20 else is more important than fear.=20 -Ambrose Redmoon=20 --8GpibOaaTibBMecb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7iMVun7LIsuxjem8RAl7UAJ4pOUfYAF/0ZA7u5leMy+fFGvjeTgCff8u9 Kh1dOcYfg0ZxXn1r7RVUKG0= =skps -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --8GpibOaaTibBMecb-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message