Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 17:11:34 -0800 From: Michael Smith <mksmith@adhost.com> To: Erik Norgaard <norgaard@locolomo.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with NAT/RDR in PF Message-ID: <2C799BA1-729E-4990-A80F-1C840AD53D9B@adhost.com> In-Reply-To: <475C7B8A.5000908@locolomo.org> References: <EDA55758-3860-4F24-97B3-1C9C41F04A78@adhost.com> <475C7B8A.5000908@locolomo.org>
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On Dec 9, 2007, at 3:34 PM, Erik Norgaard wrote: > Michael Smith wrote: >> Hello All: >> I am trying to configure a round-robin group of Name Servers that >> respond on to and from a single address. >> I want the following to occur: >> 1) DNS query from 10.211.128.1 to 10.212.1.1 is redirected to a >> pool of name servers >> 2) One of the name servers responds to the query >> 3) The response shows a source address of 10.212.1.1, not the >> actual name server > > I know this does not answer your question, but, what's the point? > DNS isn't exactly the kind of task that knocks over a server. If you > want redundancy, then the correct way to do it is to add NS entries > to your zone files. > > I simply let my register transfer the zone file daily, works fine. > If you need to update the zone file regularly just reduce the max > age of the zone. Hello Erik: Well, aside from doing a *lot* of queries, it's nice to have a single IP address fronting a set of servers so I can pull one out for maintenance at any time and it doesn't affect name resolution for the clients. Mike
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