Help with Cisco Distributed Director and DNS subdomain
Barry Margolin
barmar at bbnplanet.com
Fri Oct 15 14:47:38 UTC 1999
In article <199910150417.AAA06300 at fw1-a.osis.gov>,
Joseph S D Yao <jsdy at cospo.osis.gov> wrote:
>No experience, but ... why don't you just try following the
>instructions? No zone transfers needed. Just put the above lines into
>your "my.domain.com" zone file. Every time someone wants the address
>for http-proxy, they find that they have to ask the DD which - if it is
>properly configured - will distribute the load in that manner. And I
>am sure the TTL of the names is QUITE low. ;-)
I do have experience, and everything Joe said is correct.
In fact, in my experience, the TTL of the names is *too* low. The default
is 0, to prevent any caching. But some nameservers seem to have a problem
with 0 TTL's (some ancient versions of BIND, as well as some current
non-BIND servers (miraculously, I don't think MS DNS suffers from this)).
I recommend configuring the DD to use TTL something like 10 seconds or 1
minute. There isn't really much point to going lower than this, since the
DD only recalculates its tables once a minute by default, most internet
topology doesn't change that often, and many client applications do their
own caching that may last even longer (I think Netscape defaults to 5
minutes).
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