multihomed name servers, need verification/help...
Demian Hanks
demian at csbs.utah.edu
Sun May 28 17:14:34 UTC 2000
There
and i wanted to verify that I understand the correct way to
do this for a multihomed name server.
(http://www.isc.org/ml-archives/bind-users/2000/01/msg00660.html)
I have 2 name servers ns1 & ns2, and this is what the zone files look like:
db.mydomain:
IN NS ns1.mydomain.com.
IN NS ns2.mydomain.com.
ns1 IN A 10.1.1.10
IN A 10.1.1.11
ns10 IN A 10.1.1.10
ns11 IN A 10.1.1.11
ns2 IN A 10.1.1.20
IN A 10.1.1.21
ns20 IN A 10.1.1.20
ns21 IN A 10.1.1.21
1.1.10.in-addr.arpa.:
IN NS ns1.mydomain.com.
IN NS ns2.mydomain.com.
10 IN PTR ns1.mydomain.com.
11 IN PTR ns1.mydomain.com.
20 IN PTR ns2.mydomain.com.
21 IN PTR ns2.mydoamin.com.
If i understand this right, a lookup of ns1.mydomain.com will return
10.1.1.10 & 10.1.1.11
while a lookup of .10 or .11 will return ns1.mydomain.com.
I can't see any future issues with this, but then again I only deal with
dns once in a while.
I know that multiple PTRs is not recommended, but isn't this the best
way to deal w/ hosts multihomed to the same subnet?
The hosts are multihomed to the same network for redundancy, I am aware
that this leaves an availability issue for this network, but that is addressed
with HSRP on the router. Also, I am using the ns10 & ns11 addresses, just to
resolve to each interface.
Thanks in advance for your help,
Demian
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