Adding Subdomain

Danny Mayer mayer at gis.net
Fri Nov 10 02:37:32 UTC 2000


		Yes.  But where are you located?  Sometimes these problems require
  a site visit in case it can't be resolved remotely.

			Danny

At 10:01 PM 11/9/00 +0000, Jaime wrote:
>Does anyone provide consultancy on DNS problems?
>
>Jaime
>
>"Kevin Darcy" <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> wrote in message
>news:39FF5A5D.3DD3C528 at daimlerchrysler.com...
>>
>> Don Robertson wrote:
>>
>> > We run a server with 92,000 domains. They are all in a single file.
>>
>> Um, okay. But I suspect Farnaz is looking to add 1,000 *zones*. I could be
>> wrong. But if my suspicion is correct, then this would be a very different
>> configuration than yours.
>>
>> > We are using BIND 8.2. If I remember correctly
>>
>> If you really mean BIND 8.2, as opposed to, say, BIND 8.2.2-p5, then you
>have
>> a version with a root exploit and should upgrade *immediately*. See
>> http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/bind-security-19991108.html for details.
>> Farnaz, you should be upgrading too; BIND 8.1.2 has some Denial of Service
>> vulnerabilities in it.
>>
>> As for "Do you think the server might be in trouble?": maybe, maybe not.
>> DNS capacity planning involves many factors. Did you mean just
>"subdomains",
>> or actually "subzones"? Will these zones be large? Will they change
>> frequently? How many slaves do you have and how much of a
>change-propagation
>> delay can you tolerate? Do you plan to (re-)implement your maintenance
>> processes to use Dynamic Update (thus not requiring the whole zone to be
>> reloaded just because one record changed)? IXFR (Incremental Zone
>Transfer,
>> so that you don't need to replicate the whole zone to the slaves)? What
>are
>> your standard refresh and default TTL values? Do you plan to provide only
>> non-recursive (domain hosting) service, or is this machine also expected
>to
>> resolve names in other domains (e.g. Internet names) for local clients?
>What
>> is your expected query volume? What hardware/OS platform does this run on?
>> What is your network bandwidth/throughput?
>>
>>
>> - Kevin
>>
>> > > -----Original Message-----
>> > > From: Farnaz Mosavati [mailto:fmos at iss.ca]
>> > > Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 6:11 PM
>> > > To: bind-users at isc.org
>> > > Subject: Adding Subdomain
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Does anybody have the experience of adding about 1000 subdomains ?
>> > > Do you think the server might be in trouble?
>> > >
>> > > Its version is 8.1.2
>> > >
>> > > Any suggestion, explanation is appreciated.
>> > > Farnaz
>> > >
>> > >
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