dynamic update transfers to slave servers

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On Monday 13 June 2005 15:02, Trey Nolen wrote:
> I am working on implementing a new dynamic DNS service for our
> company. This is not tied into DHCP, but rather a service like no-ip,
> mydns, changeip, etc.   My dynamic updates work fine on the server,
> but are not getting passwed to our slave servers in a timely manner. 
> I have looked through the archives and have seen a lot of these
> issues, but nothing seems to fit exactly what we are doing.  Many
> people in the archives have mentioned 5 minutes as being a normal
> update time for the slaves, and that would be fine with us.  Right
> now, it takes hours.
>
> We are using Bind 8.4.6 on Debian systems. Here are the pertinent

I have a service like this on BIND 9.x. It's a subzone of my main zone, 
and all slaves are listed as NS records, plus one also-notify slave 
here at home.

Updates sometimes take as much as 2 seconds to get to all the slaves, 
when network lag is bad.

I don't know BIND 8, but I can tell you that BIND 9 is good at this.

I would be interested to compare notes on your implementation. Mine's 
powered by a Perl CGI frontend to a shell script which runs 
nsupdate(8). Clients can wget(1) their updates, and the zone data is 
untouched if the IP is the same, so it's used in frequent cron jobs to 
keep track of dynamic IP's.
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