Authority gone from slaves

[Barry Margolin]

In article <gdrc7l$1dvv$1 at sf1.isc.org>, Steve Koon <skoon at escapia.com> 
wrote:

> I had my slave server giving out authoritive request and two days ago
> they stopped and I think I know why but wanted confirmation. Two days
> ago we had an issue with one of our client whose zone we moved over form
> the dns hosting company we have been using. Their web servers are
> located at a third party web hosting site and they make a call on one of
> their pages to our API hosted in our web server farm. Our web servers
> domain are still currently hosted at the dns hosted company so when
> calling the API and trying to resolve the images on our servers they
> could not because it was trying to make a recursive call to the domain
> we did not transfer to us yet. To fix this I enabled recursive on the
> slaves until we complete the migration of all the zones to our server
> over the next two weeks.

I don't understand why you needed to do this.  If your server is not 
recursive, why are you pointing to it in your resolver?  Your resolver 
should point to a caching server somewhere.

> 
> Did enabling recursive on the slave make they so that they can not been
> seen as authoritive of any zones they host? Again the slaves were
> responding as Authoritive for the zones they hosted until I enabled
> recursive on them.

Enabling recursion shouldn't have any effect on authoritative zones.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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