On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 09:41, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am Fr, den 22.10.2004 schrieb Roy W. Erickson um 18:24: > > > I need to rehost my 6 year old internal DNS servers on newer hardware. > > About how large zones do we talk? 200 machines on two subnets > > > Whats the latest "best practice" for DNS servers these days? > > What do you have in mind saying "best practice"? Can you be more > specific? You need a howto to set them up? Or you need advises on how to > administer a DNS? Is it still primary/secondary or is their some new cluster capability? For example, what is posadis: http://www.posadis.com/ > > > I would like to try a fail-over pair if possible. Does Fedora have > > fail-over capability? > > This is where master and slave DNS come to play. bind9, which ships with > Fedora, supports master / slave setups since ages. When the primary goes down I recall that the clients timeout in a bad way until they fall back to the secondary. Is there a way to avoid that? Or is that what the slave does? > > > Some internal admins want a GUI based DNS. Any such GUI front ends? > > How much experience with DNS do you and the internal admins have with > administering a DNS? Does the data change frequently? I've set up the bind 4.9.4 running in the office now. It's on an SGI O2 according to the O'Reilly DNS book (1st ed ;) Secondary as well. > > > Roy > > Alexander
