dns server redundancy
Kevin Darcy
kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Thu Jan 13 20:58:00 UTC 2005
Kris wrote:
>What's the best way to have dns server redundancy? In my case, we have
>issues with running out of recursive queries (we've jacked that limit up to
>10000). From what I've read, it seems my best bet is to add more
>nameservers to the mix. If I set up the zone information for the nameserver
>as so:
>
>
>nameserver 600 IN A 10.0.0.3
>
>nameserver 600 IN A 10.0.0.4
>
>nameserver 600 IN A 10.0.0.5
>
>
>
>does this mean that requests for nameserver will be divided equally among
>the 3 servers listed? Will this, then, help alleviate the issue we're
>having with server failure due to excessive recursive lookups?
>
No, the address that a name resolves to has nothing logically to do
with what nameserver you ask to resolve it. If you want to spread out
the load from a bunch of recursive clients the most straightforward way
to do so is by changing the resolver configurations on those clients.
This isn't so hard if you're using DHCP; in fact, some DHCP products
have a "rotate" option which automatically gives out different
permutations of a given resolver list to different DHCP clients,
specifically for the purpose of spreading out query load.
Another option, I suppose, is to put load-balancer(s) of some sort
between your nameservers and their clients...
- Kevin
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