forwarding to a child zone is different!!

[Kevin Darcy]

I don't think we should get too dogmatic about this separation. The choice of
whether a particular zone should be served authoritatively or not on a given
nameserver is often influenced by a variety of factors. All my plant
DNS servers, for instance, are slaves for all of the chrysler.com zones, for
purposes of redundancy, performance, etc. but not for most of the
daimlerchrysler.com, cfc.com, mbcc.com zones, etc., because those are
infrequently accessed from the plants, if at all. The few queries I get in
those zones on those servers isn't worth incurring the zone-transfer
overhead. So am I "clueless" because I'm effectively mixing authoritative
with non-authoritative data, recursing some of the time but not always? I
don't think so (obviously). I'm just tuning my nameservers to my local usage
patterns.


- Kevin
Brad Knowles wrote:

> At 3:23 PM -0700 4/24/01, Andreas Gustafsson wrote:
>
> >  The situation would be clearer if everyone followed the recommendation
> >  of having separate authoritative and recursive/caching servers
>
>         You know, I've been recommending this kind of configuration for
> many years now, and IIRC, I even suggested that this be included in
> 2nd Ed. of _DNS & BIND_ (although I don't think it ever made it).
>
>         I'm starting to wonder if maybe it actually does make more sense
> to have the software insist that it work in *EITHER*
> authoritative/non-recursive/non-caching *OR*
> non-authoritative/recursive/caching-only modes *BUT* *NOT* *BOTH*
> unless you've actually read the documentation and found the option
> you need to use to force this mode of operation.
>
>         Sigh....  So many clue-resistant people, such short
> clue-by-fours, and so little time to use them....
>
> --
> Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>
>
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