making queries - while restarting bind - possible ?

[Michael Kjorling]

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On Jul 2 2001 15:30 +0200, michab wrote:

> >    First off, the registrar should not be requiring any one server
> >be up 100% of the time.  Not even they can meet that requirement.
> >Moreover, not even the root nameservers nor the gTLD or ccTLD
> >nameservers can meet that requirement -- why do you think we have
> >thirteen of them?!?
>
> yes okay okay... that´s all right...  but let´s keep this out of mind...
> we have a system working here, that would be perfect, if the NS(primary)
> would be UP 100%... anyway how many secondaries there are...
> please notice...  the destination in *NOT* keeping a zone alive....
> for any queries...
>
> the destination is *ONLY* (sorry, for me in this case) keeping the primary
> NS alive for queries, doesn´t matter how many secondaries there are...
>
> i know this sounds a little bit strange but in my eyes this is a very
> important question. the system of DNS is not construed for only one NS,
> but this is not the qeustion here.. sorry ;-))

What if there is a critical system failure and the machine has to be
rebooted? If it does that automatically, you won't even know until
it's too late. If it doesn't, you can have your service cut for a long
time before anyone notices.

I understand your problem as that you have a stealth master, and
slaves pulling zone data off of that one. Only that this stealth
master seems to be a publicly accessible and used machine. Just let me
ask - you mentioned NIC-DE a few posts back. That would seem to imply
to me that you are up to running the .de zone/ccTLD. Then why do you
need 55,000 zones??

I just don't understand the issue here... nor do I think many others
do.


Michael Kjörling

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