List my domains

Nate Campi nate at wired.com
Thu Feb 21 22:21:12 UTC 2002


On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 01:42:11PM -0800, Tom Robinson wrote:
> > ... a customer of mine changes his own domain record so
> > that DNS service is provided by another ISP.  But he never mentions
> > this to me.  I leave him in my named.conf.
> 
> On the other hand, if you run just one set of name servers, other customers
> who use them as the name servers for their resolvers will get stale data.

Right - very real risk.

> I like Barry Margolin's suggestion - periodically check with root servers to
> make sure they still report you as authoritative.

This should be a script run from cron - ensuring that it gets done and
making sure you don't miss any. If all your zones are served from the
gTLD's, the script would be very simple indeed.
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