Tuning for lots of SERVFAIL responses
Dave Warren
davew at hireahit.com
Fri Feb 19 01:02:17 UTC 2016
On 2016-02-18 14:06, Mark Andrews wrote:
> For some reason people are afraid to slave internal zones. Back
> when I was working for CSIRO I used to slave all the internal zones
> for all of the sites the division had. Each site administered its
> own zones but all sites slaved all of them. That way local and
> inter site lookups always succeeded even when the external links
> were down.
While I avidly prefer slaving internal zones, it becomes one more thing
to maintain, monitor and support, and for every failure point they
eliminate, the zone transfers themselves become a failure point and
maintenance task.
I've had issues with Microsoft DNS in particular (when fully integrated
with Active Directory) periodically losing the list of IPs allowed to
request zone transfers, although I think it was Server 2008 (pre R2)
when this last happened. Similarly, if you frequently add and remove
zones, you've now created an extra task to add the zone to all internal
resolvers, rather than just using NS records and letting DNS do what it
does best and recursively resolve. This too can be automated, obviously.
The tipping point for me is that by slaving my internal zones, I can
effectively do instant DNS updates during normal operations rather than
having internal resolvers maintain their own cache -- This alone makes
it worthwhile to slave all of my zones everywhere possible.
Still, if you're not big enough to automate everything, I can see the
advantage in having your resolvers be as ignorant about internal
infrastructure as possible.
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Dave Warren
http://www.hireahit.com/
http://ca.linkedin.com/in/davejwarren
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