26 Jul
2010
26 Jul
'10
9:08 p.m.
Courtesy forward for Stuart
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From: Stuart C <stuart.criddle(a)gmail.com>
Date: 26 July 2010 22:01
Subject: Re: [bitfolk] DNS in place of rsync
To: James Gregory <jgxenite(a)gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Corliss <michaeljcorliss(a)gmail.com>
I would have thought the reverse was more likely, where the big ISP
server provides the DNS to the world on your behalf, but that you
control the content from a local file.
This is often done for performance and resilience reasons, frequently
an ISP will have multiple world visible secondary servers that all
pick up the master zone record from your local primary server.
If this is the case, then installing BIND and pointing it at your
existing zone file should get you 90% of the way there
Cheers
Stuart
Sent from my iPhone
On 26 Jul 2010, at 21:51, James Gregory <jgxenite(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Michael,
I presume by this you mean that Bitfolk host your DNS, but that you
hold the zone file for the DNS. In this case, you need a secondary DNS
server that will host the zone information, but allow the Bitfolk DNS
servers to replicate from.
If that's correct, and you need more help, feel free to give me a
shout!
James
On 26 July 2010 21:42, Michael Corliss <michaeljcorliss(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hello all,
I'm new to VPS admin, and even more so to DNS, so I apologize in
advance if
my questions are naive.
I currently have a Bitfolk VPS that rsyncs a zone file to Bitfolk's
name
servers. Migrating to a new VPS running Ubuntu 10.04, I understand
that
rsyncing is being discouraged in favor of setting up a DNS server
of my own.
I'm under the impression that setting up a DNS server will
similarly carry
the information in the zone file to Bitfolks servers, but I'm
unfamiliar
with how this process works. I've look at the Ubuntu documentation
for
bind9, but I'm not sure if I need a caching server, a DNS primary,
or a DNS
secondary.
Can anyone who's done this give me some pointers?
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