Fwd: DNS in place of rsync - BitFolk Users

26 Jul 2010

Courtesy forward for Stuart

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Stuart C &lt;stuart.criddle(a)gmail.com&gt;
Date: 26 July 2010 22:01
Subject: Re: [bitfolk] DNS in place of rsync
To: James Gregory &lt;jgxenite(a)gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Corliss &lt;michaeljcorliss(a)gmail.com&gt;

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

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On 26 Jul 2010, at 21:51, James Gregory &lt;jgxenite(a)gmail.com&gt; 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 &lt;michaeljcorliss(a)gmail.com&gt;
 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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