Re: DNS

[ksemat at eahd.or.ug]

Thanks Randy for the insight. Actually I am running a hidden secondary for
that zone in order to keep from always having to query dar1.afsat.com for
those records whenever they expire from my cache but you only mentioned a
hidden primary do you recommend that I continue with this policy?
 On Wed, 28 > Jun 2000, Randy Bush wrote: > 
> > Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 12:23:43 -0700
> > From: Randy Bush <randy at psg.com>
> > To: Brian Candler <B.Candler at pobox.com>
> > Cc: ksemat at eahd.or.ug, afnog at afnog.org
> > Subject: Re: DNS
> > 
> > > In _which_ zone file? You should not have _any_ zone file for
> > > 132.129.216.in-addr.arpa (it's delegated to your ISP, not to you)
> > > 
> > > The only exception is if you wish to run a hidden secondary for this zone,
> > > but as I say, I don't recommend this.
> > 
> > actually, a hidden primary is highly recommended in my universe and seems
> > quite applicable here.
> > 
> > the upstream isp, U, 'owns' the space delegated to downstream isp I.  hence
> > U does not wish to tell the next servers up, 129.216.in-addr.arpa in this
> > case, to delegate directly to I around the upstream U.
> > 
> > on the other hand, the upstream U does not want the day to day maintenance
> > pain of maintaining the content of I's zone file.
> > 
> > so the best hack is for I to have a hidden primary which U shadows while
> > appearing to be the primary and maintaining control, while I controls the
> > data content as long as they are a customer of the space owner U.
> > 
> > randy 
> > 
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> Sematimba Noah
> Network Administrator
> Uganda Online
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Sematimba Noah
Network Administrator
Uganda Online
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