DNS Manager Slave Zone Support
Testing welcome.
Enjoy!
-Chris
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@caker:
ns1 and ns2.linode.com, or 69.93.127.10 and 65.19.178.10
-Chris This information should definitely be presented in the UI.
This is a really excellent feature for anyone hosting their own DNS. It seems obvious, but it's surprising how rare it is for hosting providers to actually do it. They'd much rather give you a web interface to their DNS system.
Workarounds include flattening your zones into a single zone, or making sure there's NS records for the child zone in the parent zone, since this will allow a recursive lookup to succeed either way.
I'm trying to set up a slave zone but it doesn't seem to be working. I've added an entry in the DNS manager for my zone and after finding this topic I've allowed the two Linode nameservers AXFR access but they still sit there saying "n/a" in the "last generated" column which I assume means the zones aren't active (if I query the zone from ns1.linode.com I get a "refused" error.)
I originally tried importing the zone and the AXFR succeeded, but although this wasn't what I was after it seems to indicate my server is configured correctly.
Are there any problems with the service at the moment? I couldn't find any documentation about it on the wiki, and incidentally the link to the wiki at the bottom of most Linode pages is broken (it redirects to the Linode homepage.)
One other thing - I noticed that when I try to edit the slave zone the list of master servers is blank - I assumed this was a bug in the edit code, but I guess it could also mean the edit code is working and there's a bug in the 'add new zone' code, where it's not saving the server list. Not sure if it's related but I thought I'd mention it just in case.
Any ideas?
@Malvineous:
Hi all,
I'm trying to set up a slave zone but it doesn't seem to be working. I've added an entry in the DNS manager for my zone and after finding this topic I've allowed the two Linode nameservers AXFR access but they still sit there saying "n/a" in the "last generated" column which I assume means the zones aren't active (if I query the zone from ns1.linode.com I get a "refused" error.)
I originally tried importing the zone and the AXFR succeeded, but although this wasn't what I was after it seems to indicate my server is configured correctly.
Are there any problems with the service at the moment? I couldn't find any documentation about it on the wiki, and incidentally the link to the wiki at the bottom of most Linode pages is broken (it redirects to the Linode homepage.)
One other thing - I noticed that when I try to edit the slave zone the list of master servers is blank - I assumed this was a bug in the edit code, but I guess it could also mean the edit code is working and there's a bug in the 'add new zone' code, where it's not saving the server list. Not sure if it's related but I thought I'd mention it just in case.
Any ideas?
I seem to recall having to re-enter my masters in the edit field after creating it in order to get it working. Try re-entering them there?
After that, it does take a while (I think it's either every 15 mins or every half hour) for the server config to be updated. Note that 'last generated' will continue to show n/a, use host -t soa yourdomain ns1.linode.com to see if it's there and up to date.
I'll leave it 15 minutes and see if it works - thanks!
Edit: Yep, after you add the slave zone you need to edit it and re-enter the master IP, then it all works fine.
@Malvineous:
Edit: Yep, after you add the slave zone you need to edit it and re-enter the master IP, then it all works fine.
This has been fixed.
-Chris
dig nabber.org AXFR @ns1.linode.com
When querying the primary server it does not do this:
dig nabber.org AXFR @ns.nabber.org