I have a problem where the primary DNS information for a domain is on a Netware 6 server. The secondary is hosted by an ISP. When I look at the SOA information on the ISP, the serial number is always 0, the refresh is always the number that the matches the serial, the retry is the refresh number and so forth. Has anybody seen this? I've done this type of thing a couple times in the past and have searched here and other places and can't seem to find that anybody else has seen this....anybody have any ideas?
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Just wondering, why is an ISP hosting your secondary DNS server? I don't see the reason you would want to expose all of your DNS information to the public by having it hosted at an ISP secondary DNS server. Not being critical, but interested in the design reasons. For DNS redundancy, you can setup multiple DNS servers in your network - all set as primary and authorative. The actual DNS records are maintained in NDS and don't need to use the primary secondary flat database scheme native to DNS. You can configure your DNS to refer requests for records you don't maintain to the ISP DNS servers - in the Forwarding List tab of the DNS server object. That way your DNS servers don't have to talk to the Root servers for resolving addresses your IPS's DNS servers probably have. The ISP DNS server will normally contain records resolving your public web and mail services to IP addresses you manage.
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Nope, haven't seen this one before. If you export your zone, does the export file look like a standard BIND formatted file with all the fields in the right places? bd NSC Volunteer SysOp www.InsightNetSolutions.net
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