DNS Issue

[apervizi]

Scenario: We have a total of 9 buildings. 8 of them are schools (K-8). One of them is the main building that connects all buildings to the internet (each school is connected through a T1 line to the main building). Only 1 building is responsible for DNS (main building).

Equipment Used: Each building is running XSERVE G4 and planning to deploy Panther(10.3)

Our Problem: We are experiencing very slow login’s and network connections.

Proposed Solution: We think that if we are able to set up a DNS in each of the 8 buildings that we can optimize our connection.

Query: How would we go and accomplish this task? (Do we set DNS up as a slave? forwarder?) Are there any side effects for having DNS in each of the 8 buildings.

Thanks

[Zeheeba]

Hey There. If your problem with slow logins etc is indeed caused by serious lag in receiving DNS query responses, then placing slaves in each of the buildings could help.

Regardless, depending on the number of users you have hitting this dns server, slaves would be a great idea. Just make the Existing server the master, and if your G4’s at the branch locations are not already overburdoned, make them slave servers.. The master will automatically update the slaves when changes are made.

Of course implementing this isn’t quite as easy typing that last paragraph, but if you have a basic sense of how bind works, you should be fine.

I dont’ see any problems that could arrise from this. Good luck!

Regards,
Z

PS- I’ve done this a bunch of times, if you have questions or problems, give me a hollar.

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