serverbeach nameservers

[dubiousmike]

how often will they poll my server if they are set as a slave.

I think I saw that it is once every 24 hours. Anyone know what time specifically?

I assume that by entering a domain name in the serverbeach dns with SB as a slave, I am asking SB DNS to request info about that particular domain everytime it comes around time to do so?

I have a particular client that needs his site up asap and I can't get SB to get the DNS specifics from my box.

Should I tell SB to be the master? Then change it out once SB and I have synched DNS records back to SB being the slave? I have heard that by entering info into SB with them as the master, the info gets updated within 15 minutes. All of my domains are pointing toward the SB nameservers.

I just wanted to keep control of the DNS specifics within my WHM (Cpanel).

Mike Dube

[knightfoo]

If you add your zones to the DNS Tool as slave zones and have the proper NS records configured in your domain, then the nameservers update information as soon as you reload the zones on your server. The master nameserver (your server) will send a NOTIFY to each nameserver listed in the NS records for each zone, letting them know to transfer the zone. The slaves will then transfer the zone immediately. If the slaves do not receive a NOTIFY after a certain amount of time (defined in the SOA on the master) then they will request a zone transfer anyway, just to make sure they have current information.

-knightfoo

[knightfoo]

I almost forgot this important point .. you *must* add the NS records for ns1.geodns.net and ns2.geodns.net to your master zone before you configure the domain in the DNS Tool. If you add the zone to the DNS Tool first, the GeoDNS nameservers will attempt to transfer the zone and one of two things wll happen:

1) They get the zone and see that their own names are not listed, and drop the zone
2) The master nameserver refuses the transfer because it does not know that the GeoDNS nameservers are allowed to transfer

If you have already added the domain to the DNS Tool before the NS records were added, just remove it and add it again. Make sure that there is an NS record for ns1.geodns.net and ns2.geodns.net in each zone that should be slaved.

-knightfoo