Gandi Bar - New Gandi DNS - Comments

New Gandi DNS - Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 06:00:34 +0100

Hi Sean: No, we do not have such plans; In order for that to occur one would need admin privileges with the nameserver, but that would present too great a security problem.

Likewise, in order to use our secondary nameserver, you would need admin rights to the primary, because you would need to update it so as to include the secondary nameserver in the zone.

New Gandi DNS - Sean D. Sollé

Sean D. Sollé — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:35:06 +0100

Ah, excellent, thank you!

Do you have any plans to allow other nameservers to slave from yours?

Cheers,

Sean.

New Gandi DNS - Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 08:12:17 +0100

Hi Sean,

Our old system did not allow that either...It is not possible to mix Gandi's DNS with those of your web host, if Gandi's DNS are not primary.

We DO provide a secondary nameserver though: ns6.gandi.net. You could, therefore have the following setup:

primary: ns7.zoneedit.com
secondary: ns6.gandi.net
DNS3: ns8.zoneedit.com

Hope this helps!

New Gandi DNS - Sean D. Sollé

Sean D. Sollé — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 02:10:00 +0100

Hi Ryan -

Earlier today, when I was adding a non-Gandi nameserver to handle the outage, the control panel returned an error message on a pink background saying nameservers must be Gandi's.

After reading your message I tried to reproduce the error, but can't I wish I'd taken a screenshot!

However, it does seem that if Gandi's nameservers are not primary and secondary, then they return no results, which mean's it's not possible to have a configuration like this:

primary: ns7.zoneedit.com
secondary: a.gandi.net
DNS3: ns8.zoneedit.com
DNS4: b.gandi.net

When I try this configuration, a.gandi.net stops serving DNS for my domain. Your old system didn't do this, did it?

Cheers,

Sean.

New Gandi DNS - Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 22:04:52 +0100

Hi Sean, welcome to the bar!

I'm not sure I follow you there in your question...

Gandi's new DNS system lets you use whatever registered DNS you want to use for your domain - you can just specify what you want:

Example -> http://www.gandi.net/faq/tutorial/6...

Perhaps you can tell me more about what it is that you have in mind, in case I misunderstood your question?

New Gandi DNS - Sean D. Sollé

Sean D. Sollé — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:14:10 +0100

Why does the new DNS system only allow Gandi DNS servers for primary & secondary? Surely it's the decision of the owner, not the registrar, which DNS servers to use?

Today's failure highlights this issue, surely?

New Gandi DNS - Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:41:16 +0100

Hi Mickaël,

Indeed, one of our customers has experienced an abnormally huge surge of requests on his domain, and because of special circumstances, this has caused the DNS trouble you have observed...

We have identified the problem and are in the process of putting in place a solution so that all returns to normal ASAP, if it is not already so.

New Gandi DNS - Mickaël Rémond

Mickaël Rémond — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:34:50 +0100

Is there any trouble with those DNS currently ?
It seems that our domain has lot of troubles being resolved since yesterday.