New Gandi DNS
By Arti on Wednesday 10 January 2007, 11:39 - Gandi - Permalink
To improve our service and prepare our platform for future developments, here are the major changes that have been made to our DNS:
- the new addresses for our new servers are: a.dns.gandi.net, b.dns.gandi.net, c.dns.gandi.net,
- the 3 servers are distributed over three different locations for greater security.
- update from Bind8 to Bind9 (Bind documentation here).
- a single zone file may be tied to many domains, you may therefore attribute the same zone to many domains, and thus only one modification is necessary for updating all those domains.
- zones are now saved and thus you have the possibility of rolling back to a previous version of the zone if an error slips into your modification.
- modifications of the zone are taken into account almost immediately.
- addition of a new Gandi zone file management interface that allows you to easily update the content of your zone, without having to know BIND syntax. (our new interface).
To profit from these new services, please update your new DNS to be:
Primary nameserver: a.dns.gandi.net
Secondary nameserver: b.dns.gandi.net
DNS 3 : c.dns.gandi.net
This update will be done automatically if you update certain settings of your domain (such as URL forwarding).
Comments
Is there any trouble with those DNS currently ?
It seems that our domain has lot of troubles being resolved since yesterday.
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.
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?
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?
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.
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!
Ah, excellent, thank you!
Do you have any plans to allow other nameservers to slave from yours?
Cheers,
Sean.
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.
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