From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Drew Leske Subject: Re: Login load balancing Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 10:37:58 -0700 Message-ID: <44510176.7020108@uvic.ca> References: <444FAEFF.1040100@uvic.ca> <444FE835.2010007@gmx.net> <444FEC93.6070101@uvic.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: netfilter-bounces@lists.netfilter.org Errors-To: netfilter-bounces@lists.netfilter.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: michael@grife.net Cc: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org michael@grife.net wrote: > On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Drew Leske wrote: > >> Unfortunately we don't control the DNS--another group here has >> responsibility for that. I'll chat with them and see if they have >> provision >> for remote updates. > > There is another possibility you could consider. Instead of having them > enable remote updates, get them to delegate a new zone for you. > > All you would need to do then is setup some bind servers. You would then > have direct access to update the A records. I considered that, but then I'm implementing a service provided by experts in another group. (I provide a BIND server internally for our cluster, but not one with public access.) This is, shall we say, "discouraged" (for good reason--it's one more thing to be an expert in and we've already got experts elsewhere). Thanks! Drew. -- Drew Leske :: Systems Group/Unix, Computing Services, University of Victoria dleske@uvic.ca / +1250 472 5055 (office) / +1250 588 4311 (cel)