DNS Update Issue
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@Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:
@scottalanmiller said in DNS Update Issue:
(and others, this has come up multiple times in the last few weeks alone)
It has? where?
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@Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:
@scottalanmiller said in DNS Update Issue:
It's most useful only under a very specific set of circumstances where you are going with AD and LAN-based, and you have redundancy locally, not redundancy over a WAN link like many SMBs do.
Or the opposite - home users who generally only have public DNS servers. or travelers who also only generally have public DNS servers.
In fact, this is only an issue for those who do have internal DNS servers with internal only records.
Home users only ave their router. Because that is what routers do by default.
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@JaredBusch said in DNS Update Issue:
@Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:
@scottalanmiller said in DNS Update Issue:
It's most useful only under a very specific set of circumstances where you are going with AD and LAN-based, and you have redundancy locally, not redundancy over a WAN link like many SMBs do.
Or the opposite - home users who generally only have public DNS servers. or travelers who also only generally have public DNS servers.
In fact, this is only an issue for those who do have internal DNS servers with internal only records.
Home users only ave their router. Because that is what routers do by default.
True - so it's a non issue as there is no secondary to failover to. Frequently the same for most businesses with free WiFi as well.
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@Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:
@scottalanmiller said in DNS Update Issue:
It's most useful only under a very specific set of circumstances where you are going with AD and LAN-based, and you have redundancy locally, not redundancy over a WAN link like many SMBs do.
Or the opposite - home users who generally only have public DNS servers. or travelers who also only generally have public DNS servers.
In fact, this is only an issue for those who do have internal DNS servers with internal only records.
It's only a benefit there. For people using public, you want the Linux way. Really for everyone you want the Linux way except a very niche group of people in medium or larger businesses that somehow have non-stop DNS problems.
The thing is is that when the Linux way fails, it fails "soft" and no one notices because the negatives are SO minor. But when the Windows way fails, it fails "hard" and causes things to not work potentially.
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@scottalanmiller said in DNS Update Issue:
@Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:
Well - frankly - I have no clue how much of a real issue this is any more. I haven't had incorrectly setup DNS in ages.
I suppose I could setup my PC with google for a secondary, then what - make a script that tries pinging one of my internal resources by DNS name and see if/ever it fails?
It's enough of an issue that everyone recommends not having public failover from clients because they perceive it as simply not workable. So either it's actually a big deal, or all that advice is wrong.
I hear what you are saying - and at the moment I can't muster the strength to fight over which way is better - Linux vs Windows for DNS...
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Well, I guess I'm setting up a BIND server tonight
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@scottalanmiller said in DNS Update Issue:
@Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:
@scottalanmiller said in DNS Update Issue:
It's most useful only under a very specific set of circumstances where you are going with AD and LAN-based, and you have redundancy locally, not redundancy over a WAN link like many SMBs do.
Or the opposite - home users who generally only have public DNS servers. or travelers who also only generally have public DNS servers.
In fact, this is only an issue for those who do have internal DNS servers with internal only records.
It's only a benefit there. For people using public, you want the Linux way. Really for everyone you want the Linux way except a very niche group of people in medium or larger businesses that somehow have non-stop DNS problems.
The thing is is that when the Linux way fails, it fails "soft" and no one notices because the negatives are SO minor. But when the Windows way fails, it fails "hard" and causes things to not work potentially.
You're making that claim - why? because you believe that using a public DNS should be totally acceptable for client machines as a secondary DNS?
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@wirestyle22 said in DNS Update Issue:
Well, I guess I'm setting up a BIND server tonight
I like dnsmasq much more. Easier to setup as it's all in one config file imo.
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@travisdh1 said in DNS Update Issue:
@wirestyle22 said in DNS Update Issue:
Well, I guess I'm setting up a BIND server tonight
I like dnsmasq much more. Easier to setup as it's all in one config file imo.
I thought BIND was the standard or this old info
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@Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:
@scottalanmiller said in DNS Update Issue:
@Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:
Well - frankly - I have no clue how much of a real issue this is any more. I haven't had incorrectly setup DNS in ages.
I suppose I could setup my PC with google for a secondary, then what - make a script that tries pinging one of my internal resources by DNS name and see if/ever it fails?
It's enough of an issue that everyone recommends not having public failover from clients because they perceive it as simply not workable. So either it's actually a big deal, or all that advice is wrong.
I hear what you are saying - and at the moment I can't muster the strength to fight over which way is better - Linux vs Windows for DNS...
Well it was you who argued that the Linux way caused problems. I didn't think it was even a question, it was a slam dunk of "doing it right" to the point that people had called the Windows system a "bug". You thought that the reliability and performance of the Linux was didn't seem worth it. Not sure why you felt that way, but it was you alone who was arguing for the Windows "stick with failovers, no matter how bad they are until they fail or you reboot" way.
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@wirestyle22 said in DNS Update Issue:
@travisdh1 said in DNS Update Issue:
@wirestyle22 said in DNS Update Issue:
Well, I guess I'm setting up a BIND server tonight
I like dnsmasq much more. Easier to setup as it's all in one config file imo.
I thought BIND was the standard or this old info
It is because dnsmasq has/had some sort of limitation. I forget what that limitation is/was tho.
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@travisdh1 said in DNS Update Issue:
@wirestyle22 said in DNS Update Issue:
@travisdh1 said in DNS Update Issue:
@wirestyle22 said in DNS Update Issue:
Well, I guess I'm setting up a BIND server tonight
I like dnsmasq much more. Easier to setup as it's all in one config file imo.
I thought BIND was the standard or this old info
It is because dnsmasq has/had some sort of limitation. I forget what that limitation is/was tho.
Interesting. I'll have to read about it.
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@scottalanmiller said in DNS Update Issue:
@Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:
@scottalanmiller said in DNS Update Issue:
@Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:
Well - frankly - I have no clue how much of a real issue this is any more. I haven't had incorrectly setup DNS in ages.
I suppose I could setup my PC with google for a secondary, then what - make a script that tries pinging one of my internal resources by DNS name and see if/ever it fails?
It's enough of an issue that everyone recommends not having public failover from clients because they perceive it as simply not workable. So either it's actually a big deal, or all that advice is wrong.
I hear what you are saying - and at the moment I can't muster the strength to fight over which way is better - Linux vs Windows for DNS...
Well it was you who argued that the Linux way caused problems. I didn't think it was even a question, it was a slam dunk of "doing it right" to the point that people had called the Windows system a "bug". You thought that the reliability and performance of the Linux was didn't seem worth it. Not sure why you felt that way, but it was you alone who was arguing for the Windows "stick with failovers, no matter how bad they are until they fail or you reboot" way.
What? I didn't say it caused problems - only that it could cause a delay in the case where DNS1 was down.
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@Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:
@scottalanmiller said in DNS Update Issue:
@Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:
@scottalanmiller said in DNS Update Issue:
It's most useful only under a very specific set of circumstances where you are going with AD and LAN-based, and you have redundancy locally, not redundancy over a WAN link like many SMBs do.
Or the opposite - home users who generally only have public DNS servers. or travelers who also only generally have public DNS servers.
In fact, this is only an issue for those who do have internal DNS servers with internal only records.
It's only a benefit there. For people using public, you want the Linux way. Really for everyone you want the Linux way except a very niche group of people in medium or larger businesses that somehow have non-stop DNS problems.
The thing is is that when the Linux way fails, it fails "soft" and no one notices because the negatives are SO minor. But when the Windows way fails, it fails "hard" and causes things to not work potentially.
You're making that claim - why? because you believe that using a public DNS should be totally acceptable for client machines as a secondary DNS?
Of course it SHOULD be acceptable. How the hell is it okay for Windows to be so broken that reasonable failovers, whether secondary or tertiary or whatever, have to be avoided because the platform is flaky and doesn't behave predictably or usefully?
And it doesn't matter that public is in use here. This applies equally to other internal servers, too. What if you failed to a slow DNS over a throttled WAN link and now are stuck with it because Windows never goes back to local primary?
Don't try to add "has to be public" to cover up a clear problem. You are missing the big picture, that one system works well and one works poorly.
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@Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:
@scottalanmiller said in DNS Update Issue:
@wirestyle22 said in DNS Update Issue:
@scottalanmiller said in DNS Update Issue:
@wirestyle22 said in DNS Update Issue:
Does anyone know what event causes this in Windows?
Cause what, the NIC to flip? I've heard Windows people say that it's just a bug and it does it randomly. I know that it could happen from a DNS server being unavailable for a split second, just long enough to fail a lookup.
That was my initial thought. So what--Linux OSes are checking periodically to see if they are using the first entry and Windows doesn't care until there's a hiccup?
Linux checks every time, I believe. That's the expected behaviour. It always uses its list top to bottom, it doesn't "change" primary just because it wants to.
See this just seems odd to me - why add in that delay every time.
You said that it seemed odd to you, "why add in that delay every time."
It shouldn't be odd, it should be super obvious as by far the best way. And that "delay every time" is an imperceptible delay .001% of the time. It only seems like "Every time" if you assume random DNS choices like people keep saying that Windows makes (I'm not convinced of this). Since Linux DNS is deterministic, it only adds that minuscule delay under failure conditions which in this day and age are super, duper rare (unless, apparently, you have Windows then the desktop seems to inject a server-like failure condition on its own.)
You make it sound like this is a foolish approach, but it fixes the problems everyone is reporting with essentially no downsides.
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@scottalanmiller said in DNS Update Issue:
@Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:
@scottalanmiller said in DNS Update Issue:
@Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:
@scottalanmiller said in DNS Update Issue:
It's most useful only under a very specific set of circumstances where you are going with AD and LAN-based, and you have redundancy locally, not redundancy over a WAN link like many SMBs do.
Or the opposite - home users who generally only have public DNS servers. or travelers who also only generally have public DNS servers.
In fact, this is only an issue for those who do have internal DNS servers with internal only records.
It's only a benefit there. For people using public, you want the Linux way. Really for everyone you want the Linux way except a very niche group of people in medium or larger businesses that somehow have non-stop DNS problems.
The thing is is that when the Linux way fails, it fails "soft" and no one notices because the negatives are SO minor. But when the Windows way fails, it fails "hard" and causes things to not work potentially.
You're making that claim - why? because you believe that using a public DNS should be totally acceptable for client machines as a secondary DNS?
Of course it SHOULD be acceptable. How the hell is it okay for Windows to be so broken that reasonable failovers, whether secondary or tertiary or whatever, have to be avoided because the platform is flaky and doesn't behave predictably or usefully?
I disagree, because assuming you have an additional working internal DNS server you should always fail to that to make sure you continue to have access to internal records.
And it doesn't matter that public is in use here. This applies equally to other internal servers, too. What if you failed to a slow DNS over a throttled WAN link and now are stuck with it because Windows never goes back to local primary?
OK - you do have a point here. though trying each and everytime does seem like overkill and lag inducing. I could see checking once a min or something.
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With the Linux way, I get the best DNS performance 99.99% of the time. And I get far broader failover options. I can, at the client level, fail between several internal DNS servers AND if those all fail, I can fail to public DNS, too. It gives me "more protection", not less. Which is really nice if I have to have DNS set statically and have machines that might move off of the network.
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@Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:
@scottalanmiller said in DNS Update Issue:
@Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:
@scottalanmiller said in DNS Update Issue:
@Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:
@scottalanmiller said in DNS Update Issue:
It's most useful only under a very specific set of circumstances where you are going with AD and LAN-based, and you have redundancy locally, not redundancy over a WAN link like many SMBs do.
Or the opposite - home users who generally only have public DNS servers. or travelers who also only generally have public DNS servers.
In fact, this is only an issue for those who do have internal DNS servers with internal only records.
It's only a benefit there. For people using public, you want the Linux way. Really for everyone you want the Linux way except a very niche group of people in medium or larger businesses that somehow have non-stop DNS problems.
The thing is is that when the Linux way fails, it fails "soft" and no one notices because the negatives are SO minor. But when the Windows way fails, it fails "hard" and causes things to not work potentially.
You're making that claim - why? because you believe that using a public DNS should be totally acceptable for client machines as a secondary DNS?
Of course it SHOULD be acceptable. How the hell is it okay for Windows to be so broken that reasonable failovers, whether secondary or tertiary or whatever, have to be avoided because the platform is flaky and doesn't behave predictably or usefully?
I disagree, because assuming you have an additional working internal DNS server you should always fail to that to make sure you continue to have access to internal records.
And HOW is that disagreeing? You didn't state anything that is disagreeing at all.
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@Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:
And it doesn't matter that public is in use here. This applies equally to other internal servers, too. What if you failed to a slow DNS over a throttled WAN link and now are stuck with it because Windows never goes back to local primary?
OK - you do have a point here. though trying each and everytime does seem like overkill and lag inducing. I could see checking once a min or something.
It might seem like overkill, but it's not. It's the simplest, fastest solution. I think the crux here is that you perceive that delay as being far more dramatic and important than it is. And I suspect that you believe DNS failures are more common and long term than they typically are.
The impact of that "trying every time" is undetectable to normal users, remember their local systems cache so it's super trivial to have it do this in the real world. And normal failures for DNS are insanely short lived, like seconds or a minute as a server reboots, typically.
In the real world, doing secondary lookups for a full minute when the server is already back is the actual overkill, on average.
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@scottalanmiller said in DNS Update Issue:
@Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:
@scottalanmiller said in DNS Update Issue:
@wirestyle22 said in DNS Update Issue:
@scottalanmiller said in DNS Update Issue:
@wirestyle22 said in DNS Update Issue:
Does anyone know what event causes this in Windows?
Cause what, the NIC to flip? I've heard Windows people say that it's just a bug and it does it randomly. I know that it could happen from a DNS server being unavailable for a split second, just long enough to fail a lookup.
That was my initial thought. So what--Linux OSes are checking periodically to see if they are using the first entry and Windows doesn't care until there's a hiccup?
Linux checks every time, I believe. That's the expected behaviour. It always uses its list top to bottom, it doesn't "change" primary just because it wants to.
See this just seems odd to me - why add in that delay every time.
You said that it seemed odd to you, "why add in that delay every time."
It shouldn't be odd, it should be super obvious as by far the best way. And that "delay every time" is an imperceptible delay .001% of the time. It only seems like "Every time" if you assume random DNS choices like people keep saying that Windows makes (I'm not convinced of this). Since Linux DNS is deterministic, it only adds that minuscule delay under failure conditions which in this day and age are super, duper rare (unless, apparently, you have Windows then the desktop seems to inject a server-like failure condition on its own.)
You make it sound like this is a foolish approach, but it fixes the problems everyone is reporting with essentially no downsides.
Well, I've missed the recent posts where people had sorta messed up DNS configs (Wirestyle's were completely hosed, not just public as a secondary issue), so I'm not sure where the recent issue is coming from - I just must have missed them.
The Linux way is also assuming that the failure most likely was simply intermittent and that the primary will be back online nearly instantly, and frankly, using public DNS that totally makes sense. But we could hope that wouldn't be the case on a local network - and again, I'm not sure it still is a real issue.
Does the linux way make things more transparent to the user? Sure does. And the cost, as you said, it pretty damned low... So fine - I'll give you all that, and if Windows changed to that method I definitely wouldn't complain.
