This post will kick off a series on Scalable Solutions. Entasis uses a strong architectural emphasis in our AWS Solutions Group to deliver solutions that are Elastic by nature, Resilient in design, with Performance on demand. These are the three pillars of Scalable Solutions. In this series we will be…
BIND 9: Configure Slave Zones
Today we are going over one of the fundamental aspects of administering a DNS infrastructure, that is maintaining consistency across multiple replicas. The simplest method of accomplishing this is to have a master/slave relationship. Essentially you have a read-write (master) copy and a read-only (slave) copy of the zone. The…
Solaris 11: Install Bind Server
Today I am going to document the process of install BIND in Solaris 11. I am using a Solaris 11.1 zone for this task, though nothing in this is specific to zones, and it should work on previous versions of Solaris 11. I have done this quite a few times…
Using Curl to Interact with Resource Records in Rackspace Cloud DNS
In this article we will be using curl to interact with Rackspace’s Cloud DNS to manipulate resource records in zones which already exist. For details on how to use curl against Rackspace’s Cloud DNS API please see part one in this series “Using Curl to Access Rackspace Cloud DNS” in…
Using Curl to Interact with Zones in Rackspace Cloud DNS
In my previous post “Using Curl to Access Rackspace Cloud DNS” we documented the basics of authenticating with the Rackspace Cloud for use with the Beta DNS service they offer, as well as doing basic queries against this service. Today we are going to focus on creating our first domain,…