[Freeipa-devel] DNS and replication

Dmitri Pal dpal at redhat.com
Wed Nov 5 20:27:27 UTC 2008


>> If we in future move to the read only replicas how would DNS updates
>> be affected?
>> Should we think about this situation now and at least assess how we
>> are going to configure DNS in case of the RO replica?
>>     
>
> AFAIK, this should not be a concern for us. If you try to write to a RO
> replica, it should redirect you to a master. This should be made
> transparently. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong about this :)
>
>   

You are correct. I am just concerned that if DNS produces a big volume 
of the updates such redirection might become a real bottleneck.
The question is really "should we worry about this becoming a problem"? 
Is there any concern about this?
If not - the discussion is closed.


Thanks
Dmitri




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