DNS TTL settings on individual records 1

[AnimusTek]

Hello,

I am setting up round robin DNS to distribute LDAP connections between servers. Most of the info that I have found that is not specific to the MS implementation of DNS says to change the TTL to something low for those particulat records. MS DNS does not seem to allow this, and only the SOA TTL and default TTL can be changed. Is there a way to hack around this? Our DNS is integrated with AD, so there are no *.dns files to be edited..

 

[ShackDaddy]

You can set a particular zone to be AD-integrated or not. Get properties on the zone, and change the Type field. You will then be able to edit the .dns file directly, adding TTL information. By default a M$-created .dns file does not have individual TTL's for records, just the one for the SOA at the top, but I believe you can treat the file in normal BIND-compliant ways.

ShackDaddy

 

[AnimusTek]

Thanks ShackDaddy.

I suppose I could set up a new zone (something like rr.shazbot.edu) and use multiple records for espen.rr.shazbot.edu, setting the SOA records for that zone to something low (like 1). Too bad M$ does not allow for CNAME based round robin, so that mairead.shazbot.edu would round robin to espen.shazbot.edu and able.shazbot.edu

oh well.

 

[ShackDaddy]

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