Re: The worst thing about the exploit -- Have you done your part?

2008-07-27 Thread Chris Buxton
be easy to convince people this is a real problem. (I've had better experiences elsewhere. And all of my friends and family whose ISP's are not updated are using opendns.com.) Chris Buxton Professional Services Men Mice

Re: do I want/need allow-query-cache for local subnet?

2008-08-04 Thread Chris Buxton
for others. For example, setting allow-query to be more restrictive than the defaults for the other two will restrict those two as well. Setting either allow-recursion or allow-query-cache will usually set the other to the same value. Chris Buxton Professional Services Men Mice On Aug 3, 2008

Re: bind - 9.5.0-P1

2008-08-12 Thread Chris Buxton
an explicit named.conf if you want something other than the default behaviors. To make it run as a daemon but otherwise the same as above, simply remove the -g argument from the command line: /path/to/named -c /dev/null It will log messages to syslogd if syslogd is running. Chris Buxton Professional

Re: Feature request: Separate the idea of working directory from configuration directory

2008-08-20 Thread Chris Buxton
in named.conf. Chris Buxton Professional Services Men Mice On Aug 19, 2008, at 3:11 PM, JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 wrote: At Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:12:47 -0700, Doug Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By default in FreeBSD the directory option is set to /etc/namedb (the traditional name in *BSD

Re: bind 9.3.5-P2 init.d script

2008-08-23 Thread Chris Buxton
. The OP should recompile, starting from the configure step. The configure command must be given arguments setting prefix to /usr, plus resetting the locations of named.conf and named.pid. Try './ configure --help | less' for a list of all available options. Chris Buxton Professional Services Men

Re: successful response with no NSs

2008-08-26 Thread Chris Buxton
for negative answers (a cacheable SOA record) and is required for referrals. Chris Buxton Professional Services Men Mice On Aug 26, 2008, at 11:04 AM, Luis Silva wrote: Hi all! I'm detecting a strange behaviour in Portuguese server (at least is my opinion). I'm sending a query

Re: BIND forwarders

2008-09-02 Thread Chris Buxton
server. As Mark Andrews noted on this list not long ago, using RTT for forwarders is very, very tricky, and often does not result in any kind of predictable choice of forwarders from a list. Chris Buxton Professional Services Men Mice On Aug 29, 2008, at 12:12 PM, Thilanka Samarasekera wrote

Re: BIND 9.3.5-P1 update corrupted no longer in chroot

2008-09-02 Thread Chris Buxton
your './configure' command line from when you built BIND. Chris Buxton Professional Services Men Mice On Aug 30, 2008, at 5:26 PM, Robert Spangler wrote: On Friday 29 August 2008 09:51, Larry Gross wrote: 1. /usr/etc/rndc.conf recreated. This is the one that rndc uses. In a chroot env

Re: BIND 9.3.5-P1 update corrupted no longer in chroot

2008-09-02 Thread Chris Buxton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sep 2, 2008, at 7:49 PM, Robert Spangler wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2008 17:43, Chris Buxton wrote: No, that's not quite it. The problem here is that rndc is looking for the key in /usr/etc. Which tells me that the build that created rndc

Re: configuration question

2008-09-04 Thread Chris Buxton
can completely merge the data. (There's no reason your Unix server names can't live in, say, an Active Directory-integrated zone. Chris Buxton Professional Services Men Mice On Sep 4, 2008, at 10:22 AM, Wood, Mike wrote: Hi All, I'm fairly new to configuring bind, so please bear with me

Re: Two DNS Servers inside a firewall

2008-09-04 Thread Chris Buxton
query is coming from 127.0.0.1, and that address is probably not listed in the allow-recursion ACL. Chris Buxton Professional Services Men Mice On Sep 4, 2008, at 2:16 PM, ListAcc wrote: Hello, For the life of me I can not find the details of the problem: I have two servers in question

Re: why setting view with recursion option is invalid in BIND 9.5.0-P1

2008-09-08 Thread Chris Buxton
. Views should only be used when necessary, and with full understanding of their ups and downs. One other note: The two query-source{,-v6} port 53 statements should be removed. They are dangerous. allow recursion { any; } is also generally a bad idea. Chris Buxton Professional Services Men Mice

Re: why setting view with recursion option is invalid in BIND 9.5.0-P1

2008-09-09 Thread Chris Buxton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sep 9, 2008, at 2:18 PM, Kevin Darcy wrote: Chris Buxton wrote: On Sep 8, 2008, at 8:11 PM, Kevin Darcy wrote: If you are hosting zones to the Internet, then create a separate view for that (call it e.g. hosting or external), with a match

Re: SERVFAIL

2008-09-10 Thread Chris Buxton
section, if there is any conflict. It is common for an authoritative answer to contain the NS records of the zone containing the answer, along with any known addresses for those servers. Chris Buxton Professional Services Men Mice On Sep 10, 2008, at 10:04 AM, Paul Vixie wrote: i

Re: SERVFAIL

2008-09-10 Thread Chris Buxton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sep 10, 2008, at 4:26 PM, Paul Vixie wrote: From: Chris Buxton [EMAIL PROTECTED] A name server may be authoritative for both a zone and its subzone. Your traversal tool is wrong - the server is giving an authoritative answer

Re: check-names settings

2008-09-12 Thread Chris Buxton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It was not recognized in BIND 9 version 9.3.0. With = 9.3.0, it does, and it does check names. This was one of the 9.2-9.3 gotchas. Chris Buxton Professional Services Men Mice On Sep 12, 2008, at 2:17 PM, Cherney John-CJC030 wrote: I'm

Re: logging permission denied

2008-09-18 Thread Chris Buxton
. Then if named is logging to /var/log (inside the jail), you can access its logs at the path /var/log/named. And you should turn SELinux off if you don't have experience maintaining it. Chris Buxton Professional Services Men Mice On Sep 18, 2008, at 6:48 AM, aklist wrote: File is relative

Re: Multiple BIND ** Recommendation**

2008-09-18 Thread Chris Buxton
that for one or both instances.) With views, each view has its own authoritative zones, its own cache and resolver configuration (e.g. forward stub zones, root hints, etc.), and optionally its own ACL's, keys, servers, and so forth. Each view is almost a separate instance of named. Chris

Re: Answering unknown zone queries

2008-09-19 Thread Chris Buxton
Why do you want this? The setting that controls this is allow-query-cache. Chris Buxton Professional Services Men Mice On Sep 18, 2008, at 8:19 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I couldn't find anything obvious, which one is the setting to make BIND to respond to unknown zone queries? i.e

Re: question about views

2008-09-23 Thread Chris Buxton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Views are probably not the answer. Try allow-query instead: zone backup.example.com { type master; file backup.db; allow-query { restricted_networks_ACL; }; }; Chris Buxton Professional Services Men Mice On Sep 23, 2008

Re: BIND9, DynDNS, Multiple RRs

2008-09-23 Thread Chris Buxton
likely possible to work around this in some fashion, but you'll need to be creative. Chris Buxton Professional Services Men Mice On Sep 22, 2008, at 5:04 PM, Chris Buxton wrote: First, do not use CNAME's for your name server names. That means, the following is wrong and will not work reliably

Re: question about views

2008-09-23 Thread Chris Buxton
then break its subdomains out into even more files. Chris Buxton Professional Services Men Mice On Sep 23, 2008, at 2:00 PM, Michele Chubirka wrote: Thanks. But one more question. We keep our subdomains in one main db file. Can we break out one subdomain into a separate db file while leaving

Re: Bind named to 0.0.0.0 (INADDR_ANY)

2008-10-01 Thread Chris Buxton
the right to bind to port 53; therefore, any interface that appears after named drops privileges is unavailable. (You might be able to work around this on Linux by setting capabilities [libcap2].) Chris Buxton Professional Services Men Mice

Re: BIND Based Appliances.

2008-10-03 Thread Chris Buxton
than an appliance, Men Mice Suite can provide that. It installs easily onto your existing Linux (or other) DNS servers and offers: - user accounts, with permissions - auditing - and much more If you're interested, please contact me off-list. Chris Buxton Professional Services Men Mice

Re: BIND on IPv6 interface

2008-10-05 Thread Chris Buxton
The default for listen-on is { any; }. That's why it's listening on your IPv4 interfaces. To disable this, use: listen-on { none; }; To get it to listen on just a single IPv6 interface, have you tried omitting the subnet mask? For example: listen-on-v6 { ::1; }; Chris Buxton Professional

Re: slave BIND with split views

2008-10-05 Thread Chris Buxton
That's right. However, it's performing the SOA query that precedes a zone transfer from the first available IP. Set the query source for each view: query-source 192.168.1.7; Chris Buxton Professional Services Men Mice On Oct 5, 2008, at 1:24 PM, Jeff Palmer wrote: Right, I

Re: BIND Based Appliances.

2008-10-05 Thread Chris Buxton
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Re: Adding new domains without restarting

2008-10-09 Thread Chris Buxton
and monitoring products to make this more reliable, please feel free to contact me off-list. Chris Buxton Professional Services Men Mice

Re: CNAME from Subdomain to main domain-name.

2008-10-10 Thread Chris Buxton
Probably not. If domain.com is actually a second-level domain delegated from .com, and thus having an SOA record, it may not have a CNAME record. A CNAME record may not have the same name as any other record other than RRSIG and NSEC, which are necessary for DNSSEC. Chris Buxton

Re: Disable Root Hints

2008-10-23 Thread Chris Buxton
to list all of the names of the public root servers. Just create a root zone that delegates your private domain name, like this: $TTL 1d . SOA [put the 7 SOA data fields here] NS your.server.foo.com. foo.com. NS your.server.foo.com. Chris Buxton Professional Services Men Mice

Re: Security issue

2008-10-29 Thread Chris Buxton
a common occurrence. Chris Buxton Professional Services Men Mice

Re: FORMERR resolving

2008-11-07 Thread Chris Buxton
it. If you don't need it, then you're almost certainly better off without it. Your root hints file should just contain the actual root servers (names and addresses, in the form of NS and A records). Chris Buxton Professional Services Men Mice

Re: Auto add zones to secondary, from primary

2008-11-11 Thread Chris Buxton
the list archives for this topic, and specifically for a message from Kevin Darcy where he outlined this in detail. One archive of the list is available here: http://readlist.com/lists/isc.org/bind-users/ Chris Buxton Professional Services Men Mice On Nov 11, 2008, at 7:31 AM, Todd Snyder wrote

Re: Need queries summary count for A records within a zone

2008-11-11 Thread Chris Buxton
and so forth, please feel free to contact me off-list. Chris Buxton Professional Services Men Mice On Nov 11, 2008, at 9:25 AM, Steve Koon wrote: I can get the total queries again my ESCAPIA.COM zone which is great but now I have been asked to report on the queries for certain A records

Re: Trouble updating zones in a multi-view scenario

2008-11-13 Thread Chris Buxton
in the trusted view. If you absolutely must have separate views that contain the exact same zones, make the external view of the master server a slave of the internal view, and then use TSIG keys or {query,transfer,notify}- source to allow the two views to talk to each other. Chris Buxton