Re: UAE punycode in zone

2010-05-10 Thread Chris Hills
On 09/05/2010 19:31, Warren Kumari wrote: I am *so* not an IDN person (although I did follow the IDNA WG for a while), but I *believe* that the process is just to convert the native UTF8 representation (تامايدوجان.سى) to punycode (xn--mgbaajmr6mmaps.xn--ygb8b). There are a bunch of tools that

ISC website down

2009-12-07 Thread Chris Hills
It is sod's law that just when I need to look up the email address to report a bug, currently the website is showing:- Unable to connect to database server [..] The MySQL error was: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2). [..]

Re: ISC website down

2009-12-07 Thread Chris Hills
It is back now. ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: nsupdate.exe and IPv6

2009-11-23 Thread Chris Hills
On 23/11/09 11:15, Cathy Almond wrote: Chris - thanks for this - we've picked it up and made a bug report ourselves. But for future reference, our BIND mailing addresses are summarised here: https://www.isc.org/software/bind/news Cathy Thanks Cathy!

Re: Forwarding updates between views

2009-11-23 Thread Chris Hills
On 23/11/09 18:05, Chris Buxton wrote: The internal-in view should have some log entry of the forwarded update. I'm not sure what category or severity level that would be, though. I could not find it in either the query log or the update log. Bug? Of course, if you were to start using signed

Re: Forwarding updates between views

2009-11-22 Thread Chris Hills
On 22/11/09 21:01, Chris Buxton wrote: Change the zone from type forward to type slave, and add allow-update-forwarding. zone dyn.example.com. { type slave; masters { ::1; }; allow-update-forwarding { local-networks; }; }; Then in the external-in view, change

nsupdate.exe and IPv6

2009-11-22 Thread Chris Hills
Hi It seems nsupdate.exe in 9.6.1-P1 does not properly locate IPv6 nameservers. C:\Temp\bind-9.6.1-P1dig +short ns-v6-1.chaz6.com. in 2001:16d8:dd22:38::2 2001:16d8:ee0f:38::2 C:\Temp\bind-9.6.1-P1nsupdate server 2001:16d8:dd22:38::2 update add localhost.dyn.ipv6.chaz6.com. 7200 IN

Re: Reverse DNS Dig returning PTR results only with trace option

2009-11-10 Thread Chris Hills
On 10/11/09 18:25, Raj Adhikari wrote: Now I can do a dig for an hour or so. But again I run into same problem. It wont return PTR record unless I explicitly do dig on ns1.cyzap.net. Also, the last did showing ns1.cyzap.net as Authority NS for this IP. But trace showing ns1.moneytreesystems.com

Re: How to upgrade

2009-08-23 Thread Chris Hills
On 23/08/09 08:23, sasa sasa wrote: Hi List, I want to know how to upgrade from BIND 9.4.2 to latest version? Thanks. Blue Blue Please see the following url for obtaining BIND:- https://www.isc.org/software/bind/getting You should have the least trouble upgrading to 9.4.3-P3 however the

Re: Delegating reverse DNS to a customer

2009-08-18 Thread Chris Hills
On 18/08/09 15:55, Ben Bridges wrote: Since the CIDR block you have been allocated containing 63.250.251.0/24 is smaller than a /16, ARIN is delegating authority for the IN-ADDR.ARPA zones for each of your /24's directly to your dns servers. In order for your customer's dns servers to be

Binding on addresses

2009-07-28 Thread Chris Hills
Hi After changing configuration from listen-on-v6 { any; }; to using specific addresses, I observed the following in the log after issuing `rndc reload` (times are CEST):- 29-Jul-2009 04:44:22.893 network: error: binding TCP socket: address in use 29-Jul-2009 04:44:22.893 network: error:

Re: IPv6 hostname resolution not working

2009-07-16 Thread Chris Hills
On 16/07/09 09:13, Karl Auer wrote: Windows XP cannot resolve over IPv6. It can use IPv6 addresses, but must make its DNS queries and receive its DNS responses via IPv4 transport. Sad but true. XP boxes must resolve via IPv4. As a stop-gap you can install a dns resolver (BIND, Unbound, GbDns,

Re: Configuration for hostname.bind.

2009-06-15 Thread Chris Hills
On 15/06/09 11:29, Andrey G. Sergeev (AKA Andris) wrote: There is no need for _any_ patch to use the built-in functionality. The patch makes queries for id.server. ch txt report the value set by the version option /by default/ without any additional configuration. Regards, Chris

Re: Configuration for hostname.bind.

2009-06-14 Thread Chris Hills
On 13/06/09 16:23, Andrey G. Sergeev (AKA Andris) wrote: Greetings, Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:08:53 +0200 Chris Hills wrote: One can change the response to version.bind. chaos txt using the configuration directive version. Is there an equivalent configuration directive for hostname.bind. chaos txt

Re: Configuration for hostname.bind.

2009-06-14 Thread Chris Hills
On 13/06/09 16:23, Andrey G. Sergeev (AKA Andris) wrote: Also, is it possible to configure BIND to respond on version.server. chaos txt and id.server. chaos txt in the same manner as version.bind. and hostname.bind. (i.e. automatically without requiring a separate zone file)? options {

Re: Configuration for hostname.bind.

2009-06-13 Thread Chris Hills
On 13/06/09 11:08, Chris Hills wrote: Hi One can change the response to version.bind. chaos txt using the configuration directive version. Is there an equivalent configuration directive for hostname.bind. chaos txt? Also, is it possible to configure BIND to respond on version.server. chaos txt

Re: Pruning the reverse zone tree

2009-02-04 Thread Chris Hills
Chris Thompson wrote: I would welcome feedback on http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/cet1/prune-reverse-zones which describes a scheme we are experimenting with for reverse lookup. (Executive summary: take RFC 2317 and carry the ideas to their [possibly] logical conclusion.) It's not BIND-specific,

Re: BIND 9.6 Flaw - CNAME vs. A Record in MX Records are NOT Illegal

2009-01-25 Thread Chris Hills
Perhaps one day MX records can be deprecated entirely in favor of SRV. Jabber got it right, and it would solve the e-mail server autodiscovery problem for clients in a generic non-proprietary manner. For example:- _smtp-server._tcp for servers, _smtp-client._tcp for clients.