Re: denied NS/IN

2009-01-21 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 20.01.09 17:52, Frank Bulk wrote: That's being discussed on NANOG, here's one thread: http://markmail.org/message/ydiqnztzmz5qmusf See here for more details in blocking them: http://www.cymru.com/Documents/secure-bind-template.html specifically: blackhole { // Deny

Re: What to do about openDNS

2009-01-21 Thread Scott Haneda
On Jan 21, 2009, at 1:48 AM, Sten Carlsen wrote: Are you really sure this is ALL the fault of opendns? Mostly, and in my tests, I believe so. However, it was also why I was asking here, before I go too far out on a limb. Seems to me that the addition of www. and other such like stuff is

Re: Disable cache in bind 9.6

2009-01-21 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 20.01.09 12:49, Dmitry Rybin wrote: How to disable cache in bind-9.6? ttl=0 - bad idea. Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: if you know that setting TTL to 0 is a bad idea, why do yuo think that disabling a cache in BIND is not a bad idea? Dmitry Rybin wrote: Because under high load

compiling BIND on AIX

2009-01-21 Thread Jerry Kemp
I have compiled BIND many times on Solaris/OpenSolaris and several different *BSD's, and this has always been a pretty simple procedure. I currently need to compile (a current) BIND on AIX 5.2 and it appears to me that there is a little more work involved to get a successful compile on this

libbind for 9.6 series is still not available

2009-01-21 Thread Adam Tkac
Hi all, I would like to ask when libbind for 9.6 series will be available? There is change 2447 which says libbind has been split out as a separate product but AFAIK such product is not anywhere. Regards, Adam -- Adam Tkac, Red Hat, Inc. ___

Re: Disable cache in bind 9.6

2009-01-21 Thread Dmitry Rybin
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: This is _NOT_ a problem of BIND. This is a problem of its admin who can't read the docs and set up max-cache-size, which does exactly what is needed in this case. Hmm... And why bind allocate all system memory, if max-cache-size 16M? And views... 50 views.

BIND9 Logging

2009-01-21 Thread Baird, Josh
I have one instance of named that is listening on multiple IP's. I am looking to see how many queries are destined to one of those IP's that named is listening on. I do have query logging enabled, but I don't see it revealing the destination interface. Is there a way make it log this as well?

512 byte limit

2009-01-21 Thread Todd Snyder
Good day, I am stuggling to get my head around the 512 byte limit with regards to DNS queries/responses. I am sure there is much in the RTFM category, and I will continue to RTFM, but I wanted to ask a couple of specific questions. 1) If a reply is over 512 bytes, which can't in theory be done

Re: unwanted delegations was: What to do about openDNS

2009-01-21 Thread Matthew Pounsett
On 21-Jan-2009, at 03:23 , Scott Haneda wrote: On Jan 20, 2009, at 6:42 PM, Matthew Pounsett wrote: Registries that implement host records (so, at least the gTLDs) could accept the word of the registrant of the zone that contains a name server (or the word of their registrar on their

differences between BIND 9.4 and 9.5

2009-01-21 Thread LENA MATUSOVSKAYA, BLOOMBERG/ 731 LEXIN
Hello, Could you pls point me to the documentation explaning the major differences between BIND 9.4 and 9.5 releases? I looked at https://www.isc.org/downloadables/11 and didn't find that information. Thank you ___ bind-users mailing list

Re: differences between BIND 9.4 and 9.5

2009-01-21 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, LENA MATUSOVSKAYA, BLOOMBERG/ 731 LEXIN wrote: Could you pls point me to the documentation explaning the major differences between BIND 9.4 and 9.5 releases? I looked at https://www.isc.org/downloadables/11 and didn't find that information. Hi, Please see

Re: 512 byte limit

2009-01-21 Thread Niall O'Reilly
On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 11:47 -0500, Todd Snyder wrote: I was under the (likely mistaken) impression that over 512 wasn't allowed, but there it is ... I could very well be completely messed up regarding the rules, so please forgive my ignorance. If you know my answer is in TFM, please batter

Re: 512 byte limit

2009-01-21 Thread Anton Korotin
On 1/21/09, Todd Snyder tsny...@rim.com wrote: Good day, Hello, I am stuggling to get my head around the 512 byte limit with regards to DNS queries/responses. I am sure there is much in the RTFM category, and I will continue to RTFM, but I wanted to ask a couple of specific questions.

Re: 512 byte limit

2009-01-21 Thread Josh Kuo
1) If a reply is over 512 bytes, which can't in theory be done via UDP, should the queried server reply telling my resolver to ask again using TCP? Assuming, as one normally should, that there are firewalls, the queried server can't simply reply TCP, as it would get blocked. I am not sure

Re: libbind for 9.6 series is still not available

2009-01-21 Thread Evan Hunt
I would like to ask when libbind for 9.6 series will be available? There is change 2447 which says libbind has been split out as a separate product but AFAIK such product is not anywhere. The beta's being tested internally at ISC. Assuming it's trouble-free I'd expect it to be public in a

Re: denied NS/IN

2009-01-21 Thread Niall O'Reilly
On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 12:44 +1100, Mark Andrews wrote: You should talk to your ISP to chase the traffic back to its source and get BCP 38 implemented there. BCP 38 is ~10 years old now. There is no excuse for not filtering spoofed traffic. Absolutely.

Re: in-addr.arpa delegation failure

2009-01-21 Thread Lars Hecking
Stephane Bortzmeyer writes: [...] IMHO, you need to go back to the drawing board and, before writing named.conf and zone files, deciding on a general architecture. Who will be the master for 30.172.in-addr.arpa? Who will be authoritative for 30.172.in-addr.arpa? Who will be the master for

Re: Disable cache in bind 9.6

2009-01-21 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 49773369.4080...@corbina.net, Dmitry Rybin writes: Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: This is _NOT_ a problem of BIND. This is a problem of its admin who can't read the docs and set up max-cache-size, which does exactly what is needed in this case. Hmm... And why bind

Re: rndc halt -p behavior

2009-01-21 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 2971f259-4897-48f8-b418-2f7599075...@gronkulator.com, Rich Goodson writes: The behavior of 'rndc halt -p' appears to be different from the =20 documentation. According to the BIND 9.4 ARM rndc section: halt [-p] Stop the server immediately. Recent changes made through =20

Re: denied NS/IN

2009-01-21 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 1232561124.6369.187.ca...@d410-heron, Niall O'Reilly writes: On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 12:44 +1100, Mark Andrews wrote: You should talk to your ISP to chase the traffic back to its source and get BCP 38 implemented there. BCP 38 is ~10 years old now. There

Re: rndc halt -p behavior

2009-01-21 Thread Alan Clegg
Rich Goodson wrote: If -p is specified named's process id is returned. This allows an external process to determine when named had completed halting. Whether named is still answering queries or just cleaning up its allocated memory, the PID is returned BEFORE named is gone, as named is

Collision detection by reverse DNS lookup?

2009-01-21 Thread John Craig
I am looking to set up DHCP in an environment that does not support Dynamic DNS. There are many servers that will not be using DHCP in this environment. Ideally, I would like to do collision detection both by ping (which I know can be done) and reverse DNS lookup. I know that ping collision

Re: rndc halt -p behavior

2009-01-21 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 1a345677-0c03-45a7-a1e1-af364fe87...@gronkulator.com, Rich Goodson writes: Basically, I'm trying to use a shell script to replace the missing 'restart' argument to rndc, so I was looking for some sort of return value that tells me, hey, your old named process is now gone,

Re: forwarding but no recursion?

2009-01-21 Thread Michael Milligan
etirado@orange-ftgroup.com wrote: Hello, Is this possible to disable recursion for all incoming queries except for those listed in zone statement with a forwarder. I know that no forwarding is allowed if we disable recursion. Something like this ( but this doesn't work I know ):

Re: rndc halt -p behavior

2009-01-21 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Rich Goodson wrote: And I'm expected to know this, how? (incidentally, I added a 'wait' statement to my script after I discovered this behavior). This behavior does not appear to be what the documentation describes, is all I'm trying to say. Just to clarify the

Re: rndc halt -p behavior

2009-01-21 Thread Barry Margolin
In article gl8hdv$228...@sf1.isc.org, Jeremy C. Reed jeremy_r...@isc.org wrote: On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Rich Goodson wrote: And I'm expected to know this, how? (incidentally, I added a 'wait' statement to my script after I discovered this behavior). This behavior does not appear to be

Re: rndc halt -p behavior

2009-01-21 Thread Rich Goodson
I think that the word immediately needs to stay, as that's what differentiates halt from stop. The documentation in its current form seems to imply that named returns a signal to rndc as it's exiting. Perhaps even a simple change such as: If -p is specified named’s process id is returned

Re: rndc halt -p behavior

2009-01-21 Thread Doug Barton
Jeremy C. Reed wrote: On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Rich Goodson wrote: And I'm expected to know this, how? Rich, you read into the text what you wanted it to say (as you indicated in another message) but failed to try to understand what was actually there. The behavior you're saying you thought the