possible noob question - @ CNAME?

2009-02-08 Thread RJValenta
forever ago, i set myself up with a solid bandwidth and static IPs and started to host websites for my friends their small businesses. basically, they covered the cost of my internet access. so for 10 years i've been hosting my own name, mail, and web servers allowing me to '@ A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx'

bind9 internal/external + dhcp clients - wins

2009-02-08 Thread JeffH
Sorry if this is drifting a little from the group topic – if you know of a better place to post this question, please let me know. I’m trying to configure a small DHCP internal network, connected to a router connected to the internet. I want it so that internally, all DHCP systems are able to

manually generating tsig keys

2009-02-08 Thread Justin T Pryzby
ARM9.5 still mentions manual generation of TSIG data: https://www.isc.org/software/bind/documentation/arm95#tsig Is there any advtantage to using -keygen ? ISTR some mention of an algorithm used to minimize the possibility of collisions. Or is that true for any key used with HMAC? Justin

RE: Case For Microsoft DNS v. BIND 9 - Or Best Practices ForCoexisting

2009-02-08 Thread Vinny Abello
Baird, Josh wrote: Actually, yes, if you have dynamic DNS registration enabled on the client/host and server, an 'A' record will automatically be created in the AD zone. It needs to be registered in the domain first. Otherwise any system could mascarade as another system. Danny And

Re: Case For Microsoft DNS v. BIND 9 - Or Best Practices For Coexisting

2009-02-08 Thread steve
Microsoft DNS can work well, HOWEVER much time needs to be spent understanding its operations. This is a VERY long winded post, so I hope no one gets upset, I realize this is not the MS DNS group LOL I am going to assume, that you are running an Active Directory Domain that includes

Re: manually generating tsig keys

2009-02-08 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 20090206194146.ga24...@norchemlab.com, Justin T Pryzby writes: ARM9.5 still mentions manual generation of TSIG data: https://www.isc.org/software/bind/documentation/arm95#tsig Is there any advtantage to using -keygen ? It really depends on how you are going to use the

Re: possible noob question - @ CNAME?

2009-02-08 Thread Ben Croswell
You can not have a CNAME at the domain level. It is against RFC to have a CNAME and any other data at the same level of a given domain tree. i.e. the following is illegal wwwin CNAME www.blah.com wwwin MX 10 mail.blah.com This will cause BIND to throw the zone and not load it because it

Re: possible noob question - @ CNAME?

2009-02-08 Thread Mark Andrews
In message e4b42c39-914d-42be-9488-7ae0eba34...@r41g2000prr.googlegroups.com, RJValenta writes: forever ago, i set myself up with a solid bandwidth and static IPs and started to host websites for my friends their small businesses. basically, they covered the cost of my internet access. so

Re: Case For Microsoft DNS v. BIND 9 - Or Best Practices For Coexisting

2009-02-08 Thread Mark Andrews
One example in closing for ya, go try and get an RFC complient Bind server to respond to a request for name resoloution on a host that has an _ (underscore) in the name, MS allows this, and a zone transfer of this kinda stuff between and MS Server and a Bind server, can give you MUCH

Re: bind9 internal/external + dhcp clients - wins

2009-02-08 Thread Sten Carlsen
Certainly doable. I have had this running for some years now. I also have mail.myself.dk resolving to an internal address if I am on my internal network and to an external address if I am outside my network. I use bind with two views and dhcpd for internal addresses updating one view. Setup was

Re: Case For Microsoft DNS v. BIND 9 - Or Best Practices ForCoexisting

2009-02-08 Thread Danny Mayer
Vinny Abello wrote: Baird, Josh wrote: Actually, yes, if you have dynamic DNS registration enabled on the client/host and server, an 'A' record will automatically be created in the AD zone. It needs to be registered in the domain first. Otherwise any system could mascarade as another system.

RE: Case For Microsoft DNS v. BIND 9 - Or Best Practices ForCoexisting

2009-02-08 Thread Vinny Abello
-Original Message- From: Danny Mayer [mailto:ma...@gis.net] Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 8:32 PM To: Vinny Abello Cc: Baird, Josh; bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: Re: Case For Microsoft DNS v. BIND 9 - Or Best Practices ForCoexisting Vinny Abello wrote: Baird, Josh wrote:

Re: Case For Microsoft DNS v. BIND 9 - Or Best Practices ForCoexisting

2009-02-08 Thread Danny Mayer
Vinny Abello wrote: -Original Message- From: Danny Mayer [mailto:ma...@gis.net] Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 8:32 PM To: Vinny Abello Cc: Baird, Josh; bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: Re: Case For Microsoft DNS v. BIND 9 - Or Best Practices ForCoexisting Vinny Abello wrote:

RE: Case For Microsoft DNS v. BIND 9 - Or Best Practices ForCoexisting

2009-02-08 Thread Vinny Abello
-Original Message- From: Danny Mayer [mailto:ma...@gis.net] Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 9:57 PM To: Vinny Abello Cc: Baird, Josh; bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: Re: Case For Microsoft DNS v. BIND 9 - Or Best Practices ForCoexisting Vinny Abello wrote: -Original