Re: allow-update in global options (was Re: bind and certbot with dns-challenge)

2019-04-04 Thread Bob Harold
On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 7:08 PM Evan Hunt wrote: > On Tue, Apr 02, 2019 at 06:28:02PM +0200, Alan Clegg wrote: > > The answer to your question is: "someone at ISC". > > Oh, I'm willing to take the public blame here, Alan. It's not like the > commits don't have my name on them. > > The code the

Re: allow-update in global options (was Re: bind and certbot with dns-challenge)

2019-04-03 Thread Evan Hunt
On Tue, Apr 02, 2019 at 06:28:02PM +0200, Alan Clegg wrote: > The answer to your question is: "someone at ISC". Oh, I'm willing to take the public blame here, Alan. It's not like the commits don't have my name on them. The code the processes allow-update was written in an oddly circuitious

Re: allow-update in global options (was Re: bind and certbot with dns-challenge)

2019-04-02 Thread Alan Clegg
On 4/2/19 6:00 PM, Sam Wilson wrote: >> During a cleanup of other code (specifically named-checkconf), code was >> changed that enforced what was believed to have been the default >> previously: specifically, allow-update was only allowed in zone stanzas. > > Can I ask who believed it was

Re: allow-update in global options (was Re: bind and certbot with dns-challenge)

2019-04-02 Thread Sam Wilson
On 2019-03-17 20:37:56 +, Alan Clegg said: On 3/17/19 2:51 PM, Alan Clegg wrote: On 3/17/19 7:13 AM, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: Hello all, I am using "BIND 9.13.7 (Development Release) " on arch linux. Up to few days ago everything was fine using "certbot renew". I had "allow-update"

Re: allow-update in global options (was Re: bind and certbot with dns-challenge)

2019-03-24 Thread Evan Hunt
On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 03:55:39PM -0400, Bob Harold wrote: > On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 5:26 PM Grant Taylor via bind-users < > > As I was reading this, I found myself wondering if there is (I'll go > > look in a few minutes) an ability to have BIND dump the config it has > > read in. > > I use: >

Re: allow-update in global options (was Re: bind and certbot with dns-challenge)

2019-03-22 Thread Bob Harold
On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 5:26 PM Grant Taylor via bind-users < bind-users@lists.isc.org> wrote: > On 3/18/19 1:32 PM, Victoria Risk wrote: > > - We have decided to treat this change as a regression bug, and to fix > > it in 9.14.1. Alan argued that we should hold 9.14.0 and fix it there: > >

Re: allow-update in global options (was Re: bind and certbot with dns-challenge)

2019-03-18 Thread Stephan von Krawczynski
On Mon, 18 Mar 2019 12:32:56 -0700 Victoria Risk wrote: > Regarding allow-update: > [...] > Regards, > > Vicky Risk > Product Manager for BIND Thank you for this very professional statement and for noting my suggestion regarding "zone templates". Generally I would have voted for Alans' way of

Re: allow-update in global options (was Re: bind and certbot with dns-challenge)

2019-03-18 Thread Victoria Risk
Regarding allow-update: - We do try to avoid ‘breaking existing deployments’ with this sort of change. We do also have to balance maintaining existing deployments with making improvements in security and usability. - When we ‘clarified’ behavior of BIND in 9.13.5 preventing the use of

Re: allow-update in global options (was Re: bind and certbot with dns-challenge)

2019-03-18 Thread Stephan von Krawczynski
On Mon, 18 Mar 2019 12:06:57 -0400 Bob Harold wrote: >>[...] > Thanks for the explanation, and for asking for input. > And thanks for maintaining BIND, we depend on it. > > My group manages about 3000 zones. > In my opinion, 'everything' should be inherited, to make the configuration > as simple

Re: allow-update in global options (was Re: bind and certbot with dns-challenge)

2019-03-18 Thread Bob Harold
On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 4:38 PM Alan Clegg wrote: > On 3/17/19 2:51 PM, Alan Clegg wrote: > > On 3/17/19 7:13 AM, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > >> Hello all, > >> > >> I am using "BIND 9.13.7 (Development Release) " on arch > linux. Up > >> to few days ago everything was fine using "certbot

Re: allow-update in global options (was Re: bind and certbot with dns-challenge)

2019-03-18 Thread G.W. Haywood via bind-users
Hello again, On Mon, 18 Mar 2019, Alan Clegg wrote: Take the personal attacks elsewhere if you don't mind. My post was not intended to be a personal attack. I did explain that it was sent in more haste than I'd have liked, and perhaps it might have been better if I'd have left it until I

Re: allow-update in global options (was Re: bind and certbot with dns-challenge)

2019-03-18 Thread Grant Taylor via bind-users
On 3/18/19 7:57 AM, Alan Clegg wrote: Let me say that I didn't mean to disparage or discount small operators. I didn't take anything you said as disparaging or as if it was trying to discount small operators. You asked what seemed to me as legitimate questions. I tried to provide what I

Re: allow-update in global options (was Re: bind and certbot with dns-challenge)

2019-03-18 Thread Karl Auer
On Mon, 2019-03-18 at 09:57 -0400, Alan Clegg wrote: > Having said that, my $DAYJOB revolves (just a bit) around doing > BIND/DHCP stuff all day long, so I may have a leg up on being able to > twiddle with my configurations a bit more.  ;-) Put that leg down, young man, and stop twiddling with

Re: allow-update in global options (was Re: bind and certbot with dns-challenge)

2019-03-18 Thread Alan Clegg
On 3/17/19 10:43 PM, Grant Taylor via bind-users wrote: > On 3/17/19 6:31 PM, Alan Clegg wrote: >> The change was an unintended consequence ending up in what was thought >> to have been the correct behavior all along, so.. Yes. >> >> How many zones are you authoritative for? > I think most people

RE: allow-update in global options (was Re: bind and certbot with dns-challenge)

2019-03-18 Thread Charles Elliott
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Re: allow-update in global options (was Re: bind and certbot with dns-challenge)

2019-03-18 Thread Stephan von Krawczynski
On Mon, 18 Mar 2019 11:37:50 + Tony Finch wrote: > Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > > > > But to us it was clearly time to at least present the idea to configure > > zones based on a user-defined default zone entry. > > Catalog zones have that kind of structure: there are options at the

Re: allow-update in global options (was Re: bind and certbot with dns-challenge)

2019-03-18 Thread Alan Clegg
On 3/18/19 6:53 AM, G.W. Haywood via bind-users wrote: > I've been reading this exchange with growing frustration, and I hope a > forthright response will be excused - especially since I now have to > dash out to the hospital so I don't have more time to work on this. > > On Mon, 18 Mar 2019, or

Re: allow-update in global options (was Re: bind and certbot with dns-challenge)

2019-03-18 Thread Tony Finch
Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > > But to us it was clearly time to at least present the idea to configure > zones based on a user-defined default zone entry. Catalog zones have that kind of structure: there are options at the level of the whole catalog which individual zones can override.

Re: allow-update in global options (was Re: bind and certbot with dns-challenge)

2019-03-18 Thread G.W. Haywood via bind-users
Hi there, I've been reading this exchange with growing frustration, and I hope a forthright response will be excused - especially since I now have to dash out to the hospital so I don't have more time to work on this. On Mon, 18 Mar 2019, or possibly earlier, Alan Clegg wrote: The change was

Re: allow-update in global options (was Re: bind and certbot with dns-challenge)

2019-03-18 Thread Stephan von Krawczynski
Please let me re-phrase the above suggestion to: zone-default "default1" { type master; allow-update { 127.0.0.1; }; }; zone-default "default-slave" { type slave; masters { 10.0.0.1; 10.0.0.2; }; }; zone "mytest.domain" { default1; file "a_zone_file_for_mytest.domain"; }; zone

Re: allow-update in global options (was Re: bind and certbot with dns-challenge)

2019-03-18 Thread Stephan von Krawczynski
Ok, first let me thank Alan et al for clearing up the initial topic and making the problem more visible than me was able to. Just for the papers, we are hosting some hundred domains, and of course we are able to handle sed. We can change the config regarding this issue. But to us it was clearly

Re: allow-update in global options (was Re: bind and certbot with dns-challenge)

2019-03-17 Thread Grant Taylor via bind-users
On 3/17/19 6:31 PM, Alan Clegg wrote: The change was an unintended consequence ending up in what was thought to have been the correct behavior all along, so.. Yes. How many zones are you authoritative for? I think most people on this list have forgotten how to count as low as the number of

Re: allow-update in global options (was Re: bind and certbot with dns-challenge)

2019-03-17 Thread Alan Clegg
On 3/17/19 5:52 PM, Grant Taylor via bind-users wrote: > On 3/17/19 2:37 PM, Alan Clegg wrote: >> It turns out that this series of changes, taken as a whole, removed >> allow-update as a global option. > > That sounds like either an unintended consequence -or- a change in > anticipated ~>

Re: allow-update in global options (was Re: bind and certbot with dns-challenge)

2019-03-17 Thread Grant Taylor via bind-users
On 3/17/19 5:48 PM, @lbutlr wrote: I disagree. I'd prefer the best decision be made by consensus of the contributors rather than the community at large. I agree that the decision should be made by the contributors / maintainers. I'm saying that I think they should have data / information /

Re: allow-update in global options (was Re: bind and certbot with dns-challenge)

2019-03-17 Thread @lbutlr
On 17 Mar 2019, at 15:52, Grant Taylor via bind-users wrote: > If the consensus is that the new behavior is desired, I would hope ~> expect > for a survey of the BIND user community like I've seen in the past about > removing / significantly altering functionality. I disagree. I'd prefer the

Re: allow-update in global options (was Re: bind and certbot with dns-challenge)

2019-03-17 Thread Timothe Litt
Data points: I saw another report of this issue on gitlab - #913 just after my previous note.  It indicated that a distributions initial configuration breaks with the change.  I see that it has been updated by Alan since. I checked my configuration files. I use allow-update-forwarding at the

Re: allow-update in global options (was Re: bind and certbot with dns-challenge)

2019-03-17 Thread Grant Taylor via bind-users
On 3/17/19 2:37 PM, Alan Clegg wrote: It turns out that this series of changes, taken as a whole, removed allow-update as a global option. That sounds like either an unintended consequence -or- a change in anticipated ~> expected behavior by some people. The question now becomes: Is there

allow-update in global options (was Re: bind and certbot with dns-challenge)

2019-03-17 Thread Alan Clegg
On 3/17/19 2:51 PM, Alan Clegg wrote: > On 3/17/19 7:13 AM, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I am using "BIND 9.13.7 (Development Release) " on arch linux. Up >> to few days ago everything was fine using "certbot renew". I had >> "allow-update" in nameds' global section,