How to identify a raw zone file

2011-12-01 Thread Mark Pettit
to a text format zonefile? I've looked at a few of them, and I noticed that all the ones I've seen start with the four-octet string 00 00 00 02. Is that sufficient? Mark Pettit Yahoo!, Inc. pet...@yahoo-inc.com ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org

rndc reconfig vs. rndc reload

2012-03-16 Thread Mark Pettit
I've read carefully through the BIND ARM and am still not sure of the answer to this, so I figured I'd ask on here. rndc reconfig causes BIND to re-load its config file, but unlike rndc reload, BIND will not scan the zone files it's mastering to see if there have been any updates. This is

Re: How to reset the serial number?

2012-03-26 Thread Mark Pettit
Did it reject the zone when you used a too-large serial number? If so then that explains why digging against the master doesn't show an updated serial. On Mar 26, 2012, at 11:53 AM, Carlos Ribas wrote: Hello, I was doing some tests with DNSSEC in that zone. I used one day of

Re: AEM Question

2012-04-09 Thread Mark Pettit
The release version of BIND 9.9.0 contains the 9.9 ARM. You can download a copy of it from my web page if you like: On Apr 9, 2012, at 11:01 AM, Manson, John wrote: Any idea when the ARM for 9.9.0 will be published? No mention on the ISC web site. Reference and FAQ The primary

Re: re-bind named to all interfaces

2012-04-12 Thread Mark Pettit
It probably has to do with BIND dropping privileges. If you run BIND with -u so it changes to an unprivileged user, then BIND may not be able to bind() to new interfaces created on your system. I use FreeBSD, and my solution was to do this every time I add a new interface: RESET=`sysctl -e

Re: journal rollforward failed: journal out of sync with zone

2012-04-12 Thread Mark Pettit
You don't necessarily have to get rid of the cron job to keep journal files. ixfr-from-differences is intentionally designed to allow you to arbitrarily replace the zone file and yet continue to keep your .jnl files. However, I too have run into rollforward errors with my use of

Re: Checking for zone expiration?

2012-05-21 Thread Mark Pettit
On May 21, 2012, at 2:02 PM, Mike Hoskins wrote: as usual there is more than one way to skin a cat... another network-based way that doesn't involve local mtime checks would be querying the master soa from your monitoring host, and then hitting each slave on port 8080 (or whatever) via

Re: BIND ignores changes in zonefiles

2012-06-15 Thread Mark Pettit
On Jun 14, 2012, at 5:54 AM, Marian Roess wrote: Thank you for your quick answer. You've possibly checked all this, but let me ask anyway: 1. Are you monitoring named logs when reload the zones? Any errors? Yes, I do. zone cs.uni-dortmund.de/IN: loaded serial 1121661332 2.

Re: Verify raw data within slaves on 9.9.x

2012-06-15 Thread Mark Pettit
If what you want is the basic functionality of cat, what's wrong with named-compilezone -with -some -options? On Jun 14, 2012, at 11:00 AM, Walter Smith wrote: So essentially if I'm scripting on a slave and would like to check-into-svn changes within any particular 'raw' zone - I'll still