Re: "if exists host-name" for IPv6 DDNS?

2011-09-27 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> > '_' is an illegal character in hostnames in the DNS... > > Yeah, I got hosed by that one by a consultant. MCSE per chance? [Sorry; couldn't resist.] -JP ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe fro

RE: dnssec question. confused.

2011-09-27 Thread Marc Lampo
Hello, 1) the dig command, as shown, does not ask an authoritative name server for eeoc.gov. but rather addresses a locally configured caching name server (10.120.11.107). (which may explain the difference in size - 1726 bytes - as opposed to the 3918 bytes of Doug Barton) ((some data

Re: dnssec question. confused.

2011-09-27 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <798e3caf2fcc264481d8f75fb3d0bfd91b538...@mailmbx10.mail.la.gov>, Br ad Bendily writes: > > When trying the DNSSEC check command from: > https://www.dns-oarc.net/oarc/services/replysizetest > > behind our corporate firewall, I get: > rst.x476.rs.dns-oarc.net. > rst.x485.x476.rs.dns-oa

Re: "if exists host-name" for IPv6 DDNS?

2011-09-27 Thread WBrown
Matthew wrote on 09/23/2011 03:21:06 AM: > On 23/09/2011 00:39, Joachim Tingvold wrote: > > Or replace :: with _, > > '_' is an illegal character in hostnames in the DNS... Yeah, I got hosed by that one by a consultant. How about replace all : with a -. :: becomes --. No rule against that,

RE: Compelling Reason for Deploying DNSSEC

2011-09-27 Thread Brad Bendily
Maybe some of the links mentioned here will help you... https://www.dnssec-deployment.org/index.php/deployment-case-studies/dnssec-why-threats/ bb > -Original Message- > From: bind-users-bounces+brad.bendily=la@lists.isc.org > [mailto:bind-users-bounces+brad.bendily=la@lists.is

Re: dnssec question. confused.

2011-09-27 Thread Doug Barton
On 09/27/2011 13:45, Brad Bendily wrote: > dig +dnssec eeoc.gov Try that again with +notcp. FYI, on a "clean" network the response I get to that query is 3,918 bytes. hth, Doug -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadt

dnssec question. confused.

2011-09-27 Thread Brad Bendily
When trying the DNSSEC check command from: https://www.dns-oarc.net/oarc/services/replysizetest behind our corporate firewall, I get: rst.x476.rs.dns-oarc.net. rst.x485.x476.rs.dns-oarc.net. rst.x490.x485.x476.rs.dns-oarc.net. "Tested at 2011-09-27 20:32:34 UTC" "205.172.49.177 sent EDNS buffer s

Re: updating Bind made it slower

2011-09-27 Thread michoski
On 9/27/11 1:15 PM, "Warren Kumari" wrote: > On Sep 27, 2011, at 3:52 PM, Tom Schmitt wrote: >> I tested "rndc reload" against "rndc reconfig" on five differrent servers, >> Solaris and Linux, 9.8.0 and 9.4.1. On all servers the same result: >> Both commands take roughly the same amount of time! S

Re: updating Bind made it slower

2011-09-27 Thread Warren Kumari
On Sep 27, 2011, at 3:52 PM, Tom Schmitt wrote: > >> In this case "rndc reconfig" should be sufficient. This command tells >> BIND to re-read config file and load all new zones without touching >> any previously loaded zones. > > This was my understanding (after reading the text from rndc) as w

Re: allow-transfer not covering ixfr requests?

2011-09-27 Thread Tom Schmitt
> > The odd part is that both NS3 and NS4 weren't able to request ixfr > transfers. > Shouldn't allow-transfer cover these kind of transfer requests as well? > First: Do you have statements "provide ixfr;" and "request ixfr;" in your config? Second: To do a ixfr a server is first sending a

Re: updating Bind made it slower

2011-09-27 Thread Tom Schmitt
> In this case "rndc reconfig" should be sufficient. This command tells > BIND to re-read config file and load all new zones without touching > any previously loaded zones. This was my understanding (after reading the text from rndc) as well. But to my surprise: I tested "rndc reload" against "r

Re: servfail are not cached!

2011-09-27 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
On Tue Sep 27 2011 at 17:32:22 CEST, Issam Harrathi wrote: > and you say here it's cached for 30 seconds?! Evan said: > and we've discussed implementing it in BIND9, but haven't had time yet. In other words, they are *not* cached in BIND9. -JP __

Re: servfail are not cached!

2011-09-27 Thread Ben Croswell
Actually he said the DNS protocol allows for it and ISC had been considering adding it. -Ben Croswell On Sep 27, 2011 11:38 AM, "Issam Harrathi" wrote: > As i test it's not cached at all, and you say here it's cached for 30 > seconds?! > i'm using 9.7.2-P3. > > 2011/9/27 Evan Hunt > >> > I disco

Re: servfail are not cached!

2011-09-27 Thread Issam Harrathi
As i test it's not cached at all, and you say here it's cached for 30 seconds?! i'm using 9.7.2-P3. 2011/9/27 Evan Hunt > > I discover that servfail are not cached. is it normal? > > Yes, that's normal. > > Temporary negative caching of SERVFAIL responses for a limited period (up > to 30 seconds

Re: servfail are not cached!

2011-09-27 Thread Evan Hunt
> I discover that servfail are not cached. is it normal? Yes, that's normal. Temporary negative caching of SERVFAIL responses for a limited period (up to 30 seconds, if I recall correctly) is permitted by the DNS protocol, and we've discussed implementing it in BIND9, but haven't had time yet. -

allow-transfer not covering ixfr requests?

2011-09-27 Thread Torsten Segner
I recently observered a rather strange phaenomenon. By accident I have configured a nameserver to allow queries from NS1 and NS2 and allow transfers from NS3 und NS4. So far so good... Naturally NS1 and NS2 could do all kinds of queries but no zone transfers. NS3 and NS4 weren't allowed to ask

Re: updating Bind made it slower

2011-09-27 Thread Peter Andreev
2011/9/27 Tom Schmitt : > > >> It is not clear in your question, are you use "rndc reload" or "rndc >> reload zone.name"? Latter will be faster in case if you change one or >> few zones in one pass of your updating-script. > > I generate from my database the complete named.conf, especially includin

servfail are not cached!

2011-09-27 Thread Issam Harrathi
I discover that servfail are not cached. is it normal? explanation: I have a cache-recursing server and i try www.blabla.com (which exist) and then i stop the dns server of www.blabla.com. Then (after ttl expired) from my cache-recusing server i try dig @0 www.blabla.com and i receive a servfail, a

Re: updating Bind made it slower

2011-09-27 Thread Tom Schmitt
> It is not clear in your question, are you use "rndc reload" or "rndc > reload zone.name"? Latter will be faster in case if you change one or > few zones in one pass of your updating-script. I generate from my database the complete named.conf, especially including new zones and then trigger a

Re: updating Bind made it slower

2011-09-27 Thread Peter Andreev
2011/9/27 Tom Schmitt : > >> > I just updated a couple of my DNS-servers from the rather old version >> > 9.4.1 to a newer version 9.8.0-P4. >> > >> > After this I have problem with outages. Looking into it, I found that >> > the time for a "rndc reload" has nearly doubled! >> >> This has been poin

Re: updating Bind made it slower

2011-09-27 Thread Tom Schmitt
> > I just updated a couple of my DNS-servers from the rather old version > > 9.4.1 to a newer version 9.8.0-P4. > > > > After this I have problem with outages. Looking into it, I found that > > the time for a "rndc reload" has nearly doubled! > > This has been pointed out to me before; do you re

Re: DiG "unexpected source" with a Subnet-Router anycast address

2011-09-27 Thread François-Xavier Le Bail
--- On Mon, 9/12/11, Kevin Darcy wrote: > You should either a) pursue with your network hardware > vendor why its device is responding to a query to the SRAA > with a different source address, thus breaking the rules of > DNS resolution, or b) select a working resolver address in > the Global Uni