RE: DNS Bulk Query Tool

2011-11-02 Thread Marco Bicca
Hi Gaurav, I would use dnsperf and the 1 million website list from Alexa: DNSPerf: Freebsd: http://www.freshports.org/dns/dnsperf Depending on your OS there are available ports too. Alexa's list: http://s3.amazonaws.com/alexa-static/top-1m.csv.zip Did that in the past and it worked pretty wel

DNS Bulk Query Tool

2011-11-02 Thread Gaurav Kansal
Dear All, I set up a new DNS Server using Bind 9.7 For meantime I open this server for the whole world. I wanna check how many queries it can handle. Is this any freeware available for checking this. Is there any tool available by which I can come to know after how much load my DNS will be do

Re: DNSSEC and forward zones

2011-11-02 Thread Chris Thompson
On Nov 2 2011, Jan-Piet Mens wrote: Note, the new .XXX TLD is included in that list. Does that mean it is or isn't safe for work? ;-) It depends on whether the XXX TLD acquires a signed delegation or not. (Presumably it should, as you wouldn't want to get the *wrong* porn ...) -- Chris Tho

Re: DNSSEC and forward zones

2011-11-02 Thread Bill Owens
On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 10:02:45AM -0400, wbr...@e1b.org wrote: > But it does provide some alternatives: > > .intranet > .internal > .private > .corp > .home > .lan > > But can we guarantee that they won't be approved as new public TLDs per > the new rules adopted this summer where anything can

Re: DNSSEC and forward zones

2011-11-02 Thread WBrown
Bill Owens wrote on 11/02/2011 09:26:07 AM: > I happened to be looking for some other details on mDNS yesterday > and noticed that the current draft version of the spec reserves .local: > > http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-cheshire-dnsext-multicastdns-14 >This document specifies that the DN

Re: DNSSEC and forward zones

2011-11-02 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> Note, the new .XXX TLD is included in that list. Does that mean it is or isn't safe for work? ;-) -JP ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.i

Re: DNSSEC and forward zones

2011-11-02 Thread Bill Owens
On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 08:45:31AM -0400, wbr...@e1b.org wrote: > Lyle wrote on 11/01/2011 04:19:18 PM: > > > Again, this has a disadvantage if they ever decide to make .internal a > > real internet domain name and some people frown upon this practice. Be > > sure you know what can go wrong. >

Re: DNSSEC and forward zones

2011-11-02 Thread /dev/rob0
On Wednesday 02 November 2011 08:00:55 Jan-Piet Mens wrote: > > Is there an IETF/ICANN reserved TLD for internal use? I've seen > > plenty of .loc and .local, but I haven't seen an RFC reserving .local is used in MDNS, but AFAIK the RFC is still a draft. > > it. RFC 2606 reserves .example, .inv

Re: DNSSEC and forward zones

2011-11-02 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> Is there an IETF/ICANN reserved TLD for internal use? I've seen plenty of > .loc and .local, but I haven't seen an RFC reserving it. RFC 2606 > reserves .example, .invalid, .localhost and .test but these don't seem > approriate. Not IETF/ICANN reserved, but ISO 3166 [1] reserves the follow

Re: DNSSEC and forward zones

2011-11-02 Thread WBrown
Lyle wrote on 11/01/2011 04:19:18 PM: > Again, this has a disadvantage if they ever decide to make .internal a > real internet domain name and some people frown upon this practice. Be > sure you know what can go wrong. Is there an IETF/ICANN reserved TLD for internal use? I've seen plenty of