User wanting to use a .local domain to host DNS

2012-11-14 Thread King, Harold Clyde (Hal)
I'm a bit confused by a user request. I think he is trying to keep some hosts on the private side of DNS, but he wants to use a DNS name like host.sub.local. I do not know of the use of the .local TLD except in bonjure. Can anyone shed some light on the use of the .local TLD? -- Hal King -

Re: User wanting to use a .local domain to host DNS

2012-11-14 Thread Tony Finch
King, Harold Clyde (Hal) h...@utk.edu wrote: I'm a bit confused by a user request. I think he is trying to keep some hosts on the private side of DNS, but he wants to use a DNS name like host.sub.local. I do not know of the use of the .local TLD except in bonjure. Can anyone shed some light

Re: User wanting to use a .local domain to host DNS

2012-11-14 Thread John Miller
Hey there Hal, It doesn't look like .local is officially reserved (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2606), but .localdomain definitely is. John John Miller Systems Engineer Brandeis University 781-736-4619 johnm...@brandeis.edu On 11/14/2012 10:02 AM, King, Harold Clyde (Hal) wrote: I'm a bit

Re: User wanting to use a .local domain to host DNS

2012-11-14 Thread Kevin Darcy
The .local TLD is reserved for link-local names, in the context of multicast DNS (mDNS), however, I don't think mDNS has progressed beyond the Internet Draft stage of the IETF Standards Track process. See http://www.multicastdns.org for latest updates. It would be imprudent to use .local for

Re: User wanting to use a .local domain to host DNS

2012-11-14 Thread Novosielski, Ryan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/14/2012 10:09 AM, Tony Finch wrote: King, Harold Clyde (Hal) h...@utk.edu wrote: I'm a bit confused by a user request. I think he is trying to keep some hosts on the private side of DNS, but he wants to use a DNS name like host.sub.local.

Re: User wanting to use a .local domain to host DNS

2012-11-14 Thread Kevin Darcy
On 11/14/2012 10:08 AM, Tony Finch wrote: King, Harold Clyde (Hal) h...@utk.edu wrote: I'm a bit confused by a user request. I think he is trying to keep some hosts on the private side of DNS, but he wants to use a DNS name like host.sub.local. I do not know of the use of the .local TLD except

rsa_sign.c:263

2012-11-14 Thread Daniel Ryšlink
Hello, I started to see a flood of these errors after upgrading to the latest BIND 9.9.2: 14-Nov-2012 17:14:15.304 general: warning: RSA_verify failed 14-Nov-2012 17:14:15.304 general: info: error:04077068:rsa routines:RSA_verify:bad

Re: User wanting to use a .local domain to host DNS

2012-11-14 Thread SM
At 07:15 14-11-2012, John Miller wrote: It doesn't look like .local is officially reserved (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2606), but .localdomain definitely is. .localdomain is not reserved. Regards, -sm ___ Please visit

Re: User wanting to use a .local domain to host DNS

2012-11-14 Thread John Miller
Thanks for the catch--guess I was writing a little too quickly this morning. .localhost is reserved; .localdomain isn't. John On 11/14/2012 11:17 AM, SM wrote: At 07:15 14-11-2012, John Miller wrote: It doesn't look like .local is officially reserved (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2606),

Re: User wanting to use a .local domain to host DNS

2012-11-14 Thread Phil Mayers
On 14/11/12 15:39, Kevin Darcy wrote: I stopped reading as soon as I saw the requirement to add a NetBIOS name, being overpowered by the stench of obsolescence. Does anyone As per our recent thread, there's load of (recent, modern) stuff that still uses NetBIOS. Sadly. actually run 2000

Re: User wanting to use a .local domain to host DNS

2012-11-14 Thread Phil Mayers
On 14/11/12 15:02, King, Harold Clyde (Hal) wrote: I'm a bit confused by a user request. I think he is trying to keep some hosts on the private side of DNS, but he wants to use a DNS name like host.sub.local. I do not know of the use of the .local TLD except in bonjure. Can anyone shed some

Re: User wanting to use a .local domain to host DNS

2012-11-14 Thread btb
On 2012.11.14 10.02, King, Harold Clyde (Hal) wrote: I'm a bit confused by a user request. I think he is trying to keep some hosts on the private side of DNS, but he wants to use a DNS name like host.sub.local. I do not know of the use of the .local TLD except in bonjure. Can anyone shed some

Bind 9.9.2 ADB Question

2012-11-14 Thread Manson, John
Just upgraded to 9.9.2 today and am seeing the following in syslog for the first time: Nov 14 15:08:58 local@mercury named[2920]: [ID 873579 daemon.info] adb: grow_names to 6143 starting Nov 14 15:08:58 local@mercury named[2920]: [ID 873579 daemon.info] adb: grow_names finished I gather this

Re: User wanting to use a .local domain to host DNS

2012-11-14 Thread Sten Carlsen
On 14/11/12 17:50, btb wrote: On 2012.11.14 10.02, King, Harold Clyde (Hal) wrote: I'm a bit confused by a user request. I think he is trying to keep some hosts on the private side of DNS, but he wants to use a DNS name like host.sub.local. I do not know of the use of the .local TLD except in