Re: Problem resolving domain

2020-01-27 Thread Barry Margolin
gure something? I thought both nameservers should be questioned > and the first working result be used, or not? Not quite. It performs failover if the first nameserver doesn't respond. But if it gets a response, it uses the response, even if it reports an error.

Re: Using different OS for Master and Slaves

2019-11-13 Thread Barry Margolin
uld be solved with mixing: I suspect the pain he was referring to is not really DNS-specific, but just due to having to manage servers with different operating systems. This means using a more diverse set of management tools, different configuration syntax, etc. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA __

Re: CNAME as an alias to a TXT record

2019-11-06 Thread Barry Margolin
t type-specific. It simply makes one name an alias for another name. If the target name has a TXT record, then you'll get that when you look up TXT for the CNAME. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/list

Re: Proper Way to Configure a Domain which never sends emails

2019-08-20 Thread Barry Margolin
's a common assumption that mail is sent from a domain that can receive mail. Even email that says "Don't reply to this" usually comes from an account at a domain that can receive mail; they just ignore that mailbox. > > > > A common practice is to point the MX record to ".&

Re: Proper Way to Configure a Domain which never sends emails

2019-08-19 Thread Barry Margolin
ld anybody > help me with this? A common practice is to point the MX record to ".". -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-use

Re: A policy for removing named.conf options.

2019-06-13 Thread Barry Margolin
I'm not sure how effective this will be. I suspect most people don't check the logs routinely, only when something goes wrong. Is it really much of a hassle to leave the obsolete options in the parser, but just ignore them? -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA ___

Re: BIND ignores queries from specific privileged source ports

2019-06-10 Thread Barry Margolin
e well known source port of protocols that are > abuse prone: Why would the original source port be close to any of these low port numbers? Source ports should normally be ephemeral ports. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA ___ Please visit https:

Re: Question about Delegation/forwarder

2019-04-27 Thread Barry Margolin
y question is, While I have the delegation is in place (even though it is > useless), is there a way to override Delegation (and possibly replace with > forwarders) ? Forwarders are only used when recursing. If recursion is disabled, forwarders are useless.

Re: Help: BIND _ Recursive query

2019-03-09 Thread Barry Margolin
se of "forward only", but what happens if > there are forwarders defined and both "recursion yes" (default) and > "forward first" (default) are specified? It's set for any type of forwarding, it doesn't matter whether it's "only" or "first&quo

Re: Help: BIND _ Recursive query

2019-03-03 Thread Barry Margolin
ursive query. This is the normal way that host resolver libraries work, and it's what BIND does when you configure "forwarders". -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from

Re: repeated 16 hour interval spike in authoritative PTR lookups

2019-01-09 Thread Barry Margolin
), then when you bumped it back up they all timed out the old records at about the same time, and ever since they've been refreshing at the same times. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinf

Re: Reverse lookup for classless networks

2018-12-27 Thread Barry Margolin
he name. There's no way for it to know automatically that different "w" values are delegated to different servers. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this lis

Re: dig @ipv6-address

2018-11-29 Thread Barry Margolin
t; Why there were different IPs in the command and the output of my > first example .. I have no idea. I somehow mixed up my notices. > > Sorry again. The last : in the netstat output is separating the IP address from the port number -- :53 means i

Re: forwarder selection logic by bind9

2018-11-20 Thread Barry Margolin
wish NOT to receive e-mail advertising to this address. > >> Varovanie: na tuto adresu chcem NEDOSTAVAT akukolvek reklamnu postu. > >> They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary > >> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 &g

Re: conflicting subdomain delegation

2018-11-15 Thread Barry Margolin
done on a centos7). > > > > dig +trace follows the returned delegations. > > > > > Any ideas? > > > Thanks! > > > ___ > > > Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to > > uns

Re: Rewrite/Override QTYPE with RPZ

2018-11-08 Thread Barry Margolin
In article , Tom wrote: > Hi all > Is there a way to override/rewrite QTYPE (ex. MX) with RPZ? If no, is > this planned in future releases of BIND? What would be the point? If a query is for MX, and you return A instead, the client won't be able to do anything with it. -- Barry

Re: Modifying data files while named is reloading

2018-10-18 Thread Barry Margolin
u're moving within the same filesystem, this is an atomic rename operation. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org http

Re: Question about visibility

2018-10-11 Thread Barry Margolin
In article , Dennis Clarke wrote: > On 10/11/2018 03:21 PM, Leonardo Rodrigues wrote: > > Em 11/10/18 16:13, Barry Margolin escreveu: > >> > >> If you accidentally, or someone else intentionally, create a link to the > >> site that uses the IP and put

Re: Question about visibility

2018-10-11 Thread Barry Margolin
someone else intentionally, create a link to the site that uses the IP and put it on a web page that Google can get to, it will probably find the page. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsub

Re: Issues configuring delegated subdomain zone

2018-09-13 Thread Barry Margolin
il.midominio.principal.hosting.com. > sb1 IN A xxx.xxx.xxx.52 > sb2 IN A xxx.xxx.xxx.53 > www IN A xxx.xxx.xxx.53 > mail IN A xxx.xxx.xxx.53 > webmail IN CNAME mail > * IN A xxx.xxx.xxx.53 Not related to the problem, but the comments at the top don't accurately describe this file.

Re: SRV record not working

2018-08-18 Thread Barry Margolin
When it reports errors, it can be difficult to tell specifically what the actual error was. One example I can think of is that for some reason it expects the nameserver to be able to reverse-resolve its own IP. If it can't, it reports this as an error, and you might think that it's reporting an e

Re: Queries regarding forwarders

2018-08-08 Thread Barry Margolin
-servers.net > IPv6 address = 2001:501:b1f9::30 > ttl = 163960 (1 day 21 hours 32 mins 40 secs) > -> d.gtld-servers.net > internet address = 192.31.80.30 > ttl = 77579 (21 hours 32 mins 59 secs) > > > Non-authoritative answer: > Name:

Re: Stopping name server abuse

2018-06-26 Thread Barry Margolin
main registrar is the place to go, I expect most of them have standard procedures for exactly this problem. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users

Re: Stopping name server abuse

2018-06-25 Thread Barry Margolin
servers. NXDOMAIN responses are cached, it's one hit and then nothing for a while. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bi

Re: Stopping name server abuse

2018-06-25 Thread Barry Margolin
t device. An upstream firewall might already be parsing it, so telling it not to pass some of them through could be relatively cheap. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe

Re: Stopping name server abuse

2018-06-24 Thread Barry Margolin
In article , jo...@hasig.de wrote: > hi, > why dont you just delete the zones? That won't stop the queries from coming to the server. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsub

Re: Timeout and SERVFAIL

2018-05-30 Thread Barry Margolin
In article , Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > Use longer expire times if you expect to experience this kind of problems > more often. Who EXPECTS to be down longer than a week? :) -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA ___ Please visit

Re: Odd behavior on a secondary server

2018-03-22 Thread Barry Margolin
w of any better way to records that Exactly right. Whenever it successfully refreshes a zone, it updates the file's modification time. This is how it implements the expiration time, by comparing the current time with the file timestamp. It could keep the refresh time in memory, but that would be lost

Re: questions on allow-query

2018-02-21 Thread Barry Margolin
As a result, all the other customers who use these caching servers continue to get the obsolete version of this customer's domains. When I worked at an ISP a couple of decades ago, I wrote a script that periodically checked the delegations of all the domains w

Re: Minimum TTL?

2018-02-10 Thread Barry Margolin
In article <mailman.457.1518214391.749.bind-us...@lists.isc.org>, Grant Taylor <gtay...@tnetconsulting.net> wrote: > On 02/09/2018 09:37 AM, Barry Margolin wrote: > > As long as you understand the implications of what you're doing? > > I don't think my level of u

Re: Minimum TTL?

2018-02-09 Thread Barry Margolin
hy of cooperation. An ISP could also drop every other packet, and say "that's my problem, not yours", but we wouldn't consider that to be a reasonable way to run a network. IMHO you should at least be transparent about it, so your us

Re: Minimum TTL?

2018-02-09 Thread Barry Margolin
nd the implications of what you're doing? The zone owner may be using short TTLs to implement load balancing and/or quick failover. If you extend the TTLs, your users may experience poor performance when they try to go to these sites using out-of-date cache entries. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA _

Re: Minimum TTL?

2018-02-08 Thread Barry Margolin
echanism. I think Google Public DNS does this. So they obey TTL when deciding when to try to refresh the cache, but will continue returning whatever they've cached if necessary. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.

Re: Max slaves limit?

2017-12-18 Thread Barry Margolin
most responses don't fit in the traditional 500 byte UDP packet, and EDNS0 buffer size is usually used rather than switching to TCP. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe

Re: Max slaves limit?

2017-12-17 Thread Barry Margolin
, but they don't happen very often (only when the zone changes). To avoid all slaves hammering the master at the same time, NOTIFY messages are staggered after a change is loaded. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/ma

Re: DNSSEC validation without current time

2017-12-15 Thread Barry Margolin
I think the issue is that he needs to resolve the hostname of the NTP server. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.

Re: Email & PTR Issues

2017-11-08 Thread Barry Margolin
st IP has reverse DNS that resolves to c-71-192-114-133.hsd1.ma.comcast.net. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-user

Re: Differences Between Recursion Desired and Recursion Available

2017-10-08 Thread Barry Margolin
should the result of a query depend on coincidences of history of the server? Cache is meant for performance improvement, but it shouldn't affect the semantics. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/lis

Re: Differences Between Recursion Desired and Recursion Available

2017-10-06 Thread Barry Margolin
rver should simply not recurse. It answers with whatever it has in its cache or authoritative data. If it has the answer, it sends that; otherwise, if it has referral data, it sends that. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA ___ Please visit https://lis

Re: edns responses not sent by DNS Server

2017-05-30 Thread Barry Margolin
client is supposed to retry with TCP. The problem with sending a partial Answer Section is that there's no way for the client to know if the omitted answers are important. So it has to retry anyway. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA ___ Please v

Re: DNS forwarding

2017-05-18 Thread Barry Margolin
webserver*, I can not access. Gives resolution > error. For any other site, for example, google.com, I can access. > > I'm not finding the problem. Any idea? Is this server configured to be authoriative for your domain? Does it have delegation records for the subdomains? It won't follow f

Re: Difference between delegation and forward zone

2017-03-06 Thread Barry Margolin
there are no delegation records for the subdomain, the parent server believes it's authoritative for them, despite having forwarders configured. Forwarding is generally only useful on resolvers, not authoritative servers. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA ___

Re: Bind master keeps saying it is not authoritative

2017-03-03 Thread Barry Margolin
gt; > zone "in.acv.orion.education.gouv.fr" { > > type slave; > > file "/etc/named/in.acv.orion.education.gouv.fr.db"; > > masters {172.29.16.135; }; > > }; > > zone "." IN { > > type hint; > > file &quo

Re: Redirect only second and third level domains

2017-02-24 Thread Barry Margolin
domain. But a wildcard in the root domain doesn't just rewrite for NXDOMAIN, it rewrites *everything* that doesn't have a delegation. So even if you could somehow limit the number of levels it processes, it still wouldn't do what you want. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA __

Re: bind 9 goes rogue and revert zone information

2017-02-07 Thread Barry Margolin
e. > This happens during the night, usually around 20h EST. > > This zone has a serial of 3017020401 (yes, I typo the 3 somewhere in the > past). > When it reverts its zone information, it goes back to 3016060101. It sounds to me like there's a cron job restoring the zone from a ba

Re: The DDOS attack on DYN & RRL ?

2016-11-01 Thread Barry Margolin
amai's Global Traffic Management). These services can't easily update each other. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-user

Re: The DDOS attack on DYN & RRL ?

2016-11-01 Thread Barry Margolin
enough big customers to demand this that they'll change their policies. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org

Re: The DDOS attack on DYN & RRL ?

2016-10-31 Thread Barry Margolin
even sure if Dyn offers caching DNS). I heard that the impact of the attack was even narrower than just the US, it was mostly eastern US. That suggests some things about the granularity of Dyn's anycast network and the distribution of the Mirai botnet. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA ___

Re: view problem

2016-10-18 Thread Barry Margolin
zones but mobile clients (don't have > vpn client) needs to access to all zones exception vpn (but can use FQDN) > > any idea? If there are zones that both sets of clients should see, you have to duplicate them in both views. Overlapping views don't do this aut

Re: How to request ixfr updates against public ip directly instead of unicast ip in bind

2016-10-13 Thread Barry Margolin
irectly with public ip of > >master instead of unicast ip. > > I don't get it. What do you mean by "unicast" and "public" IP? My guess was that he's doing Anycast DNS for his public IP, and the unicast address is the real address that the router forwards to. Or he'

Re: How to request ixfr updates against public ip directly instead of unicast ip in bind

2016-10-12 Thread Barry Margolin
d of unicast ip. It uses whatever address is in the "master" statement in named.conf. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@

Re: R: Minimal responses and speeding up queries

2016-09-22 Thread Barry Margolin
in the Additional section with records related to the ones in the Answer section. If the client doesn't already have those records cached, it will need to make an additional query to get them. So instead of one query that returns everything the client needs, it needs to make two queries. -- Barry

Re: adding second zone

2016-09-22 Thread Barry Margolin
LAN1 None of this has anything to do with BIND zones. You can serve multiple zones on the same nameserver IP. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: adding zone forwards without restart

2016-09-22 Thread Barry Margolin
e. It shouldn't flush the entire cache, but it would certainly make sense to flush entries within a forwarding zone that's modified. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this l

Re: Need of caching on bind server

2016-08-26 Thread Barry Margolin
w not reachable? > > There should be some way, this should not happen > > [P.S: I was trying a web link yesterday, and i got into this issue, but I was > still able to open the cached web page link 2 days ago] Caching web pages has nothing

Re: Need of caching on bind server

2016-08-25 Thread Barry Margolin
nt clients look up the same name they can be returned from cache. For example, consider all the thousands of lookups for things like google.com, twitter.com, etc. that an ISP receives every second. If they didn't cache these responses, DNS traffic might rival YouTube (OK, that's an exaggeration).

Re: Query on Bind Operations

2016-08-22 Thread Barry Margolin
time sent in response by Bind server for Positive Responses? That's the only place where it can be used. The authoritative server doesn't have the records in cache, it's loaded permanently. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA ___ Please visit https://lists

Re: Selective forwarding from an internal only name server

2016-08-17 Thread Barry Margolin
udflare's method is "RFC-compliant", but what MS is doing with sharepoint.com is not. > > - Kevin > > -Original Message- > From: bind-users [mailto:bind-users-boun...@lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of Barry &g

Re: Selective forwarding from an internal only name server

2016-08-17 Thread Barry Margolin
doesn't seem valid to begin with. The .COM zone has delegation NS records for sharepoint.com. Having a CNAME record for the same name is wrong. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsub

Re: weird transfer-source problems with one DNS node

2016-07-18 Thread Barry Margolin
es be transforming it at a lower level? -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: Sending extra info in bind dns query packet

2016-07-14 Thread Barry Margolin
You should check the archives. > > -JP Weren't the past threads about sending additional information in the reply. This is about sending additional information in the request. I think the only acceptable way to do this would be via the EDNS0 extension mechanis

Re: Resolving issue on specific domain

2016-07-12 Thread Barry Margolin
o > fix this issue? This suggests that the problem is that the domain isn't delegated to your server. If you don't use @localhost, the query goes to your normal resolver, which follows the delegations from the root, and they don't lead to your server. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA __

Re: Additional Section - TXT Format?

2016-07-09 Thread Barry Margolin
so they should be included in the answer to save you from having to request them separately. DNS is supposed to be a lightweight protocol, so it's inappropriate to return more data than is really needed. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA ___ Please visit ht

Re: UDP Packet Hack

2016-06-22 Thread Barry Margolin
hat I should do is "./dig @chosen_DNS_server google.com", > but I do not know how to configure the server. The default configuration of a DNS server should work for this. You only need to add extra configuration if your server will be authorit

Re: Forward record for WWW

2016-05-05 Thread Barry Margolin
n R. (HEALTH) > > <brian.cutt...@health.ny.gov> wrote a message of 34 lines which said: > > > > > I configured the change for my external test server only > > > (199.184.16.7, which is _probably_ available for external query) > > > > No. > > > > % dig @199.184.16.7 A wadsworth.org > > > > ; <<>> DiG 9.9.5-9+deb8u6-Debian <<>> @199.184.16.7 A wadsworth.org ; (1 > > server found) ;; global options: +cmd ;; connection timed out; no servers > > could be reached -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: Multiple SERVFAIL/REFUSED unexpected RCODE

2016-05-03 Thread Barry Margolin
  In both cases there appears to be > broken delegations involved. > > REFUSED usually means that the server is not configured for the > zone. > > SERVFAIL usually means that the server is configured for the zone > but doesn't have a current copy. > > You could use wh

Re: also-notify and nsupdate doesnt work

2016-05-02 Thread Barry Margolin
f the nameserver which > is receiving it? That's precisely the use case for "allow-notify"... The use case for also-notify is when you have slave servers that aren't in the NS records of the zone. Otherwise, those slaves won't update until the Refres

Re: Adding CNAME for the root domain issue

2016-04-27 Thread Barry Margolin
; read the word "root" in that document? > I've long since stopped getting bothered by sloppy language like this, ever since people started using "IP" as short for "IP address", or using "class A, B, C" to refer to /8, /6, and /24 p

Re: Adding CNAME for the root domain issue

2016-04-27 Thread Barry Margolin
lving the CNAME it hooks into the CDN algorithms. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: bind service was down

2016-04-23 Thread Barry Margolin
it crashed Because it has a bug. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: Bind response to query's very small edns udp payload size

2016-04-15 Thread Barry Margolin
that could be included in the Authority section, but they aren't required, it can leave them out without setting TC. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: when i check resolver.log just now , i found some error info about AAAA ( ipv6)

2016-04-13 Thread Barry Margolin
expect them to treat any differently from other types that they don't know about. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@list

Re: Bind response to query's very small edns udp payload size

2016-04-12 Thread Barry Margolin
s lower than 512 MUST be treated as equal to 512. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6891#section-6.2.3 So I expect BIND obeys this. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this lis

Re: Can bind be configured to not drop RR's from the cache when the upstream DNS server is unresponsive

2016-03-26 Thread Barry Margolin
In article <mailman.481.1459014144.73610.bind-us...@lists.isc.org>, Ron <ron.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > Barry, > > On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 3:13 AM, Barry Margolin <bar...@alum.mit.edu> wrote: > > In article <mailman.464.1458924548.73610.bind-us...

Re: Configuring different TTLs in multiple RRs for the same domain name, TYPE, and CLASS

2016-03-25 Thread Barry Margolin
In article <mailman.469.1458936922.73610.bind-us...@lists.isc.org>, Dave Warren <da...@hireahit.com> wrote: > On 2016-03-25 07:21, Barry Margolin wrote: > > In article <mailman.456.1458889802.73610.bind-us...@lists.isc.org>, > > Dave Warren <da...@hi

Re: Can bind be configured to not drop RR's from the cache when the upstream DNS server is unresponsive

2016-03-25 Thread Barry Margolin
In article <mailman.464.1458924548.73610.bind-us...@lists.isc.org>, John Wobus <jw...@cornell.edu> wrote: > On Mar 18, 2016, at 6:28 AM, Barry Margolin <bar...@alum.mit.edu> wrote: > > In article <mailman.384.1458255932.73610.bind-us...@lists.isc.org>, >

Re: Configuring different TTLs in multiple RRs for the same domain name, TYPE, and CLASS

2016-03-24 Thread Barry Margolin
argely before today's connected mobile devices were a thing. But it was also before the widespread use of CDNs (Akamai was founded only 3 years earlier). These days, the most heavily used web sites use CDNs, which make heavy use of short TTLs for the leaf CNAME and A records. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: Configuring different TTLs in multiple RRs for the same domain name, TYPE, and CLASS

2016-03-24 Thread Barry Margolin
5 records. It still has TXT records in its cache, and it will return them in response to a query. It won't go back to the authoritative server until ALL the TXT records expire. During the period between the short TTL and the longest TTL, it will be as if the short-TTL records don't exis

Re: Can bind be configured to not drop RR's from the cache when the upstream DNS server is unresponsive

2016-03-20 Thread Barry Margolin
or the authoritative server operator to fix their problem. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: Can bind be configured to not drop RR's from the cache when the upstream DNS server is unresponsive

2016-03-19 Thread Barry Margolin
lable if you have a network of machines running different operating systems, and you'd like to have your central resolver take care of all the caching. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to

Re: Multiple A records and reverse DNS

2016-03-19 Thread Barry Margolin
situation for redundancy. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: A Zone Transfer Question

2016-02-19 Thread Barry Margolin
ternal nameservers, they're not reached via public delegation. So NS records are probably irrelevant to how they're used by clients. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe fr

Re: A Zone Transfer Question

2016-02-19 Thread Barry Margolin
e option: allow-query { 10.4.1/24; 127.0.0.1; }; 10.4.3.101 isn't in 10.4.1/24. The slave has to be allowed to query the master. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe

Re: How to check slave zone freshness

2016-02-09 Thread Barry Margolin
ired yet). Subtract the time until expiry from the SOA Expire field, and that tells you how long it has been since it last refreshed. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscr

Re: Resolver optimization of auth selection - Truth or Myth?

2016-02-08 Thread Barry Margolin
es it can be because of heavy load on the server, or a congested network link, or other temporary conditions. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users ma

Re: Writeable file already in use

2016-01-05 Thread Barry Margolin
quot;transient data" to be written > to disk. They had to make sure that if the physical device was stolen, > all of their zone data didn't follow it out the door. The in-memory copy is likely to end up in the swap partition. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA ___

Re: Query on ignoring additional section returned in replies

2015-11-18 Thread Barry Margolin
just want to get their work done. Google understands that there are lots of broken DNS configurations out there, but their users don't want to hear that it's someone else's fault. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/m

Re: Query on ignoring additional section returned in replies

2015-11-18 Thread Barry Margolin
In article <mailman.2962.1447861903.26362.bind-us...@lists.isc.org>, Reindl Harald <h.rei...@thelounge.net> wrote: > Am 18.11.2015 um 16:47 schrieb Barry Margolin: > > In article <mailman.2958.144784.26362.bind-us...@lists.isc.org>, > > Reindl Hara

Re: root hints operation

2015-11-16 Thread Barry Margolin
ce you wrote that it tries each server in the root hints file until it gets a successful response. That suggests that you understood that the built-in list is used in place of the file if no file is provided. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA ___ Please visit http

Re: Why two lookups for a CNAME?

2015-10-22 Thread Barry Margolin
m are served by ns[1-4].google.com. You'll see additional queries like this if you look up servers hosted by the Akamai CDN, because the CNAME points from the original domain to one of Akamai's domains. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA ___ Please visi

Re: SRV Request to DNS

2015-10-14 Thread Barry Margolin
). Theoretically, this could be useful for HTTP, so you wouldn't have to put :port# in URLs if the domain uses an alternate port. It would make things easier when you have servers for multiple domains behind a NAT router with a single public address. But AFAIK there's been no movement to require b

Re: Multiple queries for same host

2015-09-16 Thread Barry Margolin
-transfer { any; }; > }; > > zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" { > type master; > file "masters/db.127.0.0"; > allow-update { none; }; > allow-transfer { any; }; > }; > > zone "0/27.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa" { > type ma

Re: BIND and RFC4074

2015-09-08 Thread Barry Margolin
version, > in which release it was fixed? > > I tried to go through CHANGELOG and to Google it, > but without any luck. I'm pretty sure BIND has *always* worked correctly in this regard. The failures have generally come from standalone devices with minimal DNS implementations, often DNS-ba

Re: DNS Negative Caching

2015-08-28 Thread Barry Margolin
if there's no $TTL directive? If not, the software needs to do something, and using the old method for compatibility is as good anything else (on the assumption that anyone who didn't put $TTL in the file was depending on this use of the SOA record). -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA

Re: DNS Negative Caching

2015-08-28 Thread Barry Margolin
as the default TTL. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: DNS Negative Caching

2015-08-27 Thread Barry Margolin
when it was changed to be the negative cache TTL. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org

Re: response case in-sensitivity?

2015-07-30 Thread Barry Margolin
matches, to protect against spoofed responses. https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-vixie-dnsext-dns0x20-00 -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing

Re: RFC 1918/3330/5735

2015-07-17 Thread Barry Margolin
within these zones, since there's no delegation, it will just return an authoritative NXDOMAIN for any address within these blocks. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from

Re: Receiving Timeout from DNS Server for a zone file Not present in named.conf

2015-07-08 Thread Barry Margolin
the +norecurse option, the server will try to make a recursive query for you (assuming you're in its allow-recursion access list). If dig times out before that completes, you'll get a timeout error. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA ___ Please visit

Re: [ISC BIND 9.10.2-P1 and older] flawed zone file modification check

2015-06-29 Thread Barry Margolin
a backup, and it gets the original mtime. Wouldn't you want a reload to pick this up? Maybe it should warn about it, but not reject it completely. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

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