Re: Sites that points their A Record to localhost

2014-01-15 Thread Bill Owens
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 07:55:44PM -0500, Kevin Darcy wrote: If the domain owner *really* feels that they have to publish *some* address record for a particular name, but there is no available service at that name, then the null or unspecified address (IPv4 = 0.0.0.0, IPv6 = ::0) is the

Re: Disable DNSSEC

2014-01-07 Thread Bill Owens
On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 04:24:31PM +, Eric Davis wrote: So I guess my DS record has the same TTL as my default TTL for my records? My default is 8 hours, so if I wait 8 hours after I remove the DS from my parent zone then I should be ok? My parent zone is a TLD(.edu). The DS record is

Re: Disable DNSSEC

2014-01-07 Thread Bill Owens
On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 04:34:27PM +, Eric Davis wrote: Duh...silly mistake...I did a DIG on the NS record..Once the DS record is removed DNS queries should work fine right? Thanks Bill. Once the DS record is removed from the .edu zone, queriers won't expect your zone to be signed any

Re: Troubleshooting DNSSEC issue w/ ic.fbi.gov

2013-07-17 Thread Bill Owens
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 09:49:18AM -0700, Ray Van Dolson wrote: Hello; Running BIND 9.8.2 in RHEL6 (at the latest vendor provided version -- bind-9.8.2-0.17.rc1) and trying to troubleshoot an issue resolving ic.fbi.gov that seems to be DNSSEC related. Am fairly certain of this because if

Re: Question about KSK

2012-04-27 Thread Bill Owens
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 08:40:54AM -0400, wbr...@e1b.org wrote: We are authoritative for a few dozen small zones. Is it possible to use the same KSK for all of them? I can see where if it gets compromised we would need to resign all zones using the KSK at once. How much effort would I be

Re: DNSSEC Generating Zone Key hanging

2012-04-21 Thread Bill Owens
On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 01:11:55AM +0100, Damian Myerscough wrote: Hello, I was setting up BIND DNSSEC and when I issue the following command the process never finishes. dnssec-keygen -a RSASHA1 -b 1024 -n ZONE example.com I straced the process and noticed the following

Re: NS records

2012-03-13 Thread Bill Owens
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 08:26:02AM -0500, Daniel McDonald wrote: On 3/13/12 8:20 AM, hugo hugoo hugo...@hotmail.com wrote: == do I have to create in zone toto.be the following NS record: titi.toto.be. TTL IN NSns1.xxx.be I have found cases where

Re:

2012-03-13 Thread Bill Owens
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 01:42:00PM +, hugo hugoo wrote: Thanks for the feedback. Is this a glue record? I do not have any IP defined in the NS record. No, a glue record is an address record (A or ) for an NS record in the parent zone, to avoid the problem of having the child zone

Re: fermat primes and dnssec-keygen bug?

2012-03-07 Thread Bill Owens
On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 12:13:35PM +, Chris Thompson wrote: This is wrong (although I have seen the same thing stated in a number of other places). When the default public exponent was changed from 3 to 2^16+1 (change 2088) the one selected by -e was changed from 2^16+1 to 2^30+3 ... *not*

Re: fermat primes and dnssec-keygen bug?

2012-03-07 Thread Bill Owens
On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 02:43:01PM +, Chris Thompson wrote: Oh, damn. I have to retract. Or indeed, grovel. It all depends on which version of OpenSSL it is linked with, not on the code in dnssec-keygen itself. Older versions do indeed generate 2^30+3, but newer ones 2^32+1. You can see

Re: fermat primes and dnssec-keygen bug?

2012-03-07 Thread Bill Owens
On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 02:43:01PM +, Chris Thompson wrote: You can see the BE (2^30+3) ones in the DNSKEYs for dlv.isc.org as well as in a number of our own zones (which says either that the keys are oldish or that the versions of OpenSSL used are not as up to date as they probably

Re: fermat primes and dnssec-keygen bug?

2012-03-07 Thread Bill Owens
On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 03:35:25PM +, Spain, Dr. Jeffry A. wrote: Please post any additional evidence you may have that would further the discussion. Thanks. Jeff. There's quite a bit about choosing e in this presentation:

Re: BIND 9.9.0 is now available

2012-03-02 Thread Bill Owens
On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 11:13:06AM +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 29.02.12 17:53, Michael McNally wrote: NXDOMAIN redirection is now possible. This enables a resolver to respond to a client with locally-configured information when a query would otherwise have gotten an answer of

Re: rndc flush /recursive ?

2012-02-27 Thread Bill Owens
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 02:32:31PM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: With Unbound, there are two commands to clear the cache, one which deletes only the records with the exact name and one which is recursive (deletes everything under the name). With BIND, I find only the first one, rndc

Re: dig -- only RRSIG present.

2012-02-12 Thread Bill Owens
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 10:22:22AM -0800, Michael Sinatra wrote: On 02/12/12 09:40, dE . wrote: I'm trying to see DNSSEC response of various sites; my DNS server is 8.8.8.8 (google's public DNS service) . . . As we can see, the DNSKEY and DS RR is missing which's mandatory for this to be of

Re: cannot resolve oppedahl.com from uspto.gov domain

2012-02-03 Thread Bill Owens
On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 01:55:12PM +, Florian Weimer wrote: These nameservers: dns2.oppedahl.com. 172800 IN A 208.109.255.50 dns1.oppedahl.com. 172800 IN A 216.69.185.50 return SERVFAIL for EDNS0 queries. COM contains a signed delegation. This

Re: cannot resolve oppedahl.com from uspto.gov domain

2012-02-03 Thread Bill Owens
On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 02:12:43PM +, Florian Weimer wrote: * Bill Owens: On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 01:55:12PM +, Florian Weimer wrote: These nameservers: dns2.oppedahl.com. 172800 IN A 208.109.255.50 dns1.oppedahl.com. 172800

Re: cannot resolve oppedahl.com from uspto.gov domain

2012-02-03 Thread Bill Owens
On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 10:04:19AM -0500, Lear, Karen (Evolver) wrote: Who would be responsible for opening a trouble report to GoDaddy? I don't understand exactly what the problem is here. It looks, from the outside, as though the Oppedahl Patent Law Firm LLC uses GoDaddy for DNS

Re: BIND trying to use IPv6 for recursion

2012-01-13 Thread Bill Owens
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:20:39AM -0600, Ian Pilcher wrote: I am a relative newbie to running BIND in production. I have recently set up BIND 9.7 (on CentOS 6.2) as the nameserver for my home network. I am using Google's public DNS servers (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 as my forwarders). My ISP

Re: Bind 9.9.0b2 inline signing...

2011-11-28 Thread Bill Owens
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 01:03:15PM -0500, wbr...@e1b.org wrote: Todd wrote on 11/24/2011 11:29:14 AM: I don't understand why Windows doesn't include dig by default, even now. Free software hate? And grep and logrotate! At least the GnuWin32 project has a good version of grep. There

Re: Port number in A record in zone file

2011-11-17 Thread Bill Owens
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 03:41:54PM +0100, Aleksander Kurczyk wrote: Why would you run a dns server on a non standard port? There's no way for clients to query via non standard ports. I would like to make a experimental configuration simulating a few BIND servers on one PC (PowerMac G4 400

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. Is

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 be a TLD?

Re: zone before delegation?

2011-10-29 Thread Bill Owens
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 05:39:05PM +, Laws, Peter C. wrote: OK, so simply putting the NS records in the parent zone is sufficient to make it a separate zone. No need to put stuff in named.conf unless I want to or until I actually delegate to a different set of nameservers. Actually, the

Re: zone before delegation?

2011-10-28 Thread Bill Owens
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 04:48:10PM +, Laws, Peter C. wrote: It seems like there are two ways I could delegate a zone. I could, in the zone file for the parent, simply list the name of the zone and a number of NS records to which the zone has been delegated. Or, I could create a zone

Re: DNSSEC not populating parent zone files with DS records

2011-10-04 Thread Bill Owens
On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 06:31:03PM +, Raymond Drew Walker wrote: I have been unable to determine the correct method to add a DS record by hand. The ultimate goal would be the automation of this process. Generate the DS record with dnssec-dsfromkey, cut and paste it into the zone file, then

Re: DNSSEC not populating parent zone files with DS records

2011-10-01 Thread Bill Owens
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:26:34PM +, Raymond Drew Walker wrote: In our initial implementation of DNSSEC, we chose to try out the auto functionalities in version 9.8.0 P4 ie. using auto-dnssec maintain in all master zones. When going live, we found that though all zones that we are

Re: NXDOMAIN redirection in BIND 9.9

2011-09-30 Thread Bill Owens
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 04:52:10PM -0500, Michael Graff wrote: I'm happy you read it, and hope to see you at the forum/customer webinar next week! I'll be speaking, and will bring my fireproof undies. I'm already signed up, but no worries about flaming - at least not from me ;) We came to

Re: DNSSEC not populating parent zone files with DS records

2011-09-30 Thread Bill Owens
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:26:34PM +, Raymond Drew Walker wrote: In our initial implementation of DNSSEC, we chose to try out the auto functionalities in version 9.8.0 P4 ie. using auto-dnssec maintain in all master zones. When going live, we found that though all zones that we are

Re: DNSSEC not populating parent zone files with DS records

2011-09-30 Thread Bill Owens
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 08:48:56PM -0400, Jeff Reasoner wrote: Hmm, I see an A record using the same query: Interesting. . . my validating resolver (also 9.8.1) will only give me an A if I ask with +cd. And if I follow that query with another, without the +cd, I get SERVFAIL; then re-querying

NXDOMAIN redirection in BIND 9.9

2011-09-29 Thread Bill Owens
I've obviously been asleep and not following along with the announcements of new features in BIND 9.9 until today. . . both Evan's blog post http://www.isc.org/community/blog/201109/isc-bind-990a1-feature-preview and the announcement of next week's webinar include NXDOMAIN redirection as the

Re: couldn't add command channel 127.0.0.1#54 error

2011-09-07 Thread Bill Owens
On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 10:39:30AM -0600, Norman Fournier wrote: Hello, I was running BIND successfully on OS X 10.4 Tiger. That webserver crashed and I replaced it with a new cpu and installed OS X 10.5 Leopard and have encountered a number of errors in my configuration. This is the

Re: Clients get DNS timeouts because ipv6 means more queries for each lookup

2011-07-21 Thread Bill Owens
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 04:06:42PM -0400, Bill Owens wrote: On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 02:11:57PM -0400, Jonathan Kamens wrote: The number of DNS queries required for each address lookup requested by a client has gone up considerably because of IPV6. The problem is being exacerbated

Re: AAAA type query invalidates A records in name server cache

2011-07-19 Thread Bill Owens
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 04:58:53PM +0200, mailsecurity wrote: All, anyone experiencing the same behavior? I hope so, because that's the correct behavior. Dell's nameserver is broken: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4074 Common Misbehavior Against DNS Queries for IPv6 Addresses - May 2005 4.2.

Re: Clients get DNS timeouts because ipv6 means more queries for each lookup

2011-07-11 Thread Bill Owens
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 02:11:57PM -0400, Jonathan Kamens wrote: The number of DNS queries required for each address lookup requested by a client has gone up considerably because of IPV6. The problem is being exacerbated by the fact that many DNS servers on the net don't yet support IPV6

Re: Clients get DNS timeouts because ipv6 means more queries for each lookup

2011-07-11 Thread Bill Owens
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 04:25:59PM -0400, Jonathan Kamens wrote: On 7/11/2011 4:06 PM, Bill Owens wrote: https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/bind-users/2011-March/083109.html in which the first sentence says it all: The nameservers for wikipedia.org are broken. It's not just wikipedia.org