Re: Instructions to use delv to test DNS configured domain before DS uploaded to parent

2023-12-13 Thread Brett Delmage via bind-users
and to answer my own question as I finally found the section in the manual here: https://bind9.readthedocs.io/en/latest/dnssec-guide.html#verification On Wed, 13 Dec 2023, Brett Delmage via bind-users wrote: Sorry, I pasted the wrong version (too many remote shells open today) Should

Re: Instructions to use delv to test DNS configured domain before DS uploaded to parent

2023-12-13 Thread Brett Delmage via bind-users
Sorry, I pasted the wrong version (too many remote shells open today) Should be: ii bind9 1:9.18.19-1~deb12u1 amd64Internet Domain Name Server ii bind9-utils1:9.18.19-1~deb12u1 amd64Utilities for BIND 9 On Wed, 13 Dec 2023, Brett Delmage wrote: I previously used

Instructions to use delv to test DNS configured domain before DS uploaded to parent

2023-12-13 Thread Brett Delmage via bind-users
I previously used delv with a manually made trust/key file to test that a DNSSEC-enabled zone was generated correctly. Despite sarching for all kinds of terms I cannot find those instructions (in readthedocs I believe). Could someone please point me there? bind9, bind9-dnsutils: 9.18.15

Re: Best DNSSEC documentation for current version?

2021-06-21 Thread Brett Delmage
On Mon, 21 Jun 2021, John W. Blue via bind-users wrote: Have you seen the webinar videos on ISC's youtube channel? https://www.youtube.com/user/ISCdotorg/search?query=DNSSEC No! I would not have thought to look there for this -- although I learn all kinds of other things on YT. Many thanks

Re: Best DNSSEC documentation for current version?

2021-06-21 Thread Brett Delmage
On Mon, 21 Jun 2021, Ondřej Surý wrote: you haven’t said the version, but readthedocs.io has a version picker, so you can go with the version you are interested in (v9.16 and up) with “latest” referring to the latest stable branch (v9.16.xx). Thanks for letting me know about this. I seem to

Best DNSSEC documentation for current version?

2021-06-21 Thread Brett Delmage
I am looking to read the best documentation on DNSSEC configuration for the current versions on BIND. Is this comprehensive and up to date? https://bind9.readthedocs.io/en/latest/dnssec-guide.html This doc does not refer to any version - Am I missing that? It seems that this is an important

Re: No more support for windows - Yay

2021-06-05 Thread Brett Delmage
On Sat, 5 Jun 2021, Reindl Harald wrote: besides that - i didn't hear a serious reasoning for a native named binary on windows these days and given there are tons of ways running a linux binary compared to 20 years ago i call it a waste of time * more complex code implies more errors some

no _smtp_tls in published zone

2021-06-01 Thread Brett Delmage
I have added the following two records _mta-sts.BrettDelmage.ca. 180 IN TXT"v=STSv1; id=2021060102;" _smtp._tls.BrettDelmage.ca. 180 IN TXT"TLSRPTv1; rua=mailto:br...@brettdelmage.ca; to a signed zone to enable Mail Transfer Agent Strict

Re: Trying again on SERVFAIL

2021-02-11 Thread Brett Delmage
The internet isn’t always on and it isn’t only composed of big tech companies with lots of resources. like Google's gmail, which has had hours-long service outages from time to time? ;-)___ Please visit

Re: Cannot get nsupdate to work (for letsencrypt acme.sh client)

2020-08-05 Thread Brett Delmage
On Wed, 5 Aug 2020, Mark Andrews wrote: If I use the example zone on that page *no* errors are reported. If I modify restarchitect.com to have a A record at _acme-challenge.restarchitect.com then errors will be reported. I certainly did get an error originally. I would not have found this

Re: Cannot get nsupdate to work (for letsencrypt acme.sh client)

2020-08-04 Thread Brett Delmage
help plea and look like an idiot. Just not in this report, although an earlier version led me to seeing another problem, which was good. Brett Mark On 5 Aug 2020, at 08:44, Brett Delmage wrote: I'm having a problem getting nsupdate to work, as shown below. (Despite reading the man

Cannot get nsupdate to work (for letsencrypt acme.sh client)

2020-08-04 Thread Brett Delmage
I'm having a problem getting nsupdate to work, as shown below. (Despite reading the man pages I'm not 100% clear about the exact scope of the grant options and it may not be right. Examples would be helpful.) I generated the key: ddns-confgen -k acmesh-ottawatch. -z ottawatch.ca # To

Re: nsupdate apparently not working for me. What am I overlooking / doing wrong?

2020-07-28 Thread Brett Delmage
On Wed, 29 Jul 2020, Mark Andrews wrote: Make sure you are using the CORRECT name in the dig query. You used ddns-key.ottawatch.ca instead of ddns-update.ottawatch.ca. Thanks Mark... so tired I didn't see that when staring at it. (Blame grass allergies and terrible heat lately.) Also you

nsupdate apparently not working for me. What am I overlooking / doing wrong?

2020-07-28 Thread Brett Delmage
nsupdate works according to updated contents of a dynamic zonefile but dig does not report the added A record. What am I doing stupidly here? BIND version 1:9.16.5-1+ubuntu18.04.1 - both authoritative and local recursive zone config: zone "ottawatch.ca" { type master;

BIND, nsupdate and acme.sh DNS authentication

2020-07-23 Thread Brett Delmage
On Thu, 23 Jul 2020, Michael De Roover wrote: For example I don't trust Manjaro's maintainers, since they screwed up their TLS certificate renewal no less than 3 times. That's complete and utter incompetence on their part. How they didn't already put certbot in a cron job after the first time

Re: root.hints access errors with Ubuntu BIND 9.16.4 16.04 PPA

2020-07-09 Thread Brett Delmage
On Fri, 10 Jul 2020, Mark Andrews wrote: The file names in named.conf. "/etc/bind/dns” is a directory. Directories are not zone files. Telling named to read a directory as a zone file is not useful. Search for ‘"/etc/bind/dns”’ and the correct the file name. Thanks Mark. Sometimes one can

root.hints access errors with Ubuntu BIND 9.16.4 16.04 PPA

2020-07-09 Thread Brett Delmage
I installed BIND 9.16.4-Ubuntu (Stable Release) from the Ubuntu stable PPA linked to on the ISC site. https://launchpad.net/~isc/+archive/ubuntu/bind After restart, BIND failed with this status: service bind9 status ● bind9.service - BIND Domain Name Server Loaded: loaded

Re: DNS security, amplification attacks and recursion

2020-07-07 Thread Brett Delmage
On Tue, 7 Jul 2020, Tony Finch wrote: Brett Delmage wrote: On Tue, 7 Jul 2020, Tony Finch wrote: minimal-any yes; Why only reduce and not eliminate? The reason is a bit subtle. If an ANY query comes via a recursive resolver, it is much better to give the resolver an answer so

Re: DNS security, amplification attacks and recursion

2020-07-07 Thread Brett Delmage
On Tue, 7 Jul 2020, Shumon Huque wrote: Cloudflare themselves now implement the "minimal any" behavior described in this spec:     https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8482 cloudflare.com.         3789    IN      HINFO   "RFC8482" "" Gee, that's a pretty minimal answer!

Re: DNS security, amplification attacks and recursion

2020-07-07 Thread Brett Delmage
On Tue, 7 Jul 2020, Tony Finch wrote: Reduce the size of responses to ANY queries, which are a favourite tool of amplification attacks. There's basically no downside to this one, in my opinion, but I'm biased because I implemented it. minimal-any yes; Why only reduce and not

Canadian registrars that properly support ipv6 and DNSSEC ?

2020-07-07 Thread Brett Delmage
Not quite on-topic, but consider this an essential element of making my BIND signing, authoritative server and name service work well. Does anyone know of or ideally have experience with Canadian (CIRA-authorized) and ideally _Canadian-based_ .ca registrars that handle DNSSEC and ipv6

Re: Question about Recommended stress test tools for bind.

2020-06-25 Thread Brett Delmage
On Thu, 25 Jun 2020, Chuck Aurora wrote: On 2020-06-25 04:10, Techs-yama wrote: Hi, bind forks ! I'm a spoon, not a fork! :) 418 I'm a teapot! ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list ISC

Latest BIND ARM is missing from docs page?

2020-06-15 Thread Brett Delmage
On Mon, 15 Jun 2020, Evan Hunt wrote: On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 06:38:38PM -0400, Brett Delmage wrote: Is this ARM the most recent version? No, the current stable release is 9.16. The "primary" and "secondary" keywords were added in 9.12. Then is the ISC ARM directory pag

Re: BIND Masters and slaves

2020-06-15 Thread Brett Delmage
After I feel I have mastered DNS and BIND after slaving over the docs and code for years (I'm not there yet, and I have not) how am I going to communicate this to people? How will I be able to master anything technical anymore? Should I just stop trying? Thesaurus.com suggests that one

Re: BIND Masters and slaves

2020-06-14 Thread Brett Delmage
On Sun, 14 Jun 2020, Vinícius Ferrão wrote: ISC had a statement about it a time ago:  https://twitter.com/ISCdotORG/status/942815837299253248 Thanks. I vaguely recalled something but my search didn't turn this up. ___ Please visit

BIND Masters and slaves

2020-06-14 Thread Brett Delmage
I just read GitHub, Android, Python, Go: More Software Adopts Race-Neutral Terminology at https://developers.slashdot.org/story/20/06/14/173/github-android-python-go-more-software-adopts-race-neutral-terminology The BIND 9.11 Administrator Reference Manual at

Re: DoH plugin for BIND

2020-05-02 Thread Brett Delmage
On Sat, 2 May 2020, Michael De Roover wrote: Even if your ISP allows it, chances are that other mail servers will reject it Nope, not always. My residential-class static IP mail server has never had problems delivering mail. I've checked it many times over the years on many blacklist

Re: DoH plugin for BIND

2020-05-02 Thread Brett Delmage
On Sat, 2 May 2020, Paul Kosinski via bind-users wrote: How many ISPs allow traffic on port 25? My impression is that even many (non-enterprise) business customers can't use port 25. Mine does. It's a major Canadian independent ISP. They allow servers too. I run postfix and secondary DNS

Security sssues with Ubuntu bind9 11.9.3 ?

2020-02-23 Thread Brett Delmage
9.14.10 is the current stable release and 9.11.15 is the current extended support release. Unless you know something is broken in 9.14.10 (unlikely) that would be the version to $ You absolutely should not be running a bind version several years old, as 9.11.4 is. But

Re: Options for build configure documented anywhere?

2019-12-23 Thread Brett Delmage
On Mon, 23 Dec 2019, Dns Admin wrote: Hi Brett, ./configure -h Will give you list of the available options. Thanks Peter! Duh, I don't know why I never tried -h here. I use/try it (or --help) everywhere else... I guess I didn't think that configure would report any domain specific help.

Options for build configure documented anywhere?

2019-12-22 Thread Brett Delmage
I'm building bind-9.15.7 on Ubuntu 18.04, so I can try some of the newest features. I have never built bind before. I configured and compiled using the default options just fine, after installing a few reqiasite libraries. I was pleasantly suprised. Next, I would like to build with the same