Re: High memory consumption in bind 9.18.2

2022-08-01 Thread Doug Whitfield
scenarios it applies to? Best regards, Doug Whitfield From: bind-users on behalf of Petr Špaček Date: Tuesday, July 26, 2022 at 03:16 To: bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: Re: High memory consumption in bind 9.18.2 On 26. 07. 22 0:14, Doug Whitfield wrote: > I wonder if simply adding the w

Re: High memory consumption in bind 9.18.2

2022-07-25 Thread Doug Whitfield
the words “in most cases” to the end of the sentence might make it more clear that the 10% increase in memory is not so much a bug as a different use case. Best Regards, Doug Whitfield From: bind-users on behalf of Ondřej Surý Date: Monday, July 25, 2022 at 08:54 To: Raman kumar Cc: ML BIND Users

Re: Bind > 9.12 Will Not Start On FreeBSD

2019-04-28 Thread Doug Barton
ure out what they've done to the repo, and I can't find my old stuff in there. You're probably better off making your working directory something that's not named in the mtree file, so that your permissions don't get "fixed" by it. hope this helps, Doug __

Re: SSL cert for lists.isc.org expired on Saturday, December 29, 2018

2019-01-01 Thread Doug Barton
I've had LE fail after a cerbot upgrade because it grew a dependency that didn't automatically get installed with the upgrade. So yes, automation good, but not perfect. On 2018-12-31 6:54 PM, John W. Blue wrote: nuff said, eh? I thought that Let's Encrypt wanted to roll / revalidate SSL

Re: about the effect of installing with "--without-openssl"

2018-08-26 Thread Doug Barton
On 08/26/2018 07:30 PM, takahiro wrote: That's why I want to know the effect of installing with "without-openssl". What specifically are you trying to accomplish by compiling without openssl? ___ Please visit

Re: Local Slave copy of root zone

2018-08-21 Thread Doug Barton
On 08/21/2018 08:53 AM, Grant Taylor via bind-users wrote: On 08/20/2018 11:06 PM, Doug Barton wrote: But that doesn't mean that slaving a zone, any zone, including the root, is "dangerous." If slaving zones is dangerous, the DNS is way more fragile than it already is. Sorry,

Re: nslookup oddities (Was: SRV record not working)

2018-08-20 Thread Doug Barton
someone explain that to me?" In other words, do SOMETHING to help yourself. Don't complain that no one worked hard enough to make you understand something that you seem to be working so hard to misunderstand. Good luck, Doug ___ Please visit

Re: Local Slave copy of root zone

2018-08-20 Thread Doug Barton
On 08/20/2018 09:00 AM, Grant Taylor via bind-users wrote: On 08/20/2018 05:23 AM, Tony Finch wrote: If the local root zone gets corrupted somehow (maliciously or otherwise) the usual setup cannot detect a problem, but it'll cause DNSSEC validation failures downstream. The normal resolver /

Re: nslookup oddities (Was: SRV record not working)

2018-08-19 Thread Doug Barton
vendors to use /etc/hosts for address lookups. nslookup doesn’t display the entire response by default. On 20 Aug 2018, at 12:28 pm, Lee wrote: On 8/19/18, Doug Barton wrote: On 08/19/2018 12:11 PM, Lee wrote: On 8/18/18, Doug Barton wrote: nslookup uses the local resolver stub. That's fine

Re: nslookup oddities (Was: SRV record not working)

2018-08-19 Thread Doug Barton
On 08/19/2018 12:11 PM, Lee wrote: On 8/18/18, Doug Barton wrote: nslookup uses the local resolver stub. That's fine, if that's what you want/need to test. If you want to test specific servers, or what is visible from the Internet, etc. dig is the right tool, as the answers you get from

Re: SRV record not working

2018-08-18 Thread Doug Barton
On 08/18/2018 04:53 PM, Barry Margolin wrote: In article , Grant Taylor wrote: On 08/18/2018 07:25 AM, Bob McDonald wrote: I don't think anyone hates nslookup (well maybe a few do ) I suppose the immense dislike stems from the fact that it's the default utility under Windows. Folks who use

Re: Local Slave copy of root zone

2018-08-18 Thread Doug Barton
On 2018-08-15 10:43, Tony Finch wrote: Doug Barton wrote: Slaving the root and ARPA zones is a small benefit to performance for a busy resolver, [...] This technique is particularly useful for folks in bad/expensive network conditions. While the current anycast networks of root servers

Re: Local Slave copy of root zone

2018-08-15 Thread Doug Barton
rs. hope this helps, Doug ___ 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: Modification in dhcpd.conf does not update ddns

2016-01-28 Thread Doug Barton
receive the new IP. When you say "configured client" are you referring to a DHCP reservation? If so, do you have update-static-leases enabled in your dhcpd.conf? Doug ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to u

Re: RPZ in dns views

2016-01-22 Thread Doug Barton
-curly-bracket immediately above. You probably want to comment out (or completely remove) the zone declaration below. zone "youtube.com <http://youtube.com>" { type master; file "dummy-block"; allow-query {none;}; }; view ... hope this help

Re: Bind9 on VMWare

2016-01-15 Thread Doug Barton
. hope this helps, Doug ___ 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

GSS-TSIG updates with multiple KSPs on the same BIND server?

2015-06-03 Thread Doug Barton
as master for multiple AD realms that do not have an existing trust relationship. Thanks, Doug -- I am conducting an experiment in the efficacy of PGP/MIME signatures. This message should be signed. If it is not, or the signature does not validate, please let me know how you received

Re: Digging to the final IP

2014-10-24 Thread Doug Barton
It's interesting to see the discussion about trying to turn dig into something it isn't. :) It's a really good DNS diagnostic tool, but if you just want to get the answer for a query, host does the job quite well, with a lot less fuss. Doug

Re: DLV verify issue

2014-10-24 Thread Doug Barton
On 10/23/14 4:34 AM, Péter-Zoltán Keresztes wrote: Hello I am trying to add a dnssec signed tomain to DLV isc. Is there a DNSSEC path from this domain up to the root zone? (It would be helpful to list what domain it is.) If so, why are you adding it to DLV? Doug

Re: Digging to the final IP

2014-10-24 Thread Doug Barton
as well. For example: $ host ajklasdfjklasd.com ; echo $? Host ajklasdfjklasd.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) 1 hth, Doug ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users

Re: BIND resource requirements

2014-10-20 Thread Doug Barton
loading up a BIND 9.9.5 instance in the lab, loading up your data, and answering your own question? :) If your response is, I don't have a lab, then you know your next step. hth, Doug ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: Inline-signing feature request: Directly set the signed zone's serial number

2014-10-07 Thread Doug Barton
... all of which is not to say that your request is not reasonable, just letting you know that a solution exists. hope this helps, Doug ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users

Re: Diagnostic help part 2

2014-10-01 Thread Doug Barton
that these large answers wouldn't require TCP. ... and more than a decade later EDNS still fails very often due to misconfigured and/or ancient firewalls that don't understand it. 53/TCP is part of the spec, and should not be blocked. Doug ___ Please

Re: Two domains reporting errors

2014-09-27 Thread Doug Barton
for the zone. In practice however it isn't used for anything except occasionally for dynamic DNS. hope this helps, Doug ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind

Re: Change in behaviour regarding ndots and searchlist

2014-09-15 Thread Doug Barton
you have applications that can ONLY work with short names, you can't even type a FQDN into the config. hth, Doug ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users

Re: bind-9.10.0-P2 memory leak?

2014-09-12 Thread Doug Barton
that have been reported with 9.10 you may wish to reconsider that plan. Doug ___ 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

Re: recursive lookups for UNSECURE names fail if dlv.isc.org is unreachable and dnssec-lookaside is 'auto'

2014-08-28 Thread Doug Barton
to. And with that, I'll let others chime in, as I don't think I'm saying anything new here. :) Doug ___ 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

Re: recursive lookups for UNSECURE names fail if dlv.isc.org is unreachable and dnssec-lookaside is 'auto'

2014-08-27 Thread Doug Barton
. No one said it would be easy. :) Doug ___ 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: recursive lookups for UNSECURE names fail if dlv.isc.org is unreachable and dnssec-lookaside is 'auto'

2014-08-27 Thread Doug Barton
in such a direct way, and I hope no one is offended by one person's opinion. I also realize that those who wish to receive the benefits of DNSSEC without enduring the aforementioned costs will not like my argument. I can't help you there. :) Doug ___ Please visit

Re: recursive lookups for UNSECURE names fail if dlv.isc.org is unreachable and dnssec-lookaside is 'auto'

2014-08-26 Thread Doug Barton
in the evolution of DNSSEC the commonly accepted wisdom is that it should not be used routinely; and in fact should only be used when the admin knows that there is a TA in it that she needs, and that is not available with a path through the root. FWIW, Doug -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2

Re: Bind RPZ dnsfirewall howto's version 2 are here

2014-08-23 Thread Doug Barton
the list address and start a completely new message. hope this helps, Doug ___ 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

Re: Metazones or Something Else?

2014-08-04 Thread Doug Barton
. :) Doug ___ 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: OT: Authoritative Server returning RR's with decrementing TTL's?

2014-07-31 Thread Doug Barton
Almost certainly not running BIND. Almost certainly is running a creative load balancing solution. hth, Doug On 07/31/2014 12:56 PM, Ray Van Dolson wrote: Not BIND-related specifically... (though the server below could be running BIND I suppose). This seems weird. Why

Re: Using a DynDNS hostname in master-statement for a bind slave?

2014-06-27 Thread Doug Barton
on the zone, and fix the master definition on your provider's slave whenever it breaks, but that's pretty fragile. Good luck, Doug ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list

Re: tsig-key

2014-06-10 Thread Doug Barton
On 06/10/2014 08:56 AM, Mohammed Ejaz wrote: Any help would be highly appreciated. Switch to BlueCat which does all communication with TSIG by default? :) Sorry, couldn't resist ... Doug ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: SPF RR type

2014-06-06 Thread Doug Barton
the list address and start a completely new message. hope this helps, Doug ___ 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

Re: Problem dlz_mysql_driver

2014-06-03 Thread Doug Barton
the list address and start a completely new message. hope this helps, Doug ___ 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

Re: Architecture Questions

2014-06-01 Thread Doug Barton
recommend to customers that they do this on their INTERNAL servers for just the reasons that Josh outlined. And as Mark said, EXTERNAL authoritative servers should never have a recursive role. hth, Doug ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org

Re: Book recomendations?

2014-06-01 Thread Doug Barton
On 05/27/2014 03:51 PM, Baird, Josh wrote: Hi, Can someone recommend a modern/new-ish book on DNS (specifically BIND)? I know there have been several O'Reily books throughout the years, but haven't kept up on anything in the past few years. I'm looking for architecture design, best

Re: Slave zone intermittently not refreshing

2014-05-11 Thread Doug Barton
for simultaneous transfers and SOA queries are quite conservative. On a busy master I usually at least double them. You'll want to watch performance on the master to make sure it's not actually getting swamped of course. hth, Doug ___ Please visit

Re: a note on 9.10.0rc2: eleven, twelve; dig and delv(e)

2014-04-30 Thread Doug Barton
it can hang around and comiserate with resolv.conf. Evidence of prior bad decisions does not provide justification for future bad decisions. :) Doug ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind

Re: a note on 9.10.0rc2: eleven, twelve; dig and delv(e)

2014-04-25 Thread Doug Barton
this, but I would vote for 'dq' (as in, DNS query) which has the virtue of not matching anything in the Ubuntu did you mean? database. hth, Doug ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users

Re: Clients Matching Multiple Views

2014-04-11 Thread Doug Barton
on the master has been the canonical way to handle this situation since day 1. Doug ___ 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: Example of classless reverse-lookup zone

2014-04-07 Thread Doug Barton
. Did you find this in your search? https://dougbarton.us/DNS/2317.html If it falls in the category of Didn't help much I'd love to hear suggestions for improvement. Doug ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: Example of classless reverse-lookup zone

2014-04-07 Thread Doug Barton
On 04/07/2014 08:14 PM, Dimitar Georgievski wrote: Hi Doug, Thanks, your article really cleared my confusion with the naming and delegation of zones. I did read initially RFC 2317 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2317 when I started working on this task, but I was lost with the use

Re: BIND 9.10.0b1 is now available

2014-03-17 Thread Doug Barton
... it would be interesting to see a requirements doc on what the HSM would need to provide to do that. Doug ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users

Re: BIND 9.10.0b1 is now available

2014-03-17 Thread Doug Barton
hand. You may come up with a more creative solution. hth, Doug ___ 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

Re: Sporadic but noticable SERVFAILs in specific nodes of an anycast resolving farm running BIND

2014-03-09 Thread Doug Barton
On 3/8/2014 1:30 PM, sth...@nethelp.no wrote: One mitigation approach is to blackhole the domains using local zones. That�s not much of a mitigation. Not having open resolvers would be mitigation. Not having open resolvers is good - but unfortunately doesn't help against misbehaving clients

Re: bind-9.9.5 regression test error

2014-02-23 Thread Doug Barton
On 02/12/2014 10:16 PM, Christoph Moench-Tegeder wrote: ## Doug Barton (do...@dougbarton.us): If you don't have enough random bits on your system to run these simple tests, your /dev/random is seriously underpopulated, and likely a security risk. You should definitely not put BIND

Re: Monitoring Zonefiletransfer

2014-02-18 Thread Doug Barton
is for the zone. Windows DNS does have this concept, but they don't emphasize it since they like people to believe in the fantasy that is lazy replication. :) Doug ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from

Re: how to modify the cache

2014-02-17 Thread Doug Barton
On 02/17/2014 11:37 AM, Kevin Darcy wrote: Ugh, that mixes apples (recursive resolution) and oranges (iterative resolution). Out of curiosity, what bad thing do you think will happen if you mix these two functions? Doug ___ Please visit https

Re: bind-9.9.5 regression test error

2014-02-12 Thread Doug Barton
requirements. Doug PS for Mark, When I was maintaining BIND for FreeBSD I always ran the unit tests before I put a new version live. :) ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users

Re: changing NSEC3 salt

2014-02-12 Thread Doug Barton
section 5, could have been better designed from that point of view. Honestly that wasn't a factor in my thinking, but it's interesting info to store away for future use, thanks. :) Doug ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: Disabling RPZ for a few clients / views sharing zones

2014-02-06 Thread Doug Barton
On 02/06/2014 06:27 AM, Chuck Anderson wrote: I was kinda hoping that newer versions of BIND could share zones (with identical zone contents) between views without requiring the messy multiple IP alias setup. You have always been able to do this with include files. hth, Doug

Re: missing NOTIFY after rndc signing -clear all zone

2014-02-06 Thread Doug Barton
On 02/06/2014 04:27 AM, Klaus Darilion wrote: Hi! I just noticed that on rndc signing -clear all zone, Bind removes the private RRs, updates the NSEC3 RR, and increases the serial, but it does not send NOTIFYs. I guess this is a bug. I tested bind 9.9.5, with inline-signing of a zone. Does

Re: classless ptr setup

2014-01-20 Thread Doug Barton
on the same server you get a lot of extra complexity for no real benefit. You may get some useful information at https://dougbarton.us/DNS/2317.html in any case. Doug ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from

Re: dumping master file: tmp-xxx: open: permission denied

2014-01-14 Thread Doug Barton
the examples, and only change things in the default if you're certain you know what the implications of those changes will be. Doug ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing

Generic reasons for recursive performance not to peg CPU?

2014-01-12 Thread Doug Barton
%. The disk is nearly inactive on both systems, and there is no swapping. Using BIND 9.9.4. Is there perhaps something obvious I'm overlooking here? Any suggestions are welcome. Doug ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: Generic reasons for recursive performance not to peg CPU?

2014-01-12 Thread Doug Barton
Thanks for the response, but that's not it. The auth-only responses are generating a lot more traffic than the recursive. Doug On 01/12/2014 05:21 PM, Sten Carlsen wrote: Wild guess: network bandwidth runs out before CPU? Why the difference, I have no clue. On 13/01/14 02.16, Doug Barton

Re: Generic reasons for recursive performance not to peg CPU?

2014-01-12 Thread Doug Barton
to be working a lot less hard than the auth server, and I can't figure out why. Doug On 01/12/2014 06:07 PM, Leonard Mills wrote: Are you allowing long answers when authoritative? Performance measurements with and without additional data in responses is measurable (imo around 12% more network traffic

Re: Generic reasons for recursive performance not to peg CPU?

2014-01-12 Thread Doug Barton
On 01/12/2014 07:30 PM, Barry Margolin wrote: In article mailman.2014.1389579103.20661.bind-us...@lists.isc.org, Doug Barton do...@dougbarton.us wrote: Thanks for the response, but you're answering a different question than I asked. :) The question I'm interested in is, Why is the recursive

Re: Updated to bind 9.9.3-P2

2013-07-30 Thread Doug Barton
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Re: permissions for DNSSEC zone signing

2013-07-23 Thread Doug Barton
be static but the auto-dnssec maintain process is equivalent to the dynamic updates process, so that is the correct directory. Doug (who set up the permissions for named in FreeBSD ages ago) ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: bind classless slave from microsoft dns classful SOA?

2013-07-14 Thread Doug Barton
it for yourself). Miscommunication about the zone names for 2317 zones are rather common. Unless you've been told by the parent admin that the zone is precisely 192/26.* do not assume that is the case. There are a number of ways to represent 2317 zones. Good luck, Doug https://dougbarton.us

Re: Reverse Lookups with Forwarders

2013-07-09 Thread Doug Barton
the actual zone(s) you're working with, as that will also make it easier. Doug https://dougbarton.us/DNS/bind-users-FAQ.html#RealNames ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing

Re: Reverse Lookups with Forwarders

2013-07-09 Thread Doug Barton
Ok, simple. The zone you want to forward is 110.252.173.in-addr.arpa. There is no need to make it more complicated than that. Good luck, Doug On 07/09/2013 12:18 AM, sumsum 2000 wrote: What I am trying to achieve is this: I am using BIND9 only for forwarding DNS requests to other DNS

Re: Reverse address entries

2013-07-03 Thread Doug Barton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 07/03/2013 07:52 PM, Novosielski, Ryan wrote: | On 07/03/2013 04:39 AM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: | On 02.07.13 08:53, Daniel McDonald wrote: | I've had trouble with OSI-Soft PI historian without reverse | entries. If there is no reverse,

Re: configure syslog prefix

2013-07-02 Thread Doug Barton
the named executable. Assuming a Unix-like OS would having multiple links (hard or soft) have the correct effect? Yeah, hard links work of course, but symlinks are slightly preferable here because they make upgrades transparent. hth, Doug ___ Please

Re: Secondary DNS question...

2013-06-26 Thread Doug Barton
an address record for ns2.starionhost.net in the starionhost.net zone. That's likely at least part of the reliability problem with the starionline.com zone. hth, Doug ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from

Re: Secondary DNS question...

2013-06-26 Thread Doug Barton
and it doesn't have any problems. But that's not even the weirdest bit. When running the Perl script it sometimes works for starionhost.net, but never works for the other 2. It seems to me that you have something very odd going on with your network. hth, Doug

Re: Secondary DNS question...

2013-06-26 Thread Doug Barton
Yes, seems fine now. Can you share more information about what it was you turned off? Sounds odd, but the results speak for themselves. Doug On 06/26/2013 09:39 PM, SH Development wrote: Sure could use some direction about where to start looking. I thought I had everything working

Re: Secondary DNS question...

2013-06-26 Thread Doug Barton
Interesting, the pcap that was posted previously showed some odd errors around udp checksums, some showed valid, some showed invalid. With modern NICs it's not uncommon to see them all invalid due to checksum offloading, but the mix of valid and invalid was odd. Doug On 06/26/2013 09:58 PM

Re: PTR files

2013-06-17 Thread Doug Barton
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Re: Thank you Warren!!! - WAS::Re: This list's prefix

2013-06-16 Thread Doug Barton
Great! Now step 2 is to remove the tag from the subject line before sending mail back to the list. :) On 06/16/2013 02:50 PM, Jerry K wrote: Hello Warren, Thank you so much for this post. Long time procmail user here. I'm only sad I didn't think of this myself first. Its been working

Re: Rate-Limit Question

2013-06-14 Thread Doug Barton
On 06/14/2013 09:08 AM, Evan Hunt wrote: (Our usual policy is not to add substantial new features in maintenance releases like 9.9.4; making it a compile-time option that defaults to off is our way of tiptoeing around the rule.) Quite reasonable, and much appreciated. :)

Re: DNS Amplification Attacks... and a trivial proposal

2013-06-14 Thread Doug Barton
wrote: In message 51baa714.9020...@dougbarton.us, Doug Barton do...@dougbarton.us wrote: It's obvious you're frustrated (understandable), and enthusiastic (commendable), but you might want to consider dialing down your rhetoric a bit. Great idea! I have only one small question... Would you

Re: DNS Amplification Attacks... and a trivial proposal

2013-06-14 Thread Doug Barton
On 06/14/2013 05:13 PM, Vernon Schryver wrote: From: Doug Barton do...@dougbarton.us is that (like RRL) your proposal relies on people updating their software. RRL needs only authority and open recursive servers to be updated. The vast majority of DNS installations are closed

Re: DNS Amplification Attacks... and a trivial proposal

2013-06-13 Thread Doug Barton
. There is no quick fix. Doug ___ 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 Amplification Attacks... and a trivial proposal

2013-06-13 Thread Doug Barton
.10...@dougbarton.us, Doug Barton do...@dougbarton.us wrote: No. You can still get pretty good amplification with 512 byte responses. That is an interesting contention. Is there any evidence of, or even any reasonably reliable report of any DDoS actually being perpetrated IN PRACTICE using

Re: Serving up two domains

2013-06-11 Thread Doug Barton
need to fix the root problem rather than trying to support the bad behavior. hth, Doug ___ 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

Re: any requests

2013-06-05 Thread Doug Barton
On 06/05/2013 11:33 AM, Tony Finch wrote: I believe the ANY hack on mail servers was a Sendmailism 20ish years ago. s/Send/q/ ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list

Re: Negative zones; NXDOMAIN responses

2013-05-21 Thread Doug Barton
On 05/21/2013 12:39 AM, Phil Mayers wrote: On 05/21/2013 08:23 AM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 21.05.13 11:03, Mark Andrews wrote: The simplest solution is to slave the root zone and turn off notify to so you don't spam the official root servers. 192.5.5.241 is

Re: Problem query (SERVFAIL)

2013-05-17 Thread Doug Barton
SECTION: dns6.pointhq.com. 235 IN A 91.109.245.139 dns7.pointhq.com. 235 IN A 37.123.115.172 hope this helps, Doug On 05/17/2013 04:02 PM, budsz wrote: Hi folks, I've some problem with query serveral site, I use BIND 9.6.-ESV-R7-P2 $ host dns1.pointhq.com

Re: Mailing list reply-to setting

2013-05-09 Thread Doug Barton
into proper folders ... do it for a week, a month, whatever. If your mail client doesn't notify you when mail gets put into a folder, get a better mail client. Once you try doing it that way for a while chances are near 100% that you will like it much better. Doug PS, you kids get off my lawn

Re: Classless PTR query issue

2013-05-07 Thread Doug Barton
On 05/07/2013 01:50 PM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 07.05.13 11:06, Michael Varre wrote: So interestingly they did give me their setup and this is their response, and my warm and fuzzy feeling continues to go out the window: They use SimpleDNS Record Name: 65.246.59.108.in-addr.arpa DNS

Re: DDOS attack Bind 9.9 - P2

2013-05-03 Thread Doug Barton
On 05/03/2013 11:44 AM, rohan.he...@cwjamaica.com wrote: What if both authoritative and recursive are running on the same server That's a simple answer, don't do that. Doug (ever) ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: ISC Courses

2013-04-26 Thread Doug Barton
the first word is spoken in class. Doug ___ 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: ANNOUNCEMENT: New BIND versions are available.

2013-04-12 Thread Doug Barton
here you may have over-engineered the solution a bit. :) Doug ___ 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

Re: Simple question about zone and CNAME

2013-04-08 Thread Doug Barton
On 04/08/2013 06:54 AM, Sam Wilson wrote: In article mailman.61.1365232319.20661.bind-us...@lists.isc.org, Doug Barton do...@dougbarton.us wrote: On 04/05/2013 11:53 PM, Novosielski, Ryan wrote: | It is funny you should mention that... my questions about using views | to create a situation

Re: Simple question about zone and CNAME

2013-04-08 Thread Doug Barton
that the world moved on, and putting websites on hostnames that don't start with www. is the common case now. Can we save our energy for something more productive? Doug ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from

Re: Forward First on Master Zone (bypass SOA)

2013-04-03 Thread Doug Barton
On 04/01/2013 11:46 AM, Kevin Darcy wrote: On 3/29/2013 12:09 AM, Doug Barton wrote: On 03/28/2013 12:28 PM, Ben-Eliezer, Tal (ITS) wrote: My organization is evaluating the use of split-view DNS in our environment. Simple ... don't do it. It's almost never the right answer, and as you're

Re: is NS record pointing to some other name server needed in case of classless IN-ADDR.ARPA delegations?

2013-04-03 Thread Doug Barton
also common for the child to slave the parent zone so that it can answer internal queries directly. And of course as Mark pointed out name servers 1 is basic DNS. You may find this useful as well: https://dougbarton.us/DNS/2317.html Doug ___ Please

Re: Forward First on Master Zone (bypass SOA)

2013-04-03 Thread Doug Barton
. externally for the same label? Sometimes multiple views are actually necessary to accomplish business goals. IME however it's become so baked in that we need multiple views that the right questions are never asked. Doug ___ Please visit https

Re: Forward First on Master Zone (bypass SOA)

2013-03-28 Thread Doug Barton
to solve. Much better to spend the time carefully considering what your goals are, and finding other ways to reach them. Doug ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list

Re: querying TLD nameservers - limitations

2013-03-25 Thread Doug Barton
a monitoring system may need to query TLD name servers, but before we can answer your question properly we really need to know a bit more information. Doug On 03/24/2013 04:55 PM, blrmaani wrote: I am developing a monitoring script for internal use and this requires extensive querying

Re: Overriding Included Zone File Entries

2013-03-05 Thread Doug Barton
you could do is create separate $INCLUDE files that contain the different elements that may need to be overridden. Doug ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users

Re: BIND roadmap

2013-02-28 Thread Doug Barton
people are using ESV versions from that channel. Doug ___ 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: Problems with resolving a local tld

2013-02-28 Thread Doug Barton
On 02/28/2013 09:34 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Only for my internal tld does the lookup fail. Are you distributing the trust anchor for htt to all of the servers that are doing validation? Doug ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman

Re: disabling lame server logging

2013-02-26 Thread Doug Barton
. Or, put another way, slogging through noisy logs is part of the job, given the horrific state of most DNS out there. Welcome to the club. Doug ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users

Re: disabling lame server logging

2013-02-26 Thread Doug Barton
On 02/26/2013 10:38 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I would like a scalpel for lame logging, but probably would not discover any actionable data. There is a logging category for lame-servers. It's in the ARM. Doug ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org

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