Re: DNSSEC

2012-05-11 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> So how do we implement one? Create a separate caching server with DNSSEC > validation turned off and forward all queries for the broken domain to it? Unbound can be configured (on the fly) to ignore DNSSEC for individual zones. From the unbound.conf(5) page: domain-insecure: Sets

Re: DNSSEC

2012-05-10 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> Comcast has taken a pragmatic view. I'm glad to see they've turned on > validation, but I can see why they need to configure exceptions. Without > being able to manage exceptions, large ISPs are not going to turn on > validation. Indeed, which brings on the question why BIND (still) doesn't have

Re: Configuring CNAME for nosslsearch.google.com

2012-05-08 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> -%<- > @ IN SOA localhost root@localhost. ( > 2012041100 > 7200 > 1800 > 1209600 >

Re: Question about KSK

2012-04-27 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> I was mistakenly thinking the KSK also had an expiration as the > the ZSK does. Keys don't expire; signatures (RRSIGs) do. -JP ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users maili

Re: Question about KSK

2012-04-27 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> When the shared KSK needed to be rolled over, you would have to > process DS records in the parents of your few dozen zones all at the > same time. *If* you want to roll the KSK, a.k.a. "when did you last roll your SSH keys?" :-) -JP ___ Pleas

Re: Exclude a domain from DNSSEC validation, like Unbound's "domain-insecure".

2012-04-26 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
Augie, > Is there a way to exclude a domain from DNSSEC validation, like > Unbound's "domain-insecure"? That is regrettably not possible at the moment, at least not in BIND 9.9.0. The only (quite impracticable) workaround would be to define the zone authoritatively yourself and populate it someh

Re: Test DNSSEC validation

2012-04-18 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> What is the best way to log DNSSEC failures in Bind without enforcing > DNSSEC validation? > > That is I want to see what Bind would have rejected because of failed > DNSSEC validation, but I do not want to return SERVFAIL to my client. I don't think that is possible without modifying the clien

Re: how to generate the name of a .nzf file?

2012-03-20 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> The question is: how to generate the name of a nzf file? > Is there a tool or an easy way? The code is in lib/dns/view.c if (allow) { char buffer[ISC_SHA256_DIGESTSTRINGLENGTH + sizeof(NZF)]; isc_sha256_data((void *)view->name, strlen(view->name), buffer)

Re: zone transfer with DIG: SOA duplicate

2012-03-19 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> What is the starting and ending SOA record? > > In the original zone, there is ony one SOA record... The "starting" SOA is the SOA in your zone. The final SOA is used to indicate end-of-transfer and is a copy of the first; you can safely ignore it or, as Michael pointed out, supress it.

Re: Can i use my custom root hint file

2012-02-15 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> For My internal DNS setup i want to create a internal root hint file . > Should i follow the pattern of standard root hint file ? Yes, create your own hints zone containing one or more NS RRsets with their respective glue. Something along these lines: .360 IN NS

Re: Permissions change after running dnssec-settime bind 9.9.0rc2

2012-02-01 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> I consider it a feature, though opinions may vary. I consider it a bug, and it's going to bite hard. ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org htt

Re: bind 9.9 & inline-signing issue..

2012-01-30 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> That said, instead of using 'rndc reload leadmon.org', I actually have to > use 'rndc reload leadmon.org IN external', or internal as the case may be to > separate the zone I am reloading. Not here, in spite of multiple views; BIND 9.9.0rc1 -JP _

Re: bind 9.9 & inline-signing issue..

2012-01-30 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> After setting up a zone with DNSSEC using inline-signing, I have run into > the issue where if I do anything that updates the unsigned file that is > input into BIND, that it never seems to update the signed data it generated. I've previously [1] received "the Gold Star" for suggesting ;-)

Re: Entropy hardware [was: dnssec-keygen not responding]

2012-01-24 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
Hello, FWIW and for the record, I received an EntropyKey and have shortly described my experience with it so far at http://dnssexy.net/903 Regards, -JP ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this

Re: Wildcards and the include directive?

2012-01-24 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> the online documentation it says > that addzone will add it to the config files. But after running a test, > all this does is add it to the cache. So does this would mean that every > time the cache is purged, I would have to run addzone again? No. Zones are added to / removed from a .nzf "cache

Re: Wildcards and the include directive?

2012-01-24 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> include "/etc/bind/sites-enabled/*" That won't work. What you could do though is to create the content of the file you're including, which ought to solve your problem. cd /var/path ls > /etc/bind/sites-enabled.include And then in named.conf [ include "/etc/bind/sites-enabled

Re: DNSSEC made simple, is this possible?

2012-01-11 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> > Now if FreeBSD would just add 9.9 to the ports collection > > I generally don't add new versions until they are released, ISC said today in the inline-signing Webinar, that 9.9 would probably be released on February 7th. Maybe wait for that? -JP __

Re: DNSSEC made simple, is this possible?

2012-01-11 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> Next great thing would be for ISC to support the Soft-HSM that > OpenDNSSEC uses. I believe that this would make the step of moving to a > real hardware HSM a lot easier (if necessary). BIND has supported the PKCS#11 interface (./configure --with-pkcs11) since 9.6 IIRC, so it ought to be possibl

Re: DNSSEC authentication and ad parameter

2012-01-11 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> DNS OARC runs a pair of validating servers, open to the public. It appears their BIND server has DLV anchor configured, but their Unbound instance doesn't. -JP ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe

Re: DNSSEC authentication and ad parameter

2012-01-11 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> I tried from google dns (8.8.8.8) also but didn’t get “AD” bit set. This may > be because 8.8.8.8 might not be configured for DLV validation. Google's DNS servers don't do proper DNSSEC validation. > Is there any open dns available from which I can check my domain for “AD” > flag set??

Re: zone update to slave

2012-01-11 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> $ORIGIN 184.16.172.in-addr.arpa. > $TTL 14400; 4 hours > 105 PTR GVC-E237-A01.wks-gvc.domain.com. > 88PTR GVC-LIB-C07.wks-gvc.domain.com. > 9 PTR gvc-busdrivers.wks-gvc.domain.com. > 90PTR nb-csiler.

Re: rndc addzone|delzone

2012-01-01 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> Has anyone tried the new features of rndc addzone|delzone with > BIND-9.7? > Will the zone added|deleted get transfered between master and slaves? No, the newly added (or deleted) zone will not be automatcially added to (deleted from) slave servers. (Slaves require a different zone definition co

[info]: BIND DLZ dlopen() with Lua

2011-12-10 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
During a bout of excessive boredom I created a Lua back-end for DLZ's dlopen() driver. If anybody is interested, I've put up a short description [1] and the source code [2]. Patches are welcome. :) -JP [1] http://jpmens.net/2011/12/01/lua-back-end-for-bind/ [2] https://github.com/jpmens/d

Re: CNAME only zone?

2011-12-09 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> I don't know what you mean by that. Apex of what exactly - my zone > file? Can you tell me exactly what the zone file should look like > with the CNAME record at the "apex"? Determine the address(es) for the target domain name shop4water.hostedbywebtstore.com (I'm using 127.0.0.1 as an example

Re: How to identify a "raw" zone file

2011-12-02 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> I'd recommend checking the next four octets as well; they'll be "00 00 00 00" > or "00 00 00 01". I've hacked up a magic(5) file which seems to work for me: $ file * inline.aa:BIND raw format zone file < v9.9 inline.aa.jnl:BIND journal file v9

Re: Entropy hardware [was: dnssec-keygen not responding]

2011-12-01 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
Thanks Michael, and Hauke. I've had relatively good prior experience with Haveged [1], but I've always wanted to experiment with a USB random generator. Both the Araneus Alea [2] and the Entropy Key [3] look very interesting. I'd heard of the latter previously, and I've ordered that because the A

Re: dnssec-keygen not responding

2011-12-01 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
On Wed Nov 30 2011 at 20:45:30 CET, Michael Graff wrote: > For my VM environment, I bought a USB random source, and share it > across the VMs with a little daemon I wrote. Would you be willing to give us a few more details, such as the name of the USB random source generator (is it an Entropy Ke

Re: Exercising RFC 5011 rollovers

2011-11-26 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> Feature suggestion: some sort of synthetic clock option to named for > use in the test suite ("--test-unixtime-offset") or something? > > Obviously non-trivial. Indeed. I think Chris' & Evan's suggestion of a public zone that revokes and replaces trust anchors periodically (every few hours?) i

Re: split horizon and zone transfers to secondary DNS servers

2011-11-26 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> Judicious use of views with ACLs I haven't actually tested this, but there's a recent thread [1] which describes what I mean. Pay particular attention to the issue of getting master notification into the slaves. -JP [1] https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/bind-users/2011-May/083664.html _

Re: split horizon and zone transfers to secondary DNS servers

2011-11-25 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> May I transfer *views* rather than zone description files? No. That's why it is called "zone" transfer. :) > May I transfer two zone description files for a single zone to a > single server? Again no. (See previous thread on your request to serve two zone files for the same zone in the one vi

Re: multiple `zone' clauses for a single domain?

2011-11-25 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> The documentation for `match-clients' isn't comprehensive enough... Can > I add all host from, for example 172.16/16 except a single host? Does: > > match-clients { 172.16.0.0/16;!172.16.1.1; } BIND checks the ACL in the order you specify. In your example, 172.16.1.1 will be allowed by the firs

Re: Exercising RFC 5011 rollovers

2011-11-25 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> given that their respective administrators have > declared an intention to follow RFC 5011 if they ever roll over their > KSKs. As you say "if they ever roll"; I'm not placing any money on that. ;-) > I could of course set up such a test zone and try to perform an RFC 5011 > rollover on it, usi

Re: multiple `zone' clauses for a single domain?

2011-11-25 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> Do I *have* to use views to deal with such distinction or can I specify > it just as above without views? You have to use views so that the server can decide which clients get which responses. This you specify in a match-clients {} stanza within the view. -JP __

Re: Bind 9.9.0b2 inline signing...

2011-11-24 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
Jeffry, > I have had a tendency to dig axfr from my Windows workstation +1 to you for using `dig' on Windows; most don't even know it exists and suffer the `nslookup' pain. ;-) -JP ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-us

Re: Bind 9.9.0b2 inline signing...

2011-11-24 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
On Thu Nov 24 2011 at 13:52:32 CET, Tony Finch wrote: > I use `dig axfr dotat.at | grep -v RRSIG` ... | grep -v TYPE65534 | grep -v DNSKEY | grep -v NSEC3PARAM hoping, of course, that no owner name is called 'RRSIG' et. al. ;-) -JP __

Re: Bind 9.9.0b2 inline signing...

2011-11-23 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
On Wed Nov 23 2011 at 20:21:00 CET, Evan Hunt wrote: > Correct, but... let me start by explaining the situation in releases prior > to 9.9, without the inline-signing feature. And would you now kindly do all of us and all future readers a favor and copy/paste that text *verbatim* into the ARM? Th

Re: slave nags that master is not authoritative

2011-11-23 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> I have 1 domain name, and 1 reverse in-addr.arpa > citires.ca and0-127.254.194.207.in-addr.arpa > > which my two slaves log that the master is "not authoritative" for Seen from here (.DE) the NS for citires.ca both refuse to answer queries, so they are indeed not authoritative:

Re: Bind 9.9.0b2 inline signing...

2011-11-22 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
On Tue Nov 22 2011 at 20:34:46 CET, Spain, Dr. Jeffry A. wrote: > I did something similar, using nsupdate to modify the unsigned zone > instead of a manual edit. [...] "rndc reload" is not necessary. `rndc reload' never is necessary if you use DDNS to update master zones. -JP _

Re: Bind 9.9.0b2 inline signing...

2011-11-22 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> 22-Nov-2011 11:25:28.320 general: notice: all zones loaded > 22-Nov-2011 11:25:28.320 general: notice: running This looks to me as though you've cycled the server, which isn't currently allowed. Evan pointed out recently here that it can actually corrupt the zone... My experience is that, after

Re: Modify BIND ACLs on-the-fly?

2011-11-22 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> afaik your client can identify itself by TSIG instead of IP address. > of course, this requires tyour client to support TSIG ... Unfortunately the clients are dumb stub resolvers (Linux, Mac, Windows), so TSIG is not an option. -JP ___ Please

Modify BIND ACLs on-the-fly?

2011-11-22 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
Hello, I'm looking at a BIND installation with a largish number of views, each of which allow recursion and contain a couple of RPZ zones. Each view has a `match-clients{}' option limiting access to the view to a very small number of addresses. (Typically the single address of a client with a dyna

Re: RPZ configuration examples

2011-11-21 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
It seems as though you haven't followed some of the advice given you on this list -- you'll have to do a bit more reading. Nevertheless: > 1. How frequently DNS server will download the malware domain database That depends on how frequently the RPZ provider publishes updates to the zone. RPZ zone

Re: Not able to resolve a domain

2011-11-18 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> I have found that www.thisisgame.com does not resolve on our DNS servers You haven't done anything wrong. thisisgame.com has a single name server, and that is currently not open to business, at least not from my part of the world, maybe due to some firewall rule. (Google's NS do indeed have acce

Re: OT: Bind 9.9.0B1 Inline-Signing Question

2011-11-11 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> So the error being logged isn't really an error, it just looks like > one; we should probably see about silencing it. The error is indeed confusing, maybe it should say "not yet signed" ? 11-Nov-2011 12:32:35.838 zone inline.aa/IN/internal (unsigned): loaded serial 2 11-Nov-2011 12:32:35.838 zo

Re: Securing zone transfer and DDNS

2011-11-10 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> I have one more question - how can I block every update for every zone > in options section using update-policy? Are you actually *reading* the documentation: the ARM actually defines `allow-update': "Specifies which hosts are allowed to submit Dynamic DNS updates for master zon

Re: Securing zone transfer and DDNS

2011-11-07 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> Bind version is: 9.7.4 Upgrade; 9.8.1 is current. (In addition, you're reading a book called BIND 10 -- even though the book doesn't once mention that software!) > Maybe this is a stupid question but what is ARM? BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual. It is provided in multiple formats within

Re: DNSSEC and forward zones

2011-11-02 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> Note, the new .XXX TLD is included in that list. Does that mean it is or isn't safe for work? ;-) -JP ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.i

Re: DNSSEC and forward zones

2011-11-02 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> Is there an IETF/ICANN reserved TLD for internal use? I've seen plenty of > .loc and .local, but I haven't seen an RFC reserving it. RFC 2606 > reserves .example, .invalid, .localhost and .test but these don't seem > approriate. Not IETF/ICANN reserved, but ISO 3166 [1] reserves the follow

Re: CNAME record for the root of the domain

2011-10-17 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> I don't mind, but how can I create a CNAME in the parent? Why don't you describe what you are trying to accomplish and what you need that an additional A/ record won't solve? You've been told how to solve the problem, and the members on this list are helping you avoid shooting yourself in th

Re: Experience with DDNS (RFC 2136)

2011-10-13 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> I'm looking for success (or failure) stories to back up my statement :) Thank you all for replies, on and off-list. If you are interested in a summary, I've posted it at [1]. Regards, -JP [1] http://dnssexy.net/538 ___ Please visit

Re: host versus nslookup

2011-10-13 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> host is four characters shorter. Use `dig' and save 25% ;-) `nslookup' must die. (Until a few years ago, it printed a deprecation notice which, unfortunately, has since been removed.) -JP ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinf

Re: CNAME record for the root of the domain

2011-10-12 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> >What have you tried so far? > @ IN CNAME linuxsystems.it. No CNAME and other data [1]. You have an SOA and NS at the apex, so a CNAME isn't allowed. -JP [1] Until you start with DNSSEC :) ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/ma

Re: Experience with DDNS (RFC 2136)

2011-10-08 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> 4. Perceived second-class status of DLZ Ack. > 6. Too-tight coupling between the SQL DB and DNS It'll be interesting to see how BIND 10 [1] handles this coupling [2]. I haven't (yet) had the inclination to experiment, mainly because (and now back on topic :-) DDNS is apparently not yet ready

Experience with DDNS (RFC 2136)

2011-10-06 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
[ pardon the possible duplicate ] I'm a fan of RFC 2136 Dynamic DNS and, if I think it appropriate for a particular use case, sometimes suggest DDNS to customers. I often have a hard time convincing people to use DDNS and am doubted regarding its stability and/or performance. I'm looking for

Re: NXDOMAIN redirection in BIND 9.9

2011-09-30 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
On Fri Sep 30 2011 at 11:50:51 CEST, Hauke Lampe wrote: > > *except that perhaps those who enable this feature will use it as an excuse > > to avoid enabling validation, which would be a very bad result, IMO. . . > > My reading of the docs says that BIND's NXDOMAIN redirections won't > break DNS

Re: NXDOMAIN redirection in BIND 9.9

2011-09-30 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> *except that perhaps those who enable this feature will use it as an > excuse to avoid enabling validation, which would be a very bad result +1 +1 A *very* bad result. -JP ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to

Re: CNAME or A record?

2011-09-28 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
On Wed Sep 28 2011 at 16:43:17 CEST, 风河 wrote: > this is the stuff what should be done by webserver rather than by DNS. i,e, > Apache rewrite will do that. That is incorrect. DNS is needed to "find" the Web server. Web server rewriting/configuration is needed to "find" the site. -JP

Re: "if exists host-name" for IPv6 DDNS?

2011-09-27 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> > '_' is an illegal character in hostnames in the DNS... > > Yeah, I got hosed by that one by a consultant. MCSE per chance? [Sorry; couldn't resist.] -JP ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe fro

Re: servfail are not cached!

2011-09-27 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
On Tue Sep 27 2011 at 17:32:22 CEST, Issam Harrathi wrote: > and you say here it's cached for 30 seconds?! Evan said: > and we've discussed implementing it in BIND9, but haven't had time yet. In other words, they are *not* cached in BIND9. -JP __

Re: Want to know if there is any way to add custom RR type.(like ip & ipv6)

2011-09-13 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> Well, I'm going to run the modified bind on a local testbed > disconnected of internet. You won't be causing harm, even if connected. :) > Thanks on the hint, now I have to find out where to dig first. > Any knowledge? I'm no specialist, but this might get you started: lib/dns/code.h

Re: Want to know if there is any way to add custom RR type.(like ip & ipv6)

2011-09-13 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> But just for the sake of convenience, is there a way to rename > TYPE<#> to something that I want? If you dig (pun not necessarily intended) into the source of BIND you can actually change the source so that `named' can read your type from a zone master file and `dig' displays it however you wis

Re: Bug in Bind 9.8 or am I doing something wrong?

2011-09-07 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
On Wed Sep 07 2011 at 12:54:31 CEST, Chris Thompson wrote: > >Named doesn't yet have the ability to disable DNSSEC validation > >for specified namespaces. > > "Yet"? Is there a hint of a future change there? *Please* say yes. -JP ___ Please v

Re: Is there a way to disable dnssec validation for a single zone?

2011-08-04 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> The last time there was a dns issue with usdoj.gov, it took about 3 > weeks for them to fix it. Reeks of incompetence. -JP ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing li

Re: bind version problem

2011-07-19 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> If Bind version of primary dns is "bind-libs-9.3.6-16.P1.el5" and for > secondary dns "bind-9.5.0-29.b2.fc9.i386". Something wrong there: "libs" vs. "server", but I assume you mean server for both. > Is it mandatory the same version for > primary and secondary DNS. Not unless you rely on a pa

Re: big improvement in BIND9 auth-server startup time

2011-07-13 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
Evan, > may find this information useful: very useful and quite impressive. -JP ___ 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.is

Slow list [was: Re: Compromised BIND?]

2011-06-01 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> Does anyone else find the bind-users list to be very slow? Yes, very. [Pressing 's'end at 09:54 CET] -JP ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: Compromised BIND?

2011-05-31 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> I have a BIND 9.8.0-P2 server instance running on a production server. My > firewall is showing repeated attempts by named.exe to connect to IP > addresses in foreign countries on ports , 6667 and 6669 - common IRC > ports used by worms/trojans/zombies. Sounds like you're running an IRC bot.

Re: Bug in bind 9.7.3?

2011-05-27 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> This is reproducible and should only affected in 9.7.3. For the record, the problem has been fixed: http://www.isc.org/software/bind/advisories/cve-2011-1910 -JP ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailma

Re: Bug in bind 9.7.3 [ and 9.8.0]

2011-05-26 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> # host -t TXT _adsp._domainkey.federalreserve.gov > > bind dies with > > May 26 19:59:02 resolv04 named[8237]: buffer.c:285: REQUIRE(b->used + 1 > <= b->length) failed > May 26 19:59:02 resolv04 named[8237]: exiting (due to assertion failure) > > This is reproducible and should only affected i

Re: An Invitation to Neuroscientists and Physicists: Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) Reports First Hand Account of Mind Intrusion and Mind Reading

2011-05-17 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> Mark my words. You will know the truth in future. Ah: DNSSEC -- the guy is on topic. -JP ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: GSS-TSIG update policy identity field

2011-05-11 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> So I look for a way that I can say that all clients from EXAMPLE.TEST are > allowed to update their own record (or whatever). Sounds like a task for update-policy external [1], but note that that requires updates to be sent via TCP and not UDP. [2] -JP [1]: https://lists.isc.org/piperm

Re: GSS-TSIG update policy identity field

2011-05-11 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
Juergen, > I use GSS-TSIG and the handbook says that in gss-tsig the content of the > identity field ist the common secret which is the kerberos principal. I believe you'll have to set `tkey-gssapi-credential' and `tkey-domain` for this to work the way you want, though I do confess to not have a

Re: shared KSK for static zone and dynamic subzone?

2011-04-26 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> While writing this, a compromise came to me. :) I can run forward > zones as children of a single TLD, and use 168.192.in-addr.arpa. as > parent for all my reverse zones. :) If you're setting up your own DNS root server, you could sign that root zone, have your clients enter that island of tru

Re: Autodetection of IP address for nsupdate of A record

2011-04-24 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> Over the years I wondered why public dynamic DNS services reinvented > these wheels, with custom clients rather than using nsupdate. Now it > makes sense. How I wish they'd used a term other than "dynamic DNS" for their services, though... > While indeed, RFC 2136 had *me* cover

Re: Autodetection of IP address for nsupdate of A record

2011-04-24 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> Now I want to do it right, but I don't see a way for nsupdate to do > what httpd does: autodetection of client IP address for nsupdate of > its A record. > > I can script something on the client end to get the IP address, but > if possible I'd prefer autodetection, which would be OS- and > s

Re: Forwarding a subzone of a master zone

2011-04-20 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> I'd like to reinforce what Chris said, and recommend the use of an > internal root zone for networks/enterprises which have no public > Internet connectivity +1 > A lot of people seem to be scared by the prospect of setting up > their own root zone. It really isn't difficult, and I discuss th

Re: Description of log file contents

2011-04-14 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> Where can I find a description of what the variables at the end of the > line in the query log mean? For example: The full set is +SETDC + recursion requested (- no recursion) S request is signed E EDNS0 enabled T TCP (else UDP) D

Re: Stub zone vs forward zone

2011-03-14 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
Marc, A stub zone tells BIND to load SOA and NS records from its masters {}. (forwarders {} is, I belive, both useless and incorrect here.) From that point onwards, your BIND will use the data in the stub to recursively find answers to queries for that zone. The forwarder on the other hand, instr

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