Re: IPv6 hostname resolution not working

2009-07-17 Thread vikram
Hi, Thank you all for the quick responses, I couldnt figure out how to get BIND working. So i used the hosts file. (C:\\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts). Thanks again Vikram ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org

RE: Bind9.5.1 under no Root Name Servers

2009-07-17 Thread Todd Snyder
Martin, It looks like you were relying on an odd mechanism to determine an outage. What you were seeing is the server filling up all the available recursive slots because they weren't getting answered, backing up the queue. It wasn't necessarily an indication of an outage, it could have meant

RE: SPF record Syntax

2009-07-17 Thread Situ, Kevin
The type is TXT, not SPF Best Regards Kevin Situ -Original Message- From: bind-users-boun...@lists.isc.org [mailto:bind-users-boun...@lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of Martin McCormick Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 3:04 PM To: bind-us...@isc.org Subject: SPF record Syntax I found a couple

RE: SPF record Syntax

2009-07-17 Thread Taylor, Gord
Try: update add posse.okstate.edu. 10 IN TXT v=spf1 ip4:209.235.101.208/29 -all Gord Taylor (CISSP, GCIH, GEEK) -Original Message- From: bind-users-boun...@lists.isc.org [mailto:bind-users-boun...@lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of Martin McCormick Sent: 2009, July, 17 3:04 PM To:

Re: SPF record Syntax Update

2009-07-17 Thread Robert Spangler
On Friday 17 July 2009 16:33, Martin McCormick wrote: A person wrote me off list to say that it worked for them. I went to a different FreeBSD platform that happens to be the actual one that hosts our DNS and tried it there and it worked perfectly. I even verified that it is in the zone.

Re: IPv6 hostname resolution not working

2009-07-17 Thread Byung-Hee HWANG
vikram austin...@yahoo.com writes: I couldnt figure out how to get BIND working. So i used the hosts file..[...] Instead, use FreeBSD without any worry. FreeBSD can give you some hints what IPv6 is. Please click http://www.freebsd.org/ ;; -- Byung-Hee HWANG, KNU ∑ WWW:

Re: Bind9.5.1 under no Root Name Servers

2009-07-17 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 200907171319.n6hdjs31003...@dc.cis.okstate.edu, Martin McCormick writes: What does bind9.5.1 do when there is an Internet issue and we loose all root name servers? The bind9.3.x we had been running always began producing tons of lines saying that there were no more

Re: SPF record Syntax Update

2009-07-17 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 200907172033.n6hkx0v5060...@dc.cis.okstate.edu, Martin McCormick w rites: A person wrote me off list to say that it worked for them. I went to a different FreeBSD platform that happens to be the actual one that hosts our DNS and tried it there and it worked perfectly. I even

Re: SPF record Syntax

2009-07-17 Thread Mark Andrews
In message f3f4bb3d156b064a8baeed301da718943d1...@msgmroclm2win.dmn1.fmr.com, Situ, Kevin writes: The type is TXT, not SPF Actually the type is SPF. The idea is to stop using TXT records but it will take some time especially if people go around and say the type is TXT

Re: cannot get bind to work

2009-07-17 Thread Mark Andrews
In message f5af14000907171615va77dc55l501e719b396ad...@mail.gmail.com, Jonath an Mast writes: I can't get nslookup to correctly return the values i've specified in my zone files. I've ran both named-checkconf and named-checkzone on my addr and ptr files and they both indicate proper