Re: BIND does not answer

2013-02-14 Thread Tony Finch
Christian Tardif christian.tar...@servinfo.ca wrote: Back to a DNS problem, I came back to this thread. If I do a dig +norec, I still don't get the final answer but then, I get a whole bunch of information (the NS records for the requested zone, and the A records relativey to these NS

Re: Building a fresh named.root

2013-02-14 Thread Steven Carr
On 14 February 2013 13:35, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: What went wrong here? Which do I use? Not sure what is up with your dig response (can you post the contents) but it works for me and if your dig still isn't working use the one from FTP. sjcarr@elmo:~ $ dig . ns

Re: Building a fresh named.root

2013-02-14 Thread Warren Kumari
BIND now comes with a baked in roots file (in the imaginatively named lib/dns/rootns.c ) There is no need for a named.root file, and is just another thing to go wrong… W On Feb 14, 2013, at 8:35 AM, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: The Centos 6.3 bind and bind-chroot do not seem

Re: Building a fresh named.root

2013-02-14 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 02/14/2013 09:05 AM, Warren Kumari wrote: BIND now comes with a baked in roots file (in the imaginatively named lib/dns/rootns.c ) Not (at least by that name) in the Redhat/Centos 6.3 bind 9.8.2. There is no need for a named.root file, and is just another thing to go wrong… Is there

Re: Building a fresh named.root

2013-02-14 Thread Warren Kumari
On Feb 14, 2013, at 9:28 AM, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: On 02/14/2013 09:05 AM, Warren Kumari wrote: BIND now comes with a baked in roots file (in the imaginatively named lib/dns/rootns.c ) Not (at least by that name) in the Redhat/Centos 6.3 bind 9.8.2. Nope -- it is

Re: Building a fresh named.root

2013-02-14 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Oops ignore that earlier send. Hit wrong button... On 02/14/2013 08:42 AM, Steven Carr wrote: On 14 February 2013 13:35, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: What went wrong here? Which do I use? Not sure what is up with your dig response (can you post the contents) but it works for

Re: Building a fresh named.root

2013-02-14 Thread Tony Finch
Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: On 02/14/2013 09:05 AM, Warren Kumari wrote: BIND now comes with a baked in roots file (in the imaginatively named lib/dns/rootns.c ) Not (at least by that name) in the Redhat/Centos 6.3 bind 9.8.2. That is a source file name which is compiled

Re: Building a fresh named.root

2013-02-14 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 02/14/2013 09:19 AM, Christian Tardif wrote: You're right. CentOS 6.3 does not have named.root. They just call it named.ca. That's actually the same file thing. You just need to refer to the right file name for hints. Note below that I did see the named.ca which is from their namecaching

Re: Building a fresh named.root

2013-02-14 Thread Tony Finch
Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: Which begs the next question I was going to ask. How often should I download a fresh named.zone? Never. If you keep BIND reasonably up-to-date its built-in hints will work fine. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch d...@dotat.at http://dotat.at/ Forties,

Re: Building a fresh named.root

2013-02-14 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 02/14/2013 09:34 AM, Warren Kumari wrote: On Feb 14, 2013, at 9:28 AM, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: On 02/14/2013 09:05 AM, Warren Kumari wrote: BIND now comes with a baked in roots file (in the imaginatively named lib/dns/rootns.c ) Not (at least by that name) in the

Re: Building a fresh named.root

2013-02-14 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 02/14/2013 09:38 AM, Tony Finch wrote: Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: On 02/14/2013 09:05 AM, Warren Kumari wrote: BIND now comes with a baked in roots file (in the imaginatively named lib/dns/rootns.c ) Not (at least by that name) in the Redhat/Centos 6.3 bind 9.8.2. That

Re: Building a fresh named.root

2013-02-14 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 02/14/2013 09:47 AM, Tony Finch wrote: Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: Which begs the next question I was going to ask. How often should I download a fresh named.zone? Never. If you keep BIND reasonably up-to-date its built-in hints will work fine. More records

Re: Building a fresh named.root

2013-02-14 Thread Tony Finch
Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: More records 1/3/2013 than in the named.ca stub which IF my version has it builtin raises the question about keeping current at this time in the Internet (and trusting Redhat to roll in new builtin hints as they go). No need to worry. They are

Re: Building a fresh named.root

2013-02-14 Thread Jaap Akkerhuis
You too are missing some A and records! Here is mine: Use bufsize=4096 or at least something around 700, else the answer doesn't fitand is truncated. jaap dig +bufsize=4096 . ns @198.41.0.4 ; DiG 9.8.4-P1 +bufsize=4096 . ns @198.41.0.4 ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got

Re: Building a fresh named.root

2013-02-14 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 02/14/2013 10:18 AM, Tony Finch wrote: Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: More records 1/3/2013 than in the named.ca stub which IF my version has it builtin raises the question about keeping current at this time in the Internet (and trusting Redhat to roll in new builtin

Re: Building a fresh named.root

2013-02-14 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 02/14/2013 10:26 AM, Jaap Akkerhuis wrote: You too are missing some A and records! Here is mine: Use bufsize=4096 or at least something around 700, else the answer doesn't fitand is truncated. I was thinking it was something like that. Thanks. jaap dig

NSEC3/NSEC transition

2013-02-14 Thread David Sherman
Hi, If dynamic signing is used with BIND 9.8, what is the recommended procedure to switch from NSEC3-signed zone to NSEC-signed without changing existing DNSKEYs (currently RSA/SHA-512 algorithms are used for both ZSK and KSK)? Any specific options for dnssec-signzone? Thanks, David

RE: Building a fresh named.root

2013-02-14 Thread Shawn Bakhtiar
Running bind rooted on FC 16 using the standard package. The ca file is located in /var/named/chroot/var/named/named.ca The hints are not built in. [shawn@www ~]$ strings /usr/sbin/named | grep A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET returns nothing. Centos is RedHat EL (free version) which is a stable version

Re: NSEC3/NSEC transition

2013-02-14 Thread Tony Finch
David Sherman dsher...@bluecatnetworks.com wrote: If dynamic signing is used with BIND 9.8, what is the recommended procedure to switch from NSEC3-signed zone to NSEC-signed without changing existing DNSKEYs (currently RSA/SHA-512 algorithms are used for both ZSK and KSK)? Any specific

Export / Import all zone data

2013-02-14 Thread Mailinglists
I'm looking to migrate all of the zone data from one installation of Bind to another...hardware move. One machine is very old but running a pretty modern version of Bind 9.6-ESV-R8. The other server is running Bind 9.8.2 and is in use, so I'm merging existing zone data with new data, although

Re: Export / Import all zone data

2013-02-14 Thread Steven Carr
On 14 February 2013 19:46, Mailinglists mailingli...@wso.net wrote: I'm looking to migrate all of the zone data from one installation of Bind to another...hardware move. One machine is very old but running a pretty modern version of Bind 9.6-ESV-R8. The other server is running Bind 9.8.2 and

Re: Export / Import all zone data

2013-02-14 Thread Daniel McDonald
On 2/14/13 1:46 PM, Mailinglists mailingli...@wso.net wrote: I'm looking to migrate all of the zone data from one installation of Bind to another...hardware move. One machine is very old but running a pretty modern version of Bind 9.6-ESV-R8. The other server is running Bind 9.8.2 and is in

Re: Export / Import all zone data

2013-02-14 Thread WBrown
Daniel wrote on 02/14/2013 02:52:55 PM: Just make the new server a slave of the old one, let it do zone transfers of all of the old zones, then change the config on the new one from slave to master. I wonder if that wasn't done once before which is why the zone files don't appear to be

Re: NSEC3/NSEC transition

2013-02-14 Thread Mark Andrews
In message CB52CF69EC353F4FBC9BA1581123C72E1C73D14C@TORMBXW01.bluecatnetworks. corp, David Sherman writes: Hi, If dynamic signing is used with BIND 9.8, what is the recommended procedure t o switch from NSEC3-signed zone to NSEC-signed without changing existing DNSK EYs (currently

RE: NSEC3/NSEC transition

2013-02-14 Thread David Sherman
Thank you, Mark Is it safe to keep -u option for dnssec-signzone in all cases, regardless of current actual NSEC/NSEC3 chains. Thanks, David -Original Message- From: Mark Andrews [mailto:ma...@isc.org] Sent: February-14-13 3:23 PM To: David Sherman Cc: bind-us...@isc.org Subject:

Re: NSEC3/NSEC transition

2013-02-14 Thread Mark Andrews
In message CB52CF69EC353F4FBC9BA1581123C72E1C73DF62@TORMBXW01.bluecatnetworks. corp, David Sherman writes: Thank you, Mark Is it safe to keep -u option for dnssec-signzone in all cases, regardless o= f current actual NSEC/NSEC3 chains. Thanks, David I had forgotten about -u. Being a

RE: NSEC3/NSEC transition

2013-02-14 Thread David Sherman
Thank you Mark Regards, David -Original Message- From: Mark Andrews [mailto:ma...@isc.org] Sent: February-14-13 5:39 PM To: David Sherman Cc: bind-us...@isc.org Subject: Re: NSEC3/NSEC transition In message CB52CF69EC353F4FBC9BA1581123C72E1C73DF62@TORMBXW01.bluecatnetworks. corp,

BIND 10 - 1.0.0 Release Candidate

2013-02-14 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 BIND 10 - 1.0.0 Release Candidate Welcome to the first release candidate toward the first production BIND 10 1.0.0 release. BIND 10 provides a C++ library for DNS (with python wrappers) and several cooperating daemons for providing

BIND9 statistics-server: JSON?

2013-02-14 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
As a fan of BIND's statistics-server I was tempted to see if I could reduce the size of the data (XML) named produces by adding an option to produce JSON. The patch [1] (which is terribly quick and dirty) does that. [1] https://gist.github.com/jpmens/4958763 Accessing the URI /json on named

odd compile error in a lib

2013-02-14 Thread Jim Pazarena
I installed FreeBSD 9.1 on 3 virtually identical HP rack servers. two of the servers compile bind 9.9.2-P1 as expected. One however dies because of a bunch of undefined references in a library file. a proper ./configure was issued, along with a make; on ALL 3! I am stumped, and would appreciate

Re: odd compile error in a lib

2013-02-14 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
I installed FreeBSD 9.1 on 3 virtually identical HP rack servers. ^^^ It seems this box is missing a Kerberos (krb5) library, but I don't know what it's called on FreeBSD. Maybe compare a list of installed packages on the servers and install what's