Re: Punycode questions

2014-09-29 Thread Tony Finch
Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.com wrote: In a nutshell, I'd just like to know whether or not Punycode encoded strings may ever validly contain either (a) leading periods or else (b) two consecutive periods. Would any strings that contain either of those things be considered to be

Re: Punycode questions

2014-09-29 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message alpine.lsu.2.00.1409291026090.18...@hermes-1.csi.cam.ac.uk, Tony Finch d...@dotat.at wrote: Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.com wrote: To be more specific and concrete about it, here is a small example Perl program I wrote: ftp://ftp.tristatelogic.com/pub/punybug.pl

Maximum DNS packet size?

2014-09-29 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
My apologies if this question might also be considered a bit off-topic for this list. Is the maximum possible size of a DNS packet (just the payload part... not including IP and UDP headers) 64k bytes? I have some old code which assumes that, perhaps incorrectly.

Re: Maximum DNS packet size?

2014-09-29 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 70279.1412020...@server1.tristatelogic.com, Ronald F. Guilmette writes: My apologies if this question might also be considered a bit off-topic for this list. Is the maximum possible size of a DNS packet (just the payload part... not including IP and UDP headers) 64k bytes?

Diagnostic help

2014-09-29 Thread Bill Christensen
Hi folks, Something got sideways on one of my DNS servers, and I would appreciate some help in figuring out what's going on. I'm running BIND 9.10.1. This server is authoritative master for a number of domains. First off, I may have the allow-query set incorrectly. Currently I have: acl

Re: Diagnostic help

2014-09-29 Thread Ben Croswell
The default for allow query is local host local nets. Basically the server itself and directly connected networks On Sep 29, 2014 8:03 PM, Bill Christensen billc_li...@greenbuilder.com wrote: Hi folks, Something got sideways on one of my DNS servers, and I would appreciate some help in

Re: Diagnostic help

2014-09-29 Thread Bill Christensen
So if my server is authoritative for MyDomain.com, should Joe Sixpak be able to resolve it via whatever DNS he's using, as mine is currently set up? Do I need to change it to |allow-query { any; };| in order to allow that to happen? Will my restriction on recursion keep the riffraff

Wildcard oddity

2014-09-29 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
My apologies for my earlier, arguably off-topic questions. Now I have a real honest-to-goodness BIND question. I have the following simple zone file installed as test0.tristatelogic.com: === $TTL 3600 @ IN SOA

Re: Wildcard oddity

2014-09-29 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 20703.1412049...@server1.tristatelogic.com, Ronald F. Guilmette writes: My apologies for my earlier, arguably off-topic questions. Now I have a real honest-to-goodness BIND question. I have the following simple zone file installed as test0.tristatelogic.com:

Re: Wildcard oddity

2014-09-29 Thread Mukund Sivaraman
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 08:52:41PM -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: *.colors IN A 127.0.0.2 *.jason.purple.colors IN A 127.0.0.3 ; *.purple.colors IN A 127.0.0.4 === Note that that last line is commented out.