Re: How Zone Files Are Read

2020-12-16 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 12/16/20 11:36 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 16.12.20 um 18:26 schrieb Gregory Sloop: >> This isn't, IMO, very useful as a response to the OP. > > let that decide the OP > >> To sum up the response; "It's better to never fail!" >> >> Yes, that seems pretty obvious. It *would* be better

Re: How Zone Files Are Read

2020-12-16 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 16.12.20 um 17:37 schrieb Tim Daneliuk: I ran into a situation yesterday which got me pondering something about bind. In this case, a single line in a zone file was bad. The devops automation had inserted a space in the hostname field of a PTR record. What was interesting was that - at

Re: How Zone Files Are Read

2020-12-16 Thread Gregory Sloop
This isn't, IMO, very useful as a response to the OP. To sum up the response; "It's better to never fail!" Yes, that seems pretty obvious. It *would* be better to never fail. Way, way better. But the big problem in life is; We're always failing! Dammit! So, learning how to gracefully fail, and

Re: How Zone Files Are Read

2020-12-16 Thread Timothe Litt
On 16-Dec-20 11:37, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > I ran into a situation yesterday which got me pondering something about bind. > > In this case, a single line in a zone file was bad. The devops automation > had inserted a space in the hostname field of a PTR record. > > What was interesting was that -

Re: How Zone Files Are Read

2020-12-16 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 16.12.20 um 18:26 schrieb Gregory Sloop: This isn't, IMO, very useful as a response to the OP. let that decide the OP To sum up the response; "It's better to never fail!" Yes, that seems pretty obvious. It *would* be better to never fail. Way, way better. But the big problem in life

Re: How Zone Files Are Read

2020-12-16 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 12/16/20 12:25 PM, Timothe Litt wrote: > On 16-Dec-20 11:37, Tim Daneliuk wrote: >> I ran into a situation yesterday which got me pondering something about bind. >> >> In this case, a single line in a zone file was bad. The devops automation >> had inserted a space in the hostname field of a

How Zone Files Are Read

2020-12-16 Thread Tim Daneliuk
I ran into a situation yesterday which got me pondering something about bind. In this case, a single line in a zone file was bad. The devops automation had inserted a space in the hostname field of a PTR record. What was interesting was that - at startup - bind absolutely refused to load the

Re: How Zone Files Are Read

2020-12-16 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 16.12.20 um 19:18 schrieb Tim Daneliuk: On 12/16/20 11:36 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: where did i give the advice "don't fail"? please read my repsonse again! * the zone fails on the master * the zone is still available on the slaves * so the error isn't fatal * but you recognize your

Re: How Zone Files Are Read

2020-12-16 Thread Timothe Litt
On 16-Dec-20 13:52, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > On 12/16/20 12:25 PM, Timothe Litt wrote: >> On 16-Dec-20 11:37, Tim Daneliuk wrote: >>> I ran into a situation yesterday which got me pondering something about >>> bind. >>> >>> In this case, a single line in a zone file was bad. The devops automation

Re: Weird DNS behaviour resolution issues when more labels are present in a zone

2020-12-16 Thread Prasanna Mathivanan (pmathiva) via bind-users
Hi Tale, Thanks for explaining We can close this query now. Thanks team for helping me understand the issue. -- Thanks Prasanna On 17/12/20, 1:13 AM, "tale" wrote: On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 3:48 AM Prasanna Mathivanan (pmathiva) via bind-users wrote: > Whenever we have broken

Re: Weird DNS behaviour resolution issues when more labels are present in a zone

2020-12-16 Thread tale via bind-users
On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 3:48 AM Prasanna Mathivanan (pmathiva) via bind-users wrote: > Whenever we have broken delegation as domain owners didn't follow proper RFC, > the default behaviour of the query hits " _." which > doesn’t exist.? And we get NXDOMAIN or SERVFAIL response. Going back

Re: Weird DNS behaviour resolution issues when more labels are present in a zone

2020-12-16 Thread Prasanna Mathivanan (pmathiva) via bind-users
Thanks Mark for responding. Whenever we have broken delegation as domain owners didn't follow proper RFC, the default behaviour of the query hits " _." which doesn’t exist.? And we get NXDOMAIN or SERVFAIL response. Is my understanding correct ? -- Thanks Prasanna On 14/12/20, 6:51 AM,

Re: How Zone Files Are Read

2020-12-16 Thread Mark Andrews
> On 17 Dec 2020, at 06:44, Timothe Litt wrote: > > > On 16-Dec-20 13:52, Tim Daneliuk wrote: >> On 12/16/20 12:25 PM, Timothe Litt wrote: >> >>> On 16-Dec-20 11:37, Tim Daneliuk wrote: >>> I ran into a situation yesterday which got me pondering something about bind.

query-source and recursive options

2020-12-16 Thread Xinyu Wang
Hi guys, I noticed query-source takes effect even recursive is set false. My question is, if recursion is disabled, no outgoing queries should be generated. So why query-source still takes effect? Also, resovler is created per view when starting up named even recursive==false. Why? Do resolvers

Re: query-source and recursive options

2020-12-16 Thread Mark Andrews
Nameservers generate their own requests. Nameservers have to translate names to addresses as part of the notify process. -- Mark Andrews > On 16 Dec 2020, at 19:18, Xinyu Wang wrote: > >  > > > Hi guys, I noticed query-source takes effect even recursive is set false. > My question is,