RE: A newbies Bind question

2009-02-01 Thread Peter Arends
In addition to these recommendation, you can use MAC filtering to restrict users. This is ofcourse if you have a iptables based firewall with MAC module. /Peter -Original Message- From: bind-users-boun...@lists.isc.org [mailto:bind-users-boun...@lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Lightner S

Re: Open Ports in BIND

2009-02-01 Thread Chris Thompson
On Feb 1 2009, Niall O'Reilly wrote: [...] You need to read the documentation for the commands involved. Try # man netstat # man grep # man wc Can I suggest $ man netstat $ man grep $ man wc instead? :-) / 2 -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___

Re: Open Ports in BIND

2009-02-01 Thread Niall O'Reilly
[ Copied to list to let other know that this question has been answered ] On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 18:08 +0330, Bind wrote: > # netstat -an |grep 53 |wc > 3911223 20656 > > is first number the total queries which asked from my server on port > 53 or > number of session

Re: Open Ports in BIND

2009-02-01 Thread Alan Clegg
Bind wrote: > Dear Admins > I installed Bindv9.5.1 and it works properly,,but i have some questions > about these parameters: > > # netstat -an |grep 53 |wc > 3911223 20656 I think you might want to use "lsof" (or your system equivalent) to find the open ports that are directly related

Re: BIND 9.6 Flaw - CNAME vs. A Record in MX Records are NOT "Illegal"

2009-02-01 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 30.01.09 22:55, Al Stu wrote: > History is fraught with individuals or a few being ridiculed for putting > forth that which goes against the conventional wisdom of the masses and so > called experts, only to be vindicated once the masses and so called experts > get their head out where the su

Re: Open Ports in BIND

2009-02-01 Thread Barry Margolin
In article , "Bind" wrote: > I installed Bindv9.5.1 and it works properly,,but i have some questions > about these parameters: > > # netstat -an |grep 53 |wc > 3911223 20656 > > is first number the total queries which asked from my server on port 53 or > number of sessions that sta

Open Ports in BIND

2009-02-01 Thread Bind
Dear Admins I installed Bindv9.5.1 and it works properly,,but i have some questions about these parameters: # netstat -an |grep 53 |wc 3911223 20656 is first number the total queries which asked from my server on port 53 or number of sessions that stablished? what is the second and t

RE: A newbies Bind question

2009-02-01 Thread Jeff Lightner
You can allow recursion (and caching)for specific (as opposed to all) IPs external to your setup but its generally not a good idea unless these IPs are static and trusted by you. If your "friends" are using ISPs they're almost certainly getting DHCP provided IPs (meaning random). You don't want t