Re: File descriptors

2009-02-25 Thread Todd
My apologies again, you are correct. I ran a named -v on the boxes, forgetting that we were directly calling bind in a non-path. We are in fact using 9.4.2-P2 on everything, patched to protect against kaminsky. We will look at an upgrade program to get these boxes (about 80 servers,

named reload does not reload correct

2009-02-25 Thread Martin Moerman
Hello, I have an issue with 9.5.3 on which I see that bind does a reload of the named.conf but does not reload the include files which are in named.conf Situation: I do an add or change of name / ip in Plesk, plesk nicely rsyncs the zone files to our two name servers. nameserver 2 reloads

Re: Hostname Naming Compliance

2009-02-25 Thread Peter Laws
Jeff Lightner wrote: And of course you can legitimately say it is a Standard even if it isn't enforced by the software. Your argument would be that people implementing new servers or attempting to access the systems wouldn't be able to do so because they wouldn't have added the exception to

Re: named reload does not reload correct

2009-02-25 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Martin Moerman wrote: Hello, I have an issue with 9.5.3 on which I see that bind does a reload of the named.conf but does not reload the include files which are in named.conf 9.5.3 doesn't exist. Situation: I do an add or change of name / ip in Plesk, plesk nicely

Re: single-character host names

2009-02-25 Thread Evan Hunt
Certainly, several large organizations (Google, Yahoo and CNN, to name 3) are using at least 1: m Not to mention all the root-server operators. So the rule clearly isn't being enforced very well. :) Actually, to be lawyerly about it, while RFC952 says you can't have a single-character name,

Re: statschannel assertion failure

2009-02-25 Thread JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉
At Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:17:27 -0600, Timothy Holtzen t...@nebrwesleyan.edu wrote: I applied the patch on my test system and ran my little test using wget and this is the output I got in the log Feb 25 13:51:12 arthur named[17030]: libxml2 Error: Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding !

Re: single-character host names

2009-02-25 Thread Matthew Pounsett
On 25-Feb-2009, at 16:46, Mike Bernhardt wrote: So what is the accepted view on this currently? Is there another RFC that has made it OK now? I'm not going to say this definitively, because I'm not certain, but I think 952 may have been updated by a later RFC. Certainly there are