Forward Unknown Lookups

2009-02-26 Thread Josh Durham
Forgive me if this has been asked before - I'm trying to set up bind to have A records for a zone, but forward requests for that zone to another known server if lookups fail. For example, on my server, I would create a record for the zone example.com: server IN A 10.0.1.1 But I also

Re: Hostname Naming Compliance

2009-02-26 Thread Mark Andrews
Mark Andrews writes: > > In message <49a755bf.9030...@chrysler.com>, Kevin Darcy writes: > > Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > >> Mark Andrews wrote: > > >> > > >>> When does it stop? What will be the next character you > > >>> "just have to have"? At the moment you have 1

Re: Hostname Naming Compliance

2009-02-26 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <49a755bf.9030...@chrysler.com>, Kevin Darcy writes: > Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > >> Mark Andrews wrote: > >> > >>> When does it stop? What will be the next character you > >>> "just have to have"? At the moment you have 1 inter label > >>> seperator and 1 intra label

Re: Hostname Naming Compliance

2009-02-26 Thread Kevin Darcy
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: Mark Andrews wrote: When does it stop? What will be the next character you "just have to have"? At the moment you have 1 inter label seperator and 1 intra label seperator. That should be enough for anyone. On 25.02.09

Re: single-character host names

2009-02-26 Thread Josh Littlefield
I find a more direct approach is to just use the tools.ietf.org site when looking up RFCs. It is is less authoritative, but pretty trustworthy. For example, browing to http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1034 will show at the page top all the RFCs which update RFC 1034. If the RFC was obsoleted by ano

Change my primary DNS server safely...

2009-02-26 Thread Thomas Manson
Hello, I need to change the primary DNS server which manage hundreds of domains. I've setup the new machine so that it has the correct named configuration for each domains (script generated). I plan to change the IP behind the ns0.mydomain.com so that it points to the new machine. As I

named with DLZ

2009-02-26 Thread Scott Haneda
I have been talked with getting named with DLZ support on Red Hat 5.2 Enterprise. I have never worked on Red Hat or with RPM, can someone point me to the rpm I need? Any other basic pointers? I was thinking to just build it out myself, but if there is a confident stable rpm, I might as we

Re: single-character host names

2009-02-26 Thread Mark Andrews
In message , "Mike Bernhardt" writes: > Another wrinkle: RFC 1035 states "The labels must follow the rules for > ARPANET host names. They must start with a letter, end with a letter or > digit, and have as interior characters only letters, digits, and hyphen. > There are also some restrictions o

RE: Adding records to a domain I don't control for anyone who uses my nameserver

2009-02-26 Thread Matthew Huff
Try creating a zone file _xmpp_client._tcp.example.com and put the SRV record in there. Treat the host as an entire domain. Matthew Huff | One Manhattanville Rd OTA Management LLC | Purchase, NY 10577 http://www.ox.com | Phone: 914-460-4039 aim: matthewbhuff | Fax: 914-460-4139

Adding records to a domain I don't control for anyone who uses my nameserver

2009-02-26 Thread Brandon Dimcheff
Hello, I'm trying to configure BIND to add some records to a domain that I don't control, so that anybody who uses my nameserver will have the additional records. Specifically, I'm trying to add xmpp SRV records so our jabber infrastructure that uses our nameserver can contact a handful

Re: DNS server can resolve some domains - BIND 9.4.2-P1

2009-02-26 Thread Fr34k
For Solaris9 kernal tunables, this may help: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-7137/6md5pauj7?l=en&a=view But note that in my experience BIND 9.4.x will not use these OS limits, but what how many FDs have compiled BIND with. For our purposes, 9.5.1b2 worked great on Solaris9 We are now runnin

Re: single-character host names

2009-02-26 Thread Doug Barton
Matthew Pounsett wrote: > > 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 late

Re: DNS server can resolve some domains - BIND 9.4.2-P1

2009-02-26 Thread Prabhat Rana
Sorry. Yes I meant /etc/system file. --- On Thu, 2/26/09, Linux Addict wrote: > From: Linux Addict > Subject: Re: DNS server can resolve some domains - BIND 9.4.2-P1 > To: prana9...@yahoo.com > Cc: comp-protocols-dns-b...@isc.org, sergiot...@gmail.com > Date: Thursday, February 26, 2009, 12:18

Re: DNS server can resolve some domains - BIND 9.4.2-P1

2009-02-26 Thread Linux Addict
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Prabhat Rana wrote: > > Also you may want to increase the File descriptor limits in /etc/service > file > * Set File descriptor (FD) limits > set rlim_fd_max= > Its /etc/system > > > --- On Thu, 2/26/09, JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 wrote: > > > From: JINMEI Tatuya /

Re: DNS server can resolve some domains - BIND 9.4.2-P1

2009-02-26 Thread Prabhat Rana
Also you may want to increase the File descriptor limits in /etc/service file * Set File descriptor (FD) limits set rlim_fd_max= --- On Thu, 2/26/09, JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 wrote: > From: JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 > Subject: Re: DNS server can resolve some domains - BIND 9.4.2-P1 > To: comp-protoco

Re: File descriptors

2009-02-26 Thread Todd
So, before I'm allowed to even think about 9.4.3-P1, because of the outage we experienced 9.4.2-P2, I need to run through a full test suite/load testing in my lab. I am trying to find a succinct list of the differences between 9.4.2-P2 and 9.4.3-P1 so I know where I should be focusing my testing.

RE: single-character host names

2009-02-26 Thread Mike Bernhardt
Another wrinkle: RFC 1035 states "The labels must follow the rules for ARPANET host names. They must start with a letter, end with a letter or digit, and have as interior characters only letters, digits, and hyphen. There are also some restrictions on the length. Labels must be 63 characters or l

RE: single-character host names

2009-02-26 Thread Mike Bernhardt
Ha ha, I forgot about the root servers. Thanks to a couple of you for the clarification. -Original Message- From: Evan Hunt [mailto:evan_h...@isc.org] Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 2:15 PM To: Mike Bernhardt Cc: bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: Re: single-character host names > Cer

RE: Deny query from a single IP

2009-02-26 Thread Jeff Lightner
The point in the ACL is it allows you to grow the list of servers without cluttering up the Options section. -Original Message- From: Prabhat Rana [mailto:prana9...@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 12:43 PM To: Eric C. Davis; Jeff Lightner Cc: bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject:

Re: DNS server can resolve some domains - BIND 9.4.2-P1

2009-02-26 Thread JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉
At Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:27:29 -0800 (PST), sergiot...@gmail.com wrote: > > I have a server installed, with Solaris 9 and BIND 9.4.2-P1, 1 week > ago, i began to receive some messages in the message logs: > > 25-Feb-2009 15:30:35.826 general: error: socket: too many open file > descriptors > 25-Feb

Re: statschannel assertion failure

2009-02-26 Thread JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉
At Thu, 26 Feb 2009 07:58:29 -0600, Timothy Holtzen wrote: > No it is a single processor on both production and test systems. > Production is an Opteron and the test system is an Athlon64 but both are > single core processors. Just to be sure I did a configured with a > --disable-threads on the

RE: Deny query from a single IP

2009-02-26 Thread Prabhat Rana
Thanks Eric. Using blackhole option sounds like feasible option to block a IP address. Instead of using the acl can I just use the option blackhole blackhole { xx.xx.xx.xx; }; The idea is to user file::tail perl module in a script to tail the stat file continuously and if the condition occurs

Re: Deny query from a single IP

2009-02-26 Thread Dustin Lovell
How about writing a firewall rule on the fly to block connections from that IP? >>> Prabhat Rana 2/26/2009 9:18 AM >>> Hello, I have BIND 9.5running on a Solaris10 box. It provides recursive DNS service. I'm trying to implement a script where it reads the BIND stats file for all the incoming

RE: Deny query from a single IP

2009-02-26 Thread Jeff Lightner
That being said you CAN do what you asked: Create an ACL in named.conf: # Blackhats ACL - zones to be used in blackhole statement - will prevent # them from being allowed to query and will not respond to them. acl "blackhats" { xx.xx.xx.xx; }; (Where you put the specific IP in place of

Re: Deny query from a single IP

2009-02-26 Thread Eric C. Davis
It is better do this with a real IPS rather than use your DNS server to do this. You should avoid having any unwanted traffic hit you DNS servers ever. Eric Prabhat Rana wrote: Hello, I have BIND 9.5running on a Solaris10 box. It provides recursive DNS service. I'm trying to implement a scri

Deny query from a single IP

2009-02-26 Thread Prabhat Rana
Hello, I have BIND 9.5running on a Solaris10 box. It provides recursive DNS service. I'm trying to implement a script where it reads the BIND stats file for all the incoming queries and if there are too many queries from a single user (source IP) it will block queries from that particular IP. I

RE: named reload does not reload correct

2009-02-26 Thread Martin Moerman
First of all Jeremy thank you for answering my question. I have mistyped the digits.. its 9.3.5-P2 .. After hours of testing, we found out that the rndc does the check of zone files beeing changed through the modify statistics of a file (zone file). Their was a to big time difference between th

DNS server can resolve some domains - BIND 9.4.2-P1

2009-02-26 Thread sergiotm22
Hi. I have a server installed, with Solaris 9 and BIND 9.4.2-P1, 1 week ago, i began to receive some messages in the message logs: 25-Feb-2009 15:30:35.826 general: error: socket: too many open file descriptors 25-Feb-2009 15:30:35.827 general: error: socket: too many open file descriptors 25-Feb

Re: statschannel assertion failure

2009-02-26 Thread Timothy Holtzen
No it is a single processor on both production and test systems. Production is an Opteron and the test system is an Athlon64 but both are single core processors. Just to be sure I did a configured with a --disable-threads on the test system and tried again. Testing still triggers the exception w

Re: named reload does not reload correct

2009-02-26 Thread Adrian P. van Bloois
* El Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 02:39:51PM +0100, escribiste: > 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 rsy

Re: Hostname Naming Compliance

2009-02-26 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> Mark Andrews wrote: > > When does it stop? What will be the next character you > > "just have to have"? At the moment you have 1 inter label > > seperator and 1 intra label seperator. That should be > > enough for anyone. On 25.02.09 08:49, Peter Laws wrote: > Like 640k of mem

Re: ARPA entries for a host with multiple IPs

2009-02-26 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 25.02.09 00:31, shulkae wrote: > My customer requested to add multiple IPs to a single name so that he > can use the round-robin feature of BIND to load-balance the service. > > The entry we added looks something as below: > > # more db.myzone > .. > .. > ws What is this? some specialized