Re: problem with bind book example

2009-09-24 Thread John Horne
On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 15:17 -0700, Linda W wrote: In my main config it's in the section: root . IN { type hint; file root.hint; }; I don't have the BIND book to hand, but that should be: zone . IN { John. -- John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752

Re: problem with bind book example

2009-09-24 Thread Kevin Darcy
Linda W wrote: I was trying to auto load the root hints file on a cron job. In the bind 4th ed. book, p 157, there's and example to use dig to create a a file it calls db.cache Specifically, the example is $ dig @a.root-servers.net . ns db.cache I wouldn't cron that _as_is_. You should

Re: SERVFAIL on Dig DKIM Record

2009-09-24 Thread Kevin Darcy
pdns1.ultradns.net is returning the SERVFAIL: $ dig bh._domainkey.edweek.org any @pdns1.ultradns.net ; DiG 9.3.0 bh._domainkey.edweek.org any @pdns1.ultradns.net ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 384 ;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER:

Re: SERVFAIL on Dig DKIM Record

2009-09-24 Thread brad
Thanks Kevin, but shouldn't I be able to get info from my DNS server for this record? I'm doing this and getting the SERVFAIL: dig @dns1.irides.com bh._domainkey.edweek.org NS On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Kevin Darcy k...@chrysler.com wrote: pdns1.ultradns.net is returning the SERVFAIL:

Re: SERVFAIL on Dig DKIM Record

2009-09-24 Thread Matthew Horsfall
brad wrote: Thanks Kevin, but shouldn't I be able to get info from my DNS server for this record? I'm doing this and getting the SERVFAIL: dig @dns1.irides.com http://dns1.irides.com bh._domainkey.edweek.org That's most likely because your nameserver is trying to recurse for you. Try this:

Re: SERVFAIL on Dig DKIM Record

2009-09-24 Thread Bradley Caricofe
Thanks guys... :^ ) On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Matthew Horsfall mhorsf...@dyn.comwrote: brad wrote: Thanks Kevin, but shouldn't I be able to get info from my DNS server for this record? I'm doing this and getting the SERVFAIL: dig @dns1.irides.com http://dns1.irides.com

Re: SERVFAIL on Dig DKIM Record

2009-09-24 Thread Kevin Darcy
The info from the zone itself is always considered better than the same information from a delegation, so named is going out and trying to fetch it. When it encounters the SERVFAIL it passes it back to the invoker. If you want to see the delegation record, put a +norec (no recurse) on the dig