Sharing zones between views to conserve memory

2013-01-09 Thread Jan Gutter
Hi I've come across an interesting scalability issue with regards to how our organization uses BIND. I'm putting up the question here, but I have a sneaky suspicion that I'll have to solve this problem in the source code. The way we use BIND seems to be slightly non-obvious, and I'm really after

Re: lame-servers: error (FORMERR) resolving [something]

2013-01-09 Thread Daniele
This is the scenario. I installed BIND9 via `apt-get` on a newly installed UBUNTU 12.04, virtualized on VirtualBox. The network works properly because if I indicate a different server from my own BIND9 (the first line of '/etc/resolv.conf' is, for example, `nameserver 8.8.8.8`) the lookups and

Re: Name resolution fails if not forwarding

2013-01-09 Thread Daniele
This is the scenario. I installed BIND9 via `apt-get` on a newly installed UBUNTU 12.04, virtualized on VirtualBox. The network works properly because if I indicate a different server from my own BIND9 (the first line of '/etc/resolv.conf' is, for example, `nameserver 8.8.8.8`) the lookups and

Re: lame-servers: error (FORMERR) resolving [something]

2013-01-09 Thread Phil Mayers
On 09/01/13 13:53, Daniele wrote: This is the scenario. I installed BIND9 via `apt-get` on a newly installed UBUNTU 12.04, virtualized on VirtualBox. The network works properly because if I indicate a different server from my own BIND9 (the first line of '/etc/resolv.conf' is, for example,

Re: lame-servers: error (FORMERR) resolving [something]

2013-01-09 Thread Daniele
2013/1/9 Phil Mayers p.may...@imperial.ac.uk On 09/01/13 13:53, Daniele wrote: This is the scenario. I installed BIND9 via `apt-get` on a newly installed UBUNTU 12.04, virtualized on VirtualBox. The network works properly because if I indicate a different server from my own BIND9 (the

Re: Sharing zones between views to conserve memory

2013-01-09 Thread Carl Byington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 2013-01-09 at 14:37 +0200, Jan Gutter wrote: So, here's my question: is there a way to share zones between views to conserve memory? One way is to put the master copy of those large zones in one view, then define those zones in the other

Re: set directory for auto key files

2013-01-09 Thread Tony Finch
Chris Thompson c...@cam.ac.uk wrote: One slight niggling disadvantage is that you can't tell named-checkzone / named-compilezone with the -j option where to find the journal is it isn't in the default location. I submited a patch to add a -J option which addresses this problem. (RT #30958)

Re: Name resolution fails if not forwarding

2013-01-09 Thread Mike Hoskins (michoski)
-Original Message- From: Daniele d.imbrog...@gmail.com Date: Wednesday, January 9, 2013 9:17 AM To: bind-users@lists.isc.org bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: Re: Name resolution fails if not forwarding This is the scenario. I installed BIND9 via `apt-get` on a newly installed UBUNTU

Re: gitnamed, a project to manage name server by git

2013-01-09 Thread 彭勇
updated, i add a hook to validate and auto incement serial of SOA Feature of GitNamed a frame to manage your DNS server put all your DNS data into git, and you have a revision for your DNS data, you can backup and restore them easily it's easy to manage your DNS resource record, just edit and

Re: query about EDNS UDP Packet

2013-01-09 Thread Mike Hoskins (michoski)
-Original Message- From: Gaurav Kansal gaurav.kan...@nic.in Date: Wednesday, January 9, 2013 12:34 AM To: Sten Carlsen st...@s-carlsen.dk, bind-users@lists.isc.org bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: Re: query about EDNS UDP Packet Thanks for help. My Firewall was dropping packet size

replysize problem

2013-01-09 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
Anybody know anything about F5 Big-IPs? I was doing the replysize test on various DNS servers that I maintain, and found two are reporting a replysize limit less than 3843 (the result that I get for all my other DNS servers.) And, with those two, they will alternate between a limit that is a

Re: lame-servers: error (FORMERR) resolving [something]

2013-01-09 Thread Lyle Giese
On 01/09/13 08:39, Daniele wrote: 2013/1/9 Phil Mayers p.may...@imperial.ac.uk mailto:p.may...@imperial.ac.uk On 09/01/13 13:53, Daniele wrote: This is the scenario. I installed BIND9 via `apt-get` on a newly installed UBUNTU 12.04, virtualized on VirtualBox.

Re: Name resolution fails if not forwarding

2013-01-09 Thread Doug Barton
On 01/09/2013 06:17 AM, Daniele wrote: I installed BIND9 via `apt-get` on a newly installed UBUNTU 12.04, virtualized on VirtualBox. Make sure you've disabled the built-in dnsmasq instance on the Ubuntu system. ___ Please visit

Re: Sharing zones between views to conserve memory

2013-01-09 Thread Sten Carlsen
IIRC provided you do NOT update the common zones dynamically, you can share the files. This is a dirty solution, the risk is that on e view may change a file and the other views using it will be out of sync. On 10/01/13 0:34, Kevin Darcy wrote: On 1/9/2013 10:57 AM, Carl Byington wrote:

Re: set directory for auto key files

2013-01-09 Thread Evan Hunt
On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 03:59:51PM +, Tony Finch wrote: Chris Thompson c...@cam.ac.uk wrote: One slight niggling disadvantage is that you can't tell named-checkzone / named-compilezone with the -j option where to find the journal is it isn't in the default location. I submited a