Re: named-checkconf error

2008-12-08 Thread Chris Thompson
as far as using the resolver. Can you do host address lookups at all there? You can suppress the check by using -i local on named-checkzone (see the man page). But it would be better to fix the configuration problem, of course. -- Chris Thompson Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

GTLD servers still promoting glue to answer :-(

2008-12-10 Thread Chris Thompson
nameserver externally) reminds us -- for edu rather than com/net, but there can't really be a difference, can there? the nameservers are just a subset -- glue promotion is still happening. One has to wonder what soon means, -- Chris Thompson Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: is this a valid zone file?

2008-12-21 Thread Chris Thompson
to represent all the other usual stuff. After all, the SOA record isn't syntactically valid either. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: slave zone without file statement?

2009-01-04 Thread Chris Thompson
about them until it comes back. In fact, it's such a bad idea that I'm not really sure why BIND continues to allow omitting file for a type slave (or stub) zone, or at least why it doesn't issue a big fat warning about about it. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk

Warning compiling BIND 9.4.3 with ISC_SOCKET_USE_POLLWATCH defined

2009-01-04 Thread Chris Thompson
the resulting binary on a workstation without trouble, but it is under very light load there.) The C compiler is the Sun Studio 10 one, if that matters. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https

Re: 512 byte limit

2009-01-22 Thread Chris Thompson
the answer fit. Both entirely legal, of course. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: allow-query-cache and resolution time

2009-01-22 Thread Chris Thompson
debugging interfaces only]; }; recursion no; for our authoritative-only nameservers. (Some individual zones then have overrides on allow-query.) I think a lot of your confusion is due to thinking that the cache includes the authoritative zone data. It doesn't. -- Chris Thompson Email: c

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

2009-01-25 Thread Chris Thompson
2821 gives no sanction for that. Section 5.1 in RFC 5321 makes it even more explicit. You can, of course, turn off this particular check in BIND by specifying check-mx-cname ignore; in the options or zone statements. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk

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

2009-01-25 Thread Chris Thompson
._tcp for clients. But would this satisfy the OP? The RDATA of an SRV record isn't meant to reference a CNAME any more than that of an MX record is. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https

Re: Conflicting glue records?

2009-01-26 Thread Chris Thompson
the changes at the two registries mentioned. Weird huh? See promoting glue to answer, and the evils thereof, passim. In particular https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/bind-users/2008-December/074107.html https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/bind-users/2008-December/074164.html -- Chris Thompson Email: c

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: SERVFAIL from validating nameservers for advocaat.pro advocaten.pro

2009-02-05 Thread Chris Thompson
A records does not, and after that SOA and NS lookups work OK as well. Hmmm... -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: SERVFAIL from validating nameservers for advocaat.pro advocaten.pro

2009-02-07 Thread Chris Thompson
On Feb 6 2009, Mark Andrews wrote: In message prayer.1.3.1.0902051754210.4...@hermes-2.csi.cam.ac.uk, Chris Thompson writes: [...] More info about the not consistently bit. With nothing about them in the cache (rndc flushname advocaat.pro) looking up SOA or NS records for them gives SERVFAIL

Re: SRV Question

2009-02-11 Thread Chris Thompson
.host.com. _sip._udp.as.host.com. SRV 0 1 5060 as2.host.com. then a client is meant to try as1 2/3 of the time, and as2 1/3 of the time. The intended consequences of using a zero weight value are spelled out in detail in RFC 2782, but there is no need to rely on them. -- Chris Thompson Email: c

Abort in dig after zone transfer

2009-02-16 Thread Chris Thompson
to behave like this. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: rndc stats - 9.5.0-p2

2009-02-17 Thread Chris Thompson
be the difference on both? thank you Are you *sure* they are both running BIND 9.5.0-P2 ? Much the most likely explanation is that the one producing short statistics is a pre 9.5 version. I don't believe that BIND 9.5.x even includes any code to generate the old format. -- Chris Thompson Email: c

Re: Strange results from dnssec-dsfromkey

2009-02-18 Thread Chris Thompson
-up to say that ISC have kindly provided me with a fix that works: 2559. [bug] dnssec-dsfromkey could compute bad DS records when reading from a K* files. [RT #19357] which will presumably be in the next 9.6.x version. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk

Zone serial not being updated in statistics-channel view of zone

2009-02-21 Thread Chris Thompson
a bug? Do others see the same effect? -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Zone transfers of dlv.isc.org

2009-02-27 Thread Chris Thompson
Resurrecting part of a thread from last September, when I wrote: On Sep 23 2008, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 02:07:43PM +0100, Chris Thompson c...@hermes.cam.ac.uk wrote a message of 20 lines which said: [*] How do I know? Well dlv.isc.org uses NSEC records

Re: XFR quota setting?

2009-03-12 Thread Chris Thompson
could have stuck or nearly-stuck transfers going on. rndc status will tell you how many. You may need to adjust max-transfer-time-out/max-transfer-idle-out rather than transfers-out. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list

RE: PTR zone / VLSM issue

2009-03-16 Thread Chris Thompson
the naming convention used, you have to agree it with the delegating authority (unless you are in the happy position of *being* the delegating authority as well). All too likely, they will not offer you any choice in the matter. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk

Re: Bind Debug file question

2009-03-19 Thread Chris Thompson
is slightly different from a channel that you could set up yourself with severity dynamic. The latter would revert to severity info when you used rndc notrace, but default_debug magically turns itself off completely. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk

Re: ACL ?

2009-03-23 Thread Chris Thompson
(and should) test a new named.conf for syntax errors in advance by using the named-checkconf program. 2. BIND 9.2.2 is very very old. The whole of the 9.2.x series is EOL (and that was after 9.2.9). It's long past time that you upgraded. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk

ZSK rollover with BIND 9.6 and an automatically re-signed zone

2009-03-25 Thread Chris Thompson
TYPE65535 record. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: multi-named instance exist?

2009-03-26 Thread Chris Thompson
... But this is getting off-topic for bind-users. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: PTR for localhost

2009-03-26 Thread Chris Thompson
@ 86400 ::1 (db.localhost-rev) ; Like empty zone, but modified for reverse lookup of localhost (IPv4 or IPv6) @ 86400 SOA localhost. . 0 28800 7200 604800 86400 @ 0 NS localhost. @ 86400 PTR localhost. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk

Re: name server zone list

2009-04-03 Thread Chris Thompson
quite upset about the security implications. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: name server zone list

2009-04-03 Thread Chris Thompson
On Apr 3 2009, R Dicaire wrote: On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Chris Thompson c...@cam.ac.uk wrote: This one is hardy perennial, of course, but I've been working on an index zone in a certain local DNS context recently, and thinking how convenient it would have been if BIND had provided one

Re: name server zone list

2009-04-04 Thread Chris Thompson
On Apr 3 2009, Niall O'Reilly wrote: Or Google for vixie metazone (without the quotes). ... and it tells me I probably wanted to know about nosedrops (Vista-methasone) ... :-) [yes, OK, and some real links as well] -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk

BIND and Solaris rand()

2009-04-06 Thread Chris Thompson
the same thing already. Also, a suggestion to ISC that they use lrand48() on Solaris, in the same way as they use arc4random() if that is available. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https

RE: negative caching time and TTLs

2009-04-14 Thread Chris Thompson
caching? RFC 2308 is not clear. How could $TTL override the SOA's min TTL? The $TTL value doesn't exist in the compiled zone, and of course $TTL could occur many times in the input, with different arguments. Maybe you mean the TTL value of the SOA record or something like that? -- Chris Thompson

Re: Limit allow-transfer to key + IP

2009-04-14 Thread Chris Thompson
. Is there any way to limit the zone-transfer to require both key and known IP using allow-transfer? Yup. Use allow-transfer { !{!11.22.33.44}; key secret-key; }; Now sit down with a cold, cold drink and puzzle out why that works! -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk

Re: about $GENERATE Directive

2009-04-21 Thread Chris Thompson
inconsistent: since when has the rdata part of an A or record been a domain name? The real restriction seems to be that the rdata consists of a single lexical item. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org

Signing algorithms for rndc

2009-04-27 Thread Chris Thompson
It seems that even in the most recent versions of BIND, rndc supports only the hmac-md5 algorithm. Given that MD5 is being deprecated all over the place (I am thinking of draft-ietf-dnsext-tsig-md5-deprecated-02 in particular), is this wise? -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk

Re: nsupdate delete question

2009-04-30 Thread Chris Thompson
, is a perfectly reasonable requirement. What you need to do is to add a prereq requiring the RRset to exist (prereq yxrrset mandy11.example.com A) or for it to have particular contents (prereq yxrrset mandy11.example.com A 192.168.255.42) before it is deleted. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk

Are the TYPE65535 RRs necessary?

2009-05-18 Thread Chris Thompson
are the TYPE65535 records actually for? -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: Are the TYPE65535 RRs necessary?

2009-05-19 Thread Chris Thompson
for a deleted key, but are not required or used when resigning. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Why does key-directory have to be absolute?

2009-05-26 Thread Chris Thompson
BIND imposes the same restriction on the key-directory value as it does on directory, i.e. that it has to be an absolute path or .. I don't see why this should be necessary: why can't it be a path relative to the directory setting? (Just as file values in zone statements can be.) -- Chris

Re: Tracking down validation failures

2009-06-12 Thread Chris Thompson
On Jun 11 2009, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: On Thu, 11 Jun 2009, Chris Thompson wrote: We have recently turned on DNSSEC validation (using dlv.isc.org) in our main university-wide recursive nameservers, which are running BIND 9.6.1rc1. No-one is actually complaining, but the counts I am seeing

Re: Tracking down validation failures

2009-06-13 Thread Chris Thompson
nameservers. Just to expand on that a bit: the DS record in the parent zone correctly describes the KSK in the child zone, and the RRSIGs in 8.84.in-addr.arpa appear to be correct ... except that they all expired over 15 months ago! -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk

Re: Validating a DNSSEC installation

2009-06-16 Thread Chris Thompson
servers. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: bind 9.6.1 stats dump

2009-06-18 Thread Chris Thompson
in the ARM. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

RE: Dynamic DNS and Slave Servers

2009-06-19 Thread Chris Thompson
out an argument has such a wide-ranging effect that might not have been intended. rndc freezeall, say, would have been a better idea.) -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org

RE: can't query for RRSIG that references NSEC3

2009-06-24 Thread Chris Thompson
Responding to Queries for NSEC3 Owner Names mandates the response you are seeing. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: domain name length

2009-06-30 Thread Chris Thompson
can find a one-character TLD. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: host -t txt _domainkey.fakessh.eu. bitsy.mit.edu.

2009-07-01 Thread Chris Thompson
. - propagation of what? Who knows? But AFAIK MIT don't actually *intend* bitsy.mit.edu to be an open recursive nameserver, although it is one. (Somewhat worrying from our POV, as it's one of the official slaves for cam.ac.uk.) -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk

Adding first DNSKEY record with update (9.6.0 vs 9.6.1)

2009-07-14 Thread Chris Thompson
- if so I can't work out which entry in the CHANGES file it corresponds to. Both 9.6.0 and 9.6.1 give REFUSED if one attempts to delete the last KSK (although they let you remove all the ZSKs). -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing

Re: DNSKEY Validation

2009-07-15 Thread Chris Thompson
validation you can do on an RSASHA1 key record (the most popular type), absent the signatures that use it. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: Adding first DNSKEY record with update (9.6.0 vs 9.6.1)

2009-07-15 Thread Chris Thompson
On Jul 15 2009, Mark Andrews wrote: In message prayer.1.3.1.0907141701530.27...@hermes-2.csi.cam.ac.uk, Chris Thompson writes: In BIND 9.6.0 one could take an unsigned zone and add an initial KSK and ZSK to it using nsupdate (and if the right files were in the key directory, it would sign

BIND 9.6 freezing on update to signed zone (rare!)

2009-07-15 Thread Chris Thompson
. Unfortunately I failed to get a core dump of named in the non-responding state (I need to review my procedures for that!) so I haven't got enough to report to bind-bugs. This is an appeal to ask if anyone has seen anything similar. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk

Re: about cache nonexist record

2009-07-20 Thread Chris Thompson
for some time, even though the correct record has been added. How to deal with this case? Do the delete and the add in the same update transaction: nsupdate EOF update delete ... update add ... send EOF -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk

Re: Dig shows wrong ip

2009-07-28 Thread Chris Thompson
out DNSSEC, won't they? -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: idsable ipv6 in config?

2009-07-30 Thread Chris Thompson
to *reply* to v6 queries without *generating* them. (For the record, I have the same issue than Gilles.) Would server ::/0 { bogus yes; }; work? -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https

The Year of the Sevenfold Increase

2009-07-30 Thread Chris Thompson
, or will the numbers start dropping as higher-level domains get their signed delegation procedures going? Anyway, congratulations and thanks to ISC for providing this service. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users

Re: change NXDOMAIN to a A type response

2009-08-03 Thread Chris Thompson
draft-livingood-dns-redirect-00 over on the dnsop mailing list - see http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/dnsop -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: Dig shows wrong ip

2009-08-03 Thread Chris Thompson
On Aug 3 2009, Danny Mayer wrote: Chris Thompson wrote: [...] You are misinterpreting what I said. Of course erroneous glue needs to be corrected. But there is no need for the servers to return IP addresses provided for glue as an *answer* to a query, as the *.gtld-servers.net ones do, rather

Re: Dig shows wrong ip

2009-08-04 Thread Chris Thompson
On Aug 3 2009, JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 wrote: At 03 Aug 2009 11:52:10 +0100, Chris Thompson c...@cam.ac.uk wrote: will believe this answer (and cache it). This would only be proper behaviour if the *.gtld-servers.net were slaving (possibly stealth slaving) potomacnetworks.com - which of course

Re: Strange tiny time limit RRSIG

2009-08-14 Thread Chris Thompson
is (comfortably) later than the next time you expect to resign the zone in the same way. (I am assuming that you are using offline signing only.) -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org

Re: Strange tiny time limit RRSIG

2009-08-14 Thread Chris Thompson
On Aug 14 2009, Paul Wouters wrote: On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, Chris Thompson wrote: I'm running into a strange issue where when signing a zone with re-using signatures, that sometimes 1 RRSIG record ends up with a validity time of almost nothing. This happens for instance when signing (and re

Re: Strange tiny time limit RRSIG

2009-08-14 Thread Chris Thompson
only makes the interval less, by up to the -j amount, never more. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: BIND 9.x and hint file

2009-08-31 Thread Chris Thompson
hints file if you are using a fake root for a network isolated from the Internet. Otherwise, it's largely a matter of taste. Personally, I prefer to keep one in my configurations for the small amount of extra flexibility that provides. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk

Restarting named [was: Re: root and in-addr.arpa zone transfers]

2009-09-11 Thread Chris Thompson
for months without interruption. We hit our master once a day, in the early hours but that's just habit and I've always thought we were a bit hyperactive. I think so too. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind

Re: recursion on auth-only server

2009-09-21 Thread Chris Thompson
+norec when appropriate?). Query logging will help you track them down if you are really concerned. At 0.4%, I wouldn't worry. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman

*.dlv.isc.org DS: must be secure warnings [was: Re: 9.6.1-P1 log message]

2009-09-26 Thread Chris Thompson
to transient network errors or delays, but I have no idea whether they are likely to be local or at at the dlv.isc.org server end. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo

Somewhat OT: SOA serial wraparound and Windows DNS Server slaves

2009-09-29 Thread Chris Thompson
. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: DNSSEC

2009-09-29 Thread Chris Thompson
only be treated as a hint, anyway). What I would like to see is for more reverse zones to go away, by use of the scheme I describe in http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/cet1/prune-reverse-zones (There probably ought to be a date in that - it was written last April.) -- Chris Thompson Email: c

Re: DNSSEC

2009-09-30 Thread Chris Thompson
On Sep 30 2009, Mark Andrews wrote: In message prayer.1.3.2.0909291446310.21...@hermes-1.csi.cam.ac.uk, Chris Thompson writes: DNSSEC certainly adds to the aggravation of having lots of piddling little reverse zones. Some people may just decide not to bother signing reverse zones (reverse

Re: Feature or bug on $ORIGIN directive

2009-10-14 Thread Chris Thompson
-of-least-surprise that the same rules should apply to the $ORIGIN argument as well. And of course, there are people relying on that behavior as well, especially within $INCLUDE'd files. [*] Hi there, se TLD administrators! :-) -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk

Re: Problems with include in acl file

2009-10-18 Thread Chris Thompson
, options, logging, zone. But not acl because the elements there do not (in general) start with keywords. For the whole truth, you need to look at lib/isccfg/namedconf.c and lib/isccfg/parser.c and work out in exactly which cases cfg_parse_mapbody in the latter gets called :-( -- Chris Thompson Email

Re: ISC BIND 9.7.0b1 is now available

2009-10-28 Thread Chris Thompson
that it will be out before 9.7.0b2 is... -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: ISC BIND 9.7.0b1 is now available

2009-10-28 Thread Chris Thompson
). -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: Feature request - disable internal recursion cache

2009-10-30 Thread Chris Thompson
of clients to change their DNS resolver IP address. Put the authoritative-only nameservers at the new IP addresses, keeping the recursive ones at the original IP addresses. Been there, done that! -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users

Glitches when new entries appear in dlv.isc.org?

2009-11-03 Thread Chris Thompson
.) -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: PTR zone /28 not working

2009-11-05 Thread Chris Thompson
. You have a lot of errors to correct. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: BIND 9.4-ESVb1 is now available.

2009-11-19 Thread Chris Thompson
into 9.5.2.) -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: Disable Refused answer

2009-12-04 Thread Chris Thompson
. [It's never been entirely clear to me why these functions have to be combined, especially given that server [ipaddr/len] {bogus yes;}; can be used to block outgoing queries.] -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users

Re: BIND9 slave

2009-12-08 Thread Chris Thompson
-insensitivity). Ever since I first saw you recommend this, I have wondered why did I ever think TXT records were the right way to do it? ... -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org

Re: Handling of RSASHA256 and RSASHA512 in BIND 9.6.0 and BIND 9.6.0-P1

2009-12-15 Thread Chris Thompson
is fortunate timing. (But it's not too obvious to me that adding support for a new signing algorithm should necessarily be considered a major functional change.) -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users

Re: Delegating in reverse lookup zones

2009-12-15 Thread Chris Thompson
? -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: dnssec updated zone data is not live ??

2009-12-18 Thread Chris Thompson
transfers generally, at least allow them on the loopback interface.) Then start using masterfile-format raw, and forget about thinking of zone files are something human readable ... -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users

Re: recursion confusion

2010-01-08 Thread Chris Thompson
I have forgotten as well.) -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: Interoperability issues using TSIG with HMAC-SHA224

2010-01-11 Thread Chris Thompson
a shorter key and see if that works. Just to clarify, does this also apply to HMAC-MD5 (block size = 64 bytes, digest size = 16 bytes) ? -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman

Re: file descriptor limits eating my lunch

2010-01-12 Thread Chris Thompson
is what I know: running 'pfiles' on named on the two complaining show 1023 files the happy ones are showing less than that. This tells me there's a limit of 1024 somewhere. [... rest snipped ...] -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users

Re: Handling of RSASHA256 and RSASHA512 in BIND 9.6.0 and BIND 9.6.0-P1

2010-01-14 Thread Chris Thompson
voice heard. We hear you. Expect a decision in the next few days. So, has the decision been made? [I am tentatively planning on going to 9.7 in production round about Easter, in good time for the RSASHA256-signed root zone in July, but it would be nice to have a fall-back option.] -- Chris

Re: ISC BIND 9.6.1-P3 is now available

2010-01-19 Thread Chris Thompson
or was invalid. But the CHANGES files list *three* security fixes (2827, 2828 2831), none of which seem to be superficially the same vulnerability. So is the two above a mistake? -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users

BIND 9.6.1-P3 using more resources?

2010-01-22 Thread Chris Thompson
in the query pattern that might explain this, without success so far. If anyone else has seen a similar effect as a result of upgrading, please let me know. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org

Re: BIND 9.6.1-P3 using more resources?

2010-01-24 Thread Chris Thompson
not to be the case ... (Using -m record was motivated by a unfreed-memory-at-shutdown abort that we observed with 9.6.1-P1 -- and not since -- and reported on bind9-bugs as RT #20675.) -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list

Re: DNSSEC DSSET KEYSET

2010-01-28 Thread Chris Thompson
(where the DLV records always come in pairs with digesttype=1 and digesttype=2). [Self registration at dlv.isc.org asks for DNSKEY records in the first place, of course.] -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users

Re: DNSSEC DSSET KEYSET

2010-01-28 Thread Chris Thompson
there be an additional @parent.name.server argument? Not necessary if the nameserver you are sending the dig request to is DNSSEC-aware, and therefore following RFC 4035 section 3.1.4.1. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list

Re: Queries for NSEC3 hashed owner names

2010-02-04 Thread Chris Thompson
is faked ... -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: Supporting large caches ( 4GB) in BIND?

2010-02-15 Thread Chris Thompson
; Regardless of Shumon's particular case, this looks like something that is going to bite more nameservers in the next few years, as caches expand to accommodate increasing numbers of RRSIG records (which are not small). -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk

Re: What does func refer to in announce list archives

2010-02-20 Thread Chris Thompson
clear ... :-) The explanations are just my guesses, of course. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: Differences between 9.3 and later versions

2010-02-23 Thread Chris Thompson
, though). -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: OpenDNS today announced it has adopted DNSCurve to secure DNS

2010-02-24 Thread Chris Thompson
? -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: Help with logrotate and bind

2010-03-01 Thread Chris Thompson
rndc command? -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: dnsquery for Solaris

2010-03-09 Thread Chris Thompson
that). -- Chris Thompson University of Cambridge Computing Service, Email: c...@ucs.cam.ac.ukNew Museums Site, Cambridge CB2 3QH, Phone: +44 1223 334715 United Kingdom. ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https

Re: dnsquery for Solaris

2010-03-10 Thread Chris Thompson
as bad as still running BIND 8. Not *quite* ... :-) -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: no more recursive clients: quota reached

2010-03-24 Thread Chris Thompson
problems, as others have suggested. And firewall software might be mangling certain outgoing queries, or the responses to them, making them appear to time out. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org

Reverse lookup failing when arpa.dlv.isc.org appeared

2010-03-25 Thread Chris Thompson
earlier. Of course, in an ideal world I would have taken cache dumps, etc, but these are operationally significant servers and it was more important to get reverse lookup working again asap. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list

Re: Reverse lookup failing when arpa.dlv.isc.org appeared

2010-03-31 Thread Chris Thompson
On Mar 27 2010, Michael Sinatra wrote: On 03/25/10 05:21, Chris Thompson wrote: I'll be reporting this to bind-bugs, but I thought I would mention it here in case others can confirm the effect. Our two main ecursive nameservers used DNSSEC validation via dlv.isc.org. In the past we have had

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