9.9 query log change

2012-01-15 Thread Chris Thompson
new, but seems always to be the same as the later query name. What is it for? If it meant to be the name of the client it has got it horribly wrong! The ARM for 9.9.0rc1 still describes the old format. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ Please

Re: RFC 6303 vs. BIND: NS ... has no address records (A or AAAA)

2012-01-11 Thread Chris Thompson
invalid" as the SOA.rname, but BIND still uses "." for empty zones (apparently even in 9.9.0rc1). I imagine we will change that if/when BINS does. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listin

Re: Exercising RFC 5011 rollovers

2012-01-09 Thread Chris Thompson
27;t really meant to perform this experiment at this time... it happened as a result of specifying a set of key publication and activation times in January 2011 when January 2012 was intended :-) -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ Please visit h

Re: Fwd: Re: .TLD minimum number of nameservers rule

2011-12-15 Thread Chris Thompson
han my one from RFC 1035. How did I miss it? Well, it turns out that the word "two" above occurs at the beginning of a line in rfc1034.txt, and I was searching for the string " two" ... :-( [Too many false drops if you search for just the three-character string, because of

Re: .TLD minimum number of nameservers rule

2011-12-12 Thread Chris Thompson
"How many secondaries?": | The DNS specification and domain name registration rules require at | least two servers for every zone. before going on to recommend more than two in most cases. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ Please visit h

Re: Update to BIND query.c CVE-2011-4313

2011-12-05 Thread Chris Thompson
"gov", just because the early reports were from the US and no-one around here seems to have had their recursive nameservers crash. [We upgraded to BIND 9.8.1-P1 anyway, of course.] -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ Please visit

Re: How to identify a "raw" zone file

2011-12-02 Thread Chris Thompson
the new raw format (e.g. as a result of dynamic updates), then one would have a problem backing off to earlier BIND versions? -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscr

Re: 9.9.0b2 Key Expiration Question

2011-12-01 Thread Chris Thompson
gorithm represented in the DNSKEY RRset: at least one KSK | and one ZSK per algorithm. If there is any algorithm for which this | requirement is not met, this option will be ignored for that algorithm. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ Please visit

Choosing max-journal-size

2011-11-29 Thread Chris Thompson
subject to negotiation!) to provide automatic scaling according to the size of the zone. Do other people have this problem? Any other ideas? -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubsc

Exercising RFC 5011 rollovers

2011-11-25 Thread Chris Thompson
ry to perform an RFC 5011 rollover on it, using dnssec-revoke and/or the -R option of dnssec-settime, meanwhile tracking it on another system via a managed-keys entry, but then if it all went pear-shaped it might not be clear whether I had performed the rollover correctly or not. -- Chris Thompson E

Re: Bind 9.9.0b2 inline signing...

2011-11-24 Thread Chris Thompson
y's ad hoc command into something publishable, it would be better to use dig +nocmd +nostats +onesoa AXFR zone | awk ... (although for +onesoa you need the dig from BIND 9.8 or later). -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ Please visit https://lists.

Re: Syncing DNS zones with different names

2011-11-15 Thread Chris Thompson
quot;relative" (to the zone) or "non-absolute" rather than "unqualified" there. Also, don't do this if you are using dynamic updates on either zone, or the shared zone file will end up in a horrible mess. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk __

Re: several master ip's for a slave zone

2011-11-06 Thread Chris Thompson
fetch from B" is acyclic. Otherwise servers can get into the state that A thinks its copy of the zone is up to date because B told it so, and B thinks so because A told it so (or longer loops, of course), while neither of them are true masters for it.

Re: DNSSEC and forward zones

2011-11-02 Thread Chris Thompson
On Nov 2 2011, Jan-Piet Mens wrote: Note, the new .XXX TLD is included in that list. Does that mean it is or isn't safe for work? ;-) It depends on whether the XXX TLD acquires a signed delegation or not. (Presumably it should, as you wouldn't want to get the *wrong* porn ...)

Re: NS also in SOA doesn't get NOTIFY

2011-10-27 Thread Chris Thompson
imes, however, a slave is listed as the SOA MNAME in | hidden master configurations and in that case you would want the | ultimate master to still send NOTIFY messages to all the nameservers | listed in the NS RRset. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk _

Re: dispatch - permission denied

2011-10-26 Thread Chris Thompson
ons: use-v4-udp-ports { range 32768 65535; }; use-v6-udp-ports { range 32768 65535; }; This is the same as the (default) anonymous port range. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to

Re: intermittent bad horizontal referral?

2011-10-18 Thread Chris Thompson
27;t respond) rather than 116.197.146.5. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: DNS Sinkhole in BIND

2011-10-17 Thread Chris Thompson
refers to redirecting names that are being used for evil purposes to e.g. a local monitoring station - not the same thing at all. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from

Re: CNAME record for the root of the domain

2011-10-17 Thread Chris Thompson
egal) nor one in the parent would have the effect of a "CNAME at the apex". A *CNAME* in the parent would, but only as long as you didn't mind losing all the rest of the zone. 2. Use a A (and other records as needed) instead of a CNAME. This is, of course, the usual solution. -- C

Re: Experience with DDNS (RFC 2136)

2011-10-11 Thread Chris Thompson
quite seriously about using it for the re-implementation of the hidden master for our "managed zone service" (for vanity domains, although that's not how we describe them to the punters), but even there it didn't work out, primarily for Phil's reasons #5 and #6.

Re: expected covering NSEC3, got an exact match

2011-10-07 Thread Chris Thompson
Has anyone any clues about this one? Or observed anything similar? We never did manage to track down exactly what was wrong with the NSEC3 records, but the problem seems to have been cured by the zone signer being upgraded from OpenDNSSEC 1.2.1 to 1.3.2. -- Chris Thompson Email:

Re: Experience with DDNS (RFC 2136)

2011-10-06 Thread Chris Thompson
while you are at it). Use update operations for (very nearly) everything. [*] in the absence of my long-sig, which I don't use on this list: "we" is the University Computing Service in the University of Cambridge, England. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___

Re: True queries per second?

2011-09-28 Thread Chris Thompson
all types of queries, I would perform calculations on this number, correct? If you are interested in queries per second sent to the nameserver, yes. (This doesn't of course necessarily mean queries successfully responded to from the client

expected covering NSEC3, got an exact match

2011-09-22 Thread Chris Thompson
ut this one? Or observed anything similar? -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailma

Re: Bug in Bind 9.8 or am I doing something wrong?

2011-09-07 Thread Chris Thompson
On Sep 6 2011, Mark Andrews wrote: [...] Named doesn't yet have the ability to disable DNSSEC validation for specified namespaces. "Yet"? Is there a hint of a future change there? -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ Ple

Re: RE: what does dig +trace do?

2011-08-31 Thread Chris Thompson
ional". -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: RFC 6303 and automatic empty zones

2011-08-20 Thread Chris Thompson
'empty-zones-enable/disable-empty-zone' not set: disabling RFC 1918 empty zones Apologies for going into nitty detail here, but their half-way status isn't described in the ARM (yet?) and I had to work it out for myself ... -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk _

Re: ttl for negative responses is not following rfc2308

2011-08-19 Thread Chris Thompson
's default cutoff value of 3 hours can be altered by using max-ncache-ttl option if you need to. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users ma

Re: epza.gov.tw. MX

2011-08-08 Thread Chris Thompson
d instead would work, but of course what is really needed is to get the delegation in step with the zone itself. Having more than one nameserver for the zone wouldn't be a bad idea, either ... -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk __

Re: Is there a way to disable dnssec validation for a single zone?

2011-08-05 Thread Chris Thompson
er, reflecting a belief that (a) it would be misused and/or (b) even local zones should be signed anyway? -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users ma

Re: AAAA type query invalidates A records in name server cache

2011-07-19 Thread Chris Thompson
rted it to dnsad...@dell.com on 28 June. Deafening silence. They should be returning "nodata" rather than NXDOMAIN for the query, of course. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-

Re: ISC BIND 9.8.1b3 is now available

2011-07-16 Thread Chris Thompson
On Jul 16 2011, Evan Hunt wrote: BIND 9.8.1b3 is the third beta release of BIND 9.8. I am a bit intrigued by this entry in the CHANGES file 3133. [bug] Change #3114 was incomplete. [RT #24577] as I can't find a reference to #3114 or RT #24577 anywhere else... --

bind9.xsl vs. /bind9.xsl

2011-07-14 Thread Chris Thompson
g bind9.xsl from the distribution into the top level of the DOCUMENTROOT, but it's nigglingly annoying. So is there anything that could go wrong if the style sheet reference *was* relative rather than absolute? -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk _

RFC 6303 and automatic empty zones

2011-07-14 Thread Chris Thompson
Now that RFC 6303 <http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6303.txt> has been published, and includes the fourteen RFC 1918 reverse zones (section 4.1), can we expect future versions of BIND to have them as automatic empty zones - i.e. the "#ifdef notyet" in bin/named/server.c to disa

Re: session.key and managed-keys

2011-07-11 Thread Chris Thompson
date -l" (see the ARM for details). BIND always writes a new session key at startup whether it's going to be used or not. If you don't want it, and it is trying to write it somwehere it can't, specify an alternative writable location (e.g. in BIND's working directory) with &q

Re: Slow list

2011-07-05 Thread Chris Thompson
there was delay of over 3 hours between webster receiving the message and passing it on. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list

Re: Bind 9.8.0 intermittent problem with non-recursive responses

2011-06-30 Thread Chris Thompson
nerally available at this time. Black hats are, after all, listening to us.) Upgrade, in any case, if you can. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bin

Re: nameserver registration

2011-06-18 Thread Chris Thompson
. NS ns2.foo.com. Neither seems to to need glue in either "com" or "net", but without either the domains cannot be resolved. This was a significant issue when VeriSign changed the way the *.gltd-servers.net responded last year. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk

Re: I can't resolve one domain: nhs.uk

2011-06-17 Thread Chris Thompson
7-Jun-2011 That's just a peculiarity of whois.nic.uk. It only understands (acceptable) 3rd-level domain names under the 2nd-level ones that Nominet manage. There are 18 sub-domains of "uk", only 8 of which are managed by Nominet. "nhs.uk" is one of the othe

Re: Does the CVE-2011-1910 vulnerability affect the BIND 9.7.0-P2?

2011-06-10 Thread Chris Thompson
nt16 + uint8) but you only checked there is place for two bytes, which is the bug. Yes - I really should have seen that! And of course, when I look back at what my source at ISC (sorry, Evan) *actually* said, those lines *were* all included. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___

Re: Does the CVE-2011-1910 vulnerability affect the BIND 9.7.0-P2?

2011-06-10 Thread Chris Thompson
rtainly have that code. -- 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: ns.il cname?

2011-06-03 Thread Chris Thompson
ce of the CNAME ns.il does not affect the perfectly good A record for (e.g.) nse.ns.il in any way. -- 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: Why DNSSEC errors for bund.de?

2011-05-27 Thread Chris Thompson
To follow up on this thread (there's been much more about it on DNS-OARC than here), it was a bug that is fixed (change 3020) together with the more serious security problem (change 3121) in the new BIND versions 9.6-ESV-R4-P1, 9.7.3-P1 and 9.8.0-P2. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.

Re: Deny MX query

2011-05-25 Thread Chris Thompson
absolutely no clarification from the Original Poster as to what the he was on about, I suggest speculation on this point is moot. -- 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: Why DNSSEC errors for bund.de?

2011-05-24 Thread Chris Thompson
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: Why DNSSEC errors for bund.de?

2011-05-24 Thread Chris Thompson
oddities: dig +dnssec dnskey [zone] gives the right answer *without* the ad bit dig +dnssec soa [zone] gives SERVFAIL, unless +cd is used 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

Why DNSSEC errors for bund.de?

2011-05-24 Thread Chris Thompson
23 -> ZSK with tag 4814), should it? It may be significant that this problem was reported to us on the same day that obscured DNSKEY records were introduced into the "de" zone... -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing

Re: dnssec-keygen with different activation date

2011-05-21 Thread Chris Thompson
readable versions in the .key files are in the timezone in which dnssec-keygen or dnssec-settime was run ... which might not be the same as that on the nameserver on which they are subsequently deployed. But only the numeric UTC versions have any effect on the actual behavior of BIND. -- Chr

Re: DNSSEC submit of DLV vs DNSKEY records?

2011-05-06 Thread Chris Thompson
.131.in-addr.arpa) do now have DNSSEC chains of trust all the way from the root zone. But I haven't removed their entries from dlv.isc.org yet, and in fact am still quite undecided as to when it will be appropriate to do so. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk

Re: how to check if a slave zone is expired

2011-05-05 Thread Chris Thompson
th the modification times of the master files. But sadly, it didn't ... -- 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: does authority named require the external name servers?

2011-05-02 Thread Chris Thompson
oot hints (compiled in or otherwise), not by using the OS resolver. -- 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: continous DNS query to ROOT DNS server

2011-04-26 Thread Chris Thompson
even in 9.8.0, without source modifications)? Referencing RFC 3330 muddies the issue even more, as most of the addresses listed there, *except* the RFC 1918 ones, *are* covered by automatic empty zones. I think ISC need to do a bit of work on the documentation here. -- Chris Thompson University

Re: DNSSEC, whitehouse, isc, and troubleshooting...

2011-04-18 Thread Chris Thompson
"dig +dnssec ns whitehouse.gov" and you should see the ad flag. (Anyway, it's working for me at the moment.) Or even "dig +dnssec cname www.whitehouse.gov". The CNAME is signed, its target isn't. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk _

Re: question on minimal file permissions

2011-04-18 Thread Chris Thompson
OTOH, journal files are updated in place, as well as new versions being created and renamed when they are shortened. -- 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: AW: ipv6 PTR in zone file

2011-04-12 Thread Chris Thompson
rpa | tail -1 | awk '{print $1}' Oh, yuck. There is a perfectly good program shipped with BIND to do this: $ type arpaname arpaname is /usr/local/sbin/arpaname $ arpaname 2001:7b8:c05::80:1 1.0.0.0.0.8.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.0.C.0.8.B.7.0.1.0.0.2.IP6.ARPA -- Chris Thompson E

Re: Change Query Type on nslookup

2011-04-07 Thread Chris Thompson
sing your favorite shell. The real answer to the OP, I'm afraid, is RTFM. The (horrible) syntax of nslookup option settings is perfectly well described in its man page. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@

Re: FORMERR for wikipedia...

2011-03-17 Thread Chris Thompson
d referral. Distinguishing these is a sensitive business, as RFC 2308 section 2.2 explains. -- 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: IXFR & manually edited zone files

2011-03-07 Thread Chris Thompson
to check it contains what you hope for. If those look OK, then it's something else in the configuration of either master or slaves. I take it you aren't doing anything as obvious as specifying "request-ixfr no" or "provide-ixfr no" in server statements. -- Chris Thompson

Re: Threaded bind on CentOS

2011-02-24 Thread Chris Thompson
eping" threads, but I would like to know what, exactly, those threads do. This is standard in any threaded BIND - it isn't specific to your OS. There are $N worker threads and 3 overhead/management ones. I wouldn't mind a description of the latter from ISC myself ... -- Chr

Re: root zone initial key in bind.keys

2011-02-23 Thread Chris Thompson
t;dnssec-lookaside auto". It ends up with trust anchors for both the root and dlv.isc.org, as shown by all of * rndc secroots * what appears in managed-keys.bind * "ad" bit on appropriate "dig +dnssec" calls which sort of convinces me ... :-) -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@c

Re: root zone initial key in bind.keys

2011-02-23 Thread Chris Thompson
rue!). Personally, on production servers, I would rather not rely on what ISC are doing with this file, but have my own managed-keys statement and avoid "dnssec-lookaside auto;". -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bin

Re: Strange error from nsupdate

2011-02-14 Thread Chris Thompson
On Feb 14 2011, Chris Buxton wrote: On Feb 14, 2011, at 6:31 AM, Chris Thompson wrote: We are running BIND 9.7.2-P3, and update our zones with nsupdate calls that look like this: nsupdate -v -k keys/update-key <[input] >/dev/null 2>[errors] This is run from a Solaris 10_x86 non-glo

Strange error from nsupdate

2011-02-14 Thread Chris Thompson
dns_dispatch_getudp (v4): permission denied This seems to strike at random, and goes away on retrying the same nsupdate call. What's really strange here is that nsupdate is being told to use TCP (the -v option), so why is it messing around with UDP? Has anyone else seen this? -- Chris Thomps

Re: syntax/format of zone on slave $ORIGIN/paragraph - sorted?

2011-02-10 Thread Chris Thompson
.ac.uk. preview CNAME cms.admin.cam.ac.uk. $ORIGIN admin.cam.ac.uk. could have been replaced by preview.blogCNAME cms just as in the latter case. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-user

Re: syntax/format of zone on slave $ORIGIN/paragraph - sorted?

2011-02-09 Thread Chris Thompson
automatically by a separate script. On the other hand, the relative format is more human-readable and is thus suitable for editing by hand. "More" does not mean "very", as you have noticed :-) -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk _

Re: bind makes RRSIG disappear?

2011-02-06 Thread Chris Thompson
ll take it that you want it to do resigning as the RRSIGs approach expiry. -- 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: Please upgrade validators to at least BIND-9.7.2 before .com is signed

2011-02-03 Thread Chris Thompson
t; should cure that particular case. (Well, it worked for us for other TLDs, back when we were still using 9.6.2 last year.) -- 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: root hints

2011-01-26 Thread Chris Thompson
ory that BIND 8 ever had compiled-in hints. -- 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: CHANGES file for new releases [was: Re: BIND 9.7.3b1 is now available]

2011-01-25 Thread Chris Thompson
On Dec 24 2010, Mark Andrews wrote: I've extracted the CHANGES files for BIND 9.6.3b1, BIND 9.7.3b1 and BIND 9.8.0a1 and put them in relevant directories on ftp.isc.org. Thanks, but ... It would be helpful if this happened for all new versions. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.

Re: DNSKEY NODATA responses not cached

2011-01-11 Thread Chris Thompson
NSKEY" count in the statistics display, but a new request goes back to the authoritative servers again anyway, as shown by the outgoing queries count and by the SOA in the authority section of the NODATA response having its original value. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...

CHANGES file for new releases [was: Re: BIND 9.7.3b1 is now available]

2010-12-23 Thread Chris Thompson
I am sure some people like the new Release Notes section in these announcements (or the RELEASE-NOTES-* files at ftp.isc.bind), but can we have some easier way of getting hold of the CHANGES file for a new release than downloading the whole thing and picking it out? -- Chris Thompson Email: c

Re: dnssec-lookaside != auto

2010-12-19 Thread Chris Thompson
to be rolled over without a lot of publicity, and the managed-keys code still has the bug described at https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/bind-users/2010-October/081399.html -- 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: "can't validate existing negative responses (not a zone cut)" messages

2010-12-06 Thread Chris Thompson
r got anything from ISC. After upgrading to BIND 9.7.2-P3, they appear to have gone away, so I presume one of the changes (maybe 2970) has fixed them. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.is

Re: How rndc flushname a TXT or SPF record?

2010-11-22 Thread Chris Thompson
tion in BIND. "rndc flush" discards the entire cache. "rndc flushname [name]" discards all records with that specific name, regardless of type. (All this per-view, if you use views.) -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bin

Re: DNSSEC and Bind 9.3.6

2010-11-03 Thread Chris Thompson
metimes other fixes from later releases have applied. But I very much doubt that you will find anyone distributing a "9.3" version that has anything like modern support for DNSSEC. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mai

Re: "can't validate existing negative responses (not a zone cut)" messages

2010-10-24 Thread Chris Thompson
On Oct 22 2010, Tony Finch wrote: On Sun, 3 Oct 2010, Chris Thompson wrote: Oct 3 16:53:10 dnssec: warning: validating @14c9cd70: 98.206.101.95.IN-ADDR.ARPA PTR: can't validate existing negative responses (not a zone cut) What do they mean, exactly? And should I be worrying about

Re: managed-keys.bind sometimes stops being updated

2010-10-07 Thread Chris Thompson
both 9.7.1-P2 and 9.7.2-P2. Is this a known problem? Has anyone else observed it? It turns out this is quite easy to reproduce, and "rndc reconfig" even with no change to named.conf reliably causes it. I have reported it to bind9-b...@isc.org (RT 22296). -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@c

Re: OT: Propagation of my NS records?

2010-10-04 Thread Chris Thompson
m enigmedia.com Just as you would if you were changing NS records. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

"can't validate existing negative responses (not a zone cut)" messages

2010-10-03 Thread Chris Thompson
m to refer to PTR records (not all of them for IP addresses in 95.101/16, but many of them are). -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

managed-keys.bind sometimes stops being updated

2010-10-03 Thread Chris Thompson
ting simply stops completely, until BIND is restarted. The trust anchors go on being used OK, and "rndc secroots" still shows them as "managed". The effect seems to be associated with having used "rndc reconfig", and I have observed it with both 9.7.1-P2 and 9.7

Re: Where is managed-keys.bind ?

2010-10-01 Thread Chris Thompson
BIND is restarted. An empty file managed-keys.bind in BIND's working directory will get it to shut up. -- 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: cant update 'cz'

2010-08-28 Thread Chris Thompson
for it added to the root zone, and has been removed from the ITAR. It's actually been gone from the ITAR for at least a couple of weeks: if you are generating trust anchors from the ITAR you need to fetch and reprocess it (much) more often. Things are changing very fas

Re: zero SOA TTL - still best practice?

2010-08-26 Thread Chris Thompson
time should be limited and, if so, to how many MINUTES. Hence BIND's default max-ncache-ttl of 3 hours. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

odbc.ucas.com lookup problem

2010-07-20 Thread Chris Thompson
39]: [ID 873579 daemon.notice] DNS format error from 194.80.160.250#53 resolving odbc.ucas.com/ for client 127.0.0.1#42869: invalid response However, I haven't yet been able to work out exactly *what* is wrong with the response, as demonstrated by dig (say). Any ideas? -- Chris Thompson E

Re: ad flag for RRSIG queries

2010-07-14 Thread Chris Thompson
or A, and SSHFP types) that got into its cache, and it does set the "ad" bit in that response. -- 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: Split view - differing SOA serial number

2010-07-08 Thread Chris Thompson
a) to both views as well? It applies to any file that BIND *updates* - hence including files for slave zones, or for master zones that are dynamically updated. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc

Re: BIND 9.7.1-P1 planned to address issues in BIND 9.7.0 and 9.7.1

2010-07-05 Thread Chris Thompson
ld be very helpful for those of us contemplating a move from BIND 9.6 to 9.7 to know more about 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: SRV record question

2010-06-16 Thread Chris Thompson
_caldev._tcp.caldev SRV 10 10 80 server in your (example.com) zone file. The first component is the protocol specifier, the third is the (initial component of) the service name. And such a SRV record can co-exist with your existing CNAME for caldev.example.com, which is just as well while the

Re: the one A record that must be in a Zone

2010-06-15 Thread Chris Thompson
URL itself.) There isn't any good solution to the problem. One possibility is to have the apex A records all point to an http redirecting service that adds the "www." (this assumes HTTP/1.1, but that's surely safe these days). Then you only have one IP ad

Re: DNSSEC / DLV for 2001:8b0:151:1:e2cb:4eff:fe26:6481

2010-06-02 Thread Chris Thompson
e.f.f.f.f.d.e.1.a.f.1.0.0.0.1.5.1.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa/dnssec/ What am I doing wrong? Nothing that I can see. Maybe dnsviz can't cope with multiple PTR records in an RRset, as your first case has? (On the other hand it handles multiple A records in forward zones OK.) -- Chr

Re: dnssec dlv

2010-05-21 Thread Chris Thompson
ed for a decent length of time. -- 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: using TXT fields

2010-05-18 Thread Chris Thompson
On May 18 2010, fddi wrote: I wanted to ask if using TXT fields can have some bad implication security issues It rather depends what you put in them, doesn't it? hostname TXT "Root password is AndyPandy" mc-room TXT "Entacode is 2038" ... -- Chris Thomp

rndc flush(more-than-one)name

2010-05-12 Thread Chris Thompson
t of flushing the whole cache). Of course, it would be possible to invent arbitrarily refined variants on this theme - in this case what was wanted was "flush all negative answers for names matching [f-z]*.de" - but maybe not very productively. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___

RE: Dig 9.7 DNSSEC output

2010-05-09 Thread Chris Thompson
ave to use +dnssec to get this apparent-mismatch effect: +buf=... or +edns=... are enough. -- 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: Master server offline

2010-05-08 Thread Chris Thompson as IP Register
On May 7 2010, Peter Laws wrote: On 05/07/10 06:49, Chris Thompson wrote: Sure - just step into your time machine, go back to before the master server died, and increase the SOA.expire value there so that it gets propagated to the slave(s) in time. If he has a small number of slaves, the OP

Re: Master server offline

2010-05-07 Thread Chris Thompson
ire period before the old signature is due to expire. With BIND's defaults of a 30-day signature validity period and resigning 3/4 of the way through that, an SOA.expire period of 1 week works out quite nicely. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___

RE: Preparing for upcoming DNSSEC changes on 5/5

2010-05-05 Thread Chris Thompson
ggered by Mexico defaulting on its debts. Watch out, Greece ... -- 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: Misconfigured slave?

2010-04-29 Thread Chris Thompson
rly still got quite a mess to sort out here. -- 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: Resolving .gov w/dnssec

2010-04-22 Thread Chris Thompson
with timeouts, while dig +dnssec +norec +vc dnskey uspto.gov @dns1.uspto.gov. dig +dnssec +norec +vc dnskey uspto.gov @dns2.uspto.gov. work fine ... with a 1736-byte answer. Probably the fragmented UDP response is getting lost somewhere near the authoritative servers themselves. -- Chris Thompson

Re: Problem with an unsigned private subzone of a signed public zone

2010-04-19 Thread Chris Thompson
- previously the "type stub" setup worked OK without a delegation in the signed parent. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

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