Re: editing rc.d/named?

2009-01-05 Thread Doug Barton
bind user wrote: Thanks for that detailed explanation, Doug...after years of running Unix/Bind blind (because it just worked), I'm finally understanding why things are the way they are. -AK You're welcome, and I'll take the latter as a compliment. I try very hard to make things just work for

Re: Problem resolving www.lmsintl.com

2009-01-10 Thread Doug Barton
Apisa, Kathy (US - MABS) wrote: I am running bind 9,4.2-P2 You'll want to upgrade that to 9.4.3-P1 for better security, performance, etc. on windows and can resolve all external Domains names Really? You've tried them ALL? :) with the exception of www.lmsintl.com http://www.lmsintl.com/

Re: named lacking /dev/random or or equivalent on aix5.3

2009-01-11 Thread Doug Barton
harry Chuang wrote: HI ALL, My AIX5.3 systerm does have /dev/random and /dev/urandom: Are you chroot'ing your named process, and if so, is there a /dev/random in the chroot file structure? hope this helps, Doug ___ bind-users mailing list

Re: DSA_do_verify fix for BIND 9.2

2009-01-15 Thread Doug Barton
Lalvani, Hiro wrote: Could any one of help me, regarding this fix in BIND 9.2. I am unable to find function same function in BIND 9.2 or could any one just share the corresponding related the code architecture between BIND9.2 and BIND 9.3.

Re: rndc halt -p behavior

2009-01-21 Thread Doug Barton
Jeremy C. Reed wrote: On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Rich Goodson wrote: And I'm expected to know this, how? Rich, you read into the text what you wanted it to say (as you indicated in another message) but failed to try to understand what was actually there. The behavior you're saying you thought the

Re: rndc halt -p behavior

2009-01-22 Thread Doug Barton
Niall O'Reilly wrote: On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 19:14 -0600, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: Maybe we should just remove the immediately part. Any suggestions would be appreciated. If you're going to make a change, adding a little more information wouldn't hurt, would it? The output of

Re: IPv6 Lookups on BIND 9.5.1-P1 and .GOV Addresses

2009-01-23 Thread Doug Barton
wiskbr...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello; I have two DMZ BIND/DNS servers running whose purpose is to allow lookups via them from my otherwise incapable internal network. I've recently upgraded only one of them from BIND 9.5.0-P2 to BIND 9.5.1-P1. Both servers are running Sparc/Solaris 9.

Re: Unified Root - Domain Configuration Issue

2009-01-25 Thread Doug Barton
Joe Baptista wrote: So a little more testing using firefox as an application gives us some interesting results. Using the .TM TLD I entered http://tm/ into my browsers. It did not work. Firefox replaced http://tm/ with http://www.tm.com/ - which is not the web site I wanted to reach. In

Re: Unified Root - Domain Configuration Issue

2009-01-25 Thread Doug Barton
Mark Andrews wrote: In message 497cae4b.4020...@dougbarton.us, Doug Barton writes: Joe Baptista wrote: So a little more testing using firefox as an application gives us some interesting results. Using the .TM TLD I entered http://tm/ into my browsers. It did not work. Firefox replaced http

Re: rDNS for /20

2009-03-13 Thread Doug Barton
Jeff Lasman wrote: I've read the relevant parts of DNS and Bind over and over again, and I'm still going crazy. I've searched this list going back about three years. I've googled. Each step confuses me more frown. It would help if you described in more detail what you've tried, and what

Re: BIND - out of memory

2009-03-25 Thread Doug Barton
Jan Arild Lindstrøm wrote: Hi, more findings ... BIND 9.6.1b1 No matter what I set in named.conf, it starts to give out of memory when recursive clients pass 1000. I see that 1000 is the default value for recursive-clients. Did you try backing up to 9.6.0-P1 to see if the same

Re: multi-named instance exist?

2009-03-26 Thread Doug Barton
dev_n...@zoho.com wrote: If named is invoked successfully on startup, then the contents of the PID file will be overwritten with the new PID value. If named *isn't* invoked successfully on startup, then that's a separate error condition that should be detected and dealt

Re: multi-named instance exist?

2009-03-26 Thread Doug Barton
Rich Goodson wrote: If you're really looking to cover all bases, there's a little gotcha in Solaris (even in 10) that will make this startup script fail if it's invoked with sh (as most startup scripts that I've seen are). Yeah, I was trying to avoid shell portability concerns to try to avoid

Re: GSS-TSIG and bind 9.6

2009-05-14 Thread Doug Barton
Any reason you have chosen gas vs. TSIG? Is this for a windows environment? On May 14, 2009, at 7:37 AM, Peter Fraser petros.fra...@gmail.com wrote: HI All I have been working to get dynamic updates working with bind-9.6 and FreeBSD 7 So far I have done the following: 1. Compiled bind

9.6.1rc1 + FreeBSD 8 + IA64 compile problem

2009-05-31 Thread Doug Barton
Last night I imported 9.6.1rc1 to FreeBSD 8-current for inclusion in the upcoming 8-release. (Side note, hopefully 9.6.1 will go to release status first.) :) It seems to be compiling fine on all of our platforms except IA64 where I'm getting the following error building lib/bind9 In file

Re: A very basic question...

2009-08-09 Thread Doug Barton
E Johnson wrote: From what I have read so far, I can see that this might be a very flame-worthy question, so please don't hurt me, I'm just a beginner... I have read every howto that I can find on setting up a DNS server for a very small, 12 seats, network. The DNS server just needs to be

Re: named[749]: the working directory is not writable

2009-08-14 Thread Doug Barton
Rick Dicaire wrote: joans4nz wrote: What is the working directory? Take a look at the ownership and perms on /var/named/etc/namedb/dump Making that message go away (one way or another) is on my list, but since it's basically harmless it's not a high priority. It will be when you want

Re: hardware requirements per hits

2009-08-16 Thread Doug Barton
Alans wrote: Hi, I want to know when we need hardware upgrade. How many queries will use 50% of cpu and memory? FYI this question is impossible to answer without a lot more details. Doug ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org

Still necessary for BIND to run single threaded for dlz-mysql?

2009-08-17 Thread Doug Barton
Howdy, Doing some work on adding DLZ options to the FreeBSD ports and came across the following: http://bind-dlz.sourceforge.net/mysql_driver.html Is the advice to run BIND single threaded with dlz-mysql still valid? Any other caveats to dlz setup? Doug

Re: Still necessary for BIND to run single threaded for dlz-mysql?

2009-08-18 Thread Doug Barton
Doug Barton wrote: Howdy, Doing some work on adding DLZ options to the FreeBSD ports and came across the following: http://bind-dlz.sourceforge.net/mysql_driver.html Is the advice to run BIND single threaded with dlz-mysql still valid? Any other caveats to dlz setup? I've not seen

Re: BIND with DLZ doesn't reconnect to the MySQL 5.x server after disconnect

2009-09-23 Thread Doug Barton
Mark Andrews wrote: In message 4ab9c360.7090...@dougbarton.us, Doug Barton writes: I recently added DLZ options to the BIND ports on FreeBSD, and a user has filed the following problem report: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=139051 Does anyone have any comment on the patch

9.6.1-P1 host coredumps

2009-10-11 Thread Doug Barton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On FreeBSD 8-RC1 we're seeing the following problem (reported by a user): http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/138061 The attached patch, provided by a user named Volker (vol...@vwsoft.com) reportedly fixes this problem. Is this

Re: Nslookup not showng TTL

2009-10-15 Thread Doug Barton
Kevin Darcy wrote: John Horne wrote: On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 10:47 +0200, Adam Tkac wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 09:06:56AM +0100, John Horne wrote: How can I see the TTL value using nslookup? I'm not sure how force nslookup to show TTL but the `dig` utility is far more

Re: caching problems with bind 9.4.3

2009-11-20 Thread Doug Barton
Gil Vidals wrote: Hello, I have a master and slave running bind 9.4.3, You should upgrade to version 9.4.3-P3 which has fixes for some security issues. and there is a problem with the outside world resolving new domains that I add to my name servers. Here is the sequence: 1) add new

Re: BIND Forum Membership

2009-11-20 Thread Doug Barton
Taylor, Gord wrote: The company I work for uses a vendor solution which implements BIND under the hood, though it's abstracted with a GUI interface. Knowing which bugs may exist in the current release of BIND would be nice to know; for example, if it's a feature of BIND we use, we may want

Re: DIG -6 +TCP

2009-11-22 Thread Doug Barton
Pamela Rock wrote: Hit the wrong key, sorry about that... I've got a closed lab testing BIND and I've got an interesting problem with IPv6 queries. Now I have 3 systems all running IPv4 and IPv6. IPv4 queries work fine across all systems. IPv6 UDP queries work fine as well. When I

Re: DIG -6 +TCP

2009-11-23 Thread Doug Barton
Pamela Rock wrote: For all it's worth, using wireshark, I can see IPv6 UDP queries successfully traversing in/out. Ping6 works successfully. There is no firewall running anywhere(IPv4 or 6). Still get [r...@dig-client ~]# dig -6 a test.domain @bindserver6 +tcp socket.c:4922:

zonechecks test failing on 9.[456]

2009-11-29 Thread Doug Barton
I'm getting the failures logged below on all the recent versions of BIND. I went back and tested 9.6.1-P1 and it fails too, so it doesn't look like something that was introduced with the latest patches. This is on FreeBSD 9-current, and I don't think my args for configure are particularly exotic.

Re: zonechecks test failing on 9.[456]

2009-11-29 Thread Doug Barton
Mark Andrews wrote: In message 4b1313c7.1040...@dougbarton.us, Doug Barton writes: I'm getting the failures logged below on all the recent versions of BIND. I went back and tested 9.6.1-P1 and it fails too, so it doesn't look like something that was introduced with the latest patches

Re: zone vs domain

2009-12-01 Thread Doug Barton
gmspro wrote: What's the main difference between zone and domain? In what context? Unfortunately both terms get used by various people/vendors in different ways. A little more detail is needed to answer your question (although if you're talking strictly DNS terms Chris' answer was quite

Re: Workaround for 'rndc stop' ?

2009-12-13 Thread Doug Barton
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, kalpesh varyani wrote: Hi all, Can anyone please tell me is there any other command by which i can stop the name-server without loosing the recent updates. I know that I can do this by issuing 'rndc stop' but for some reason I am not able to . Using rndc is

Re: managed-keys.bind's directory problem

2009-12-13 Thread Doug Barton
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Mark Andrews wrote: In message 20091210.162242.460114267490885968.fujiw...@pyon.org, fujiw...@wid e.ad.jp writes: I'm using BIND 9.7.0b3 an DLV (dns-lookaside auto;). The named tried to write managed-keys.bind file into the named's working directory. The current BIND 9

Re: managed-keys.bind's directory problem

2009-12-14 Thread Doug Barton
Chris Buxton wrote: On Dec 13, 2009, at 5:40 PM, Doug Barton wrote: On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Mark Andrews wrote: To repeat my primary objection, if the named user can write to the configuration directory it can change the contents of named.conf. That's a security problem.\ So don't put

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

2009-12-14 Thread Doug Barton
While this reminder is timely and helpful, more welcome would be the news that BIND 9.6.2 is going to have actual support for RSASHA{256|512}. My cursory reading of the 9.6.2b1 code does not seem to indicate that it does, although I would be happy to be proven wrong. I personally don't think it's

Re: managed-keys.bind's directory problem

2009-12-14 Thread Doug Barton
fujiw...@wide.ad.jp wrote: I'm using BIND 9.7.0b3 an DLV (dns-lookaside auto;). FYI I recently committed the port for 9.7.0rc1. Hopefully this will make it easier for you to continue testing. Please try the port and let me know if you have any problems with it. The named tried to write

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

2009-12-15 Thread Doug Barton
Chris Thompson wrote: (Evan Hunt) Adding SHA-2 to 9.6.x would violate our policy of making major functional changes only in major releases, so I don't expect we'll do that. Given the odd circumstances you mentioned, I won't say for certain that we won't--but I doubt it. 9.7.0 is going to

Re: Delegating in reverse lookup zones

2009-12-15 Thread Doug Barton
Simon Dodd wrote: Thanks for the replies, everyone; I think the consensus is that having ARIN redelegate is the correct solution, and that's fine by me. (As mentioned, my marching orders were to do this without redelegating, but if that's the correct way to do it, I can make that case.) It IS

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

2009-12-15 Thread Doug Barton
Evan Hunt wrote: BIND 9.6.2 is in the b1 phase atm, which means that there is plenty of time to get SHA2 in there and get the release out before a signed root goes live. I encourage the folks at ISC to do so, and if you agree I encourage you to make your voice heard. We hear you. That's

Re: Bind crashs sometimes

2009-12-30 Thread Doug Barton
Nadir, If it's crashing, it's not working normally. :) The advice Matthew gave is the right solution, but let's do some more digging. Do the following: /etc/rc.d/named stop ps -ax | grep named You may see a syslog line for the logging socket in the chroot directory but you should not see a

Re: Can bind log the IP of clients requesting lookups to a domain?

2010-02-05 Thread Doug Barton
On 2/5/2010 3:16 PM, Keith Christian wrote: Version - bind 9.5.1 on CentOS 5.x. Is there a way to log either the IP of clients requesting lookups of a particular domain? In other words, I'd like to know the IP of clients trying to resolve app01.foocompany.net (for example.) There is

Re: multi master primary nameserver.

2010-02-05 Thread Doug Barton
On 2/5/2010 2:41 PM, fddi wrote: Hello I wanted to ask how could be possible in some way to have 2 or more multi master name servers authoritative for one domain, instead of the classical master slave model. Yes. -- Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a

Re: reverse Zone example!

2010-02-07 Thread Doug Barton
a zone file for your netblock already? 4. What nameservers do you have the zone configured on now? ... and just in case it's not obvious yet, what you posted won't work, which is why we need to dig a little deeper. hth, Doug -Original Message- From: Doug Barton [mailto:do

Re: Different handling of referrals by dig and nslookup

2010-02-13 Thread Doug Barton
On 02/13/10 18:42, kalpesh varyani wrote: Hi Rick, I am aware that it is a somewhat odd (but not incorrect, am I right ?) to put a non-recursive name server in the resolv.conf There are certain very specific circumstances where you might want to do this, but in general I can't see any reason

Re: ISC BIND 9.7.0 is now available

2010-02-18 Thread Doug Barton
On 02/18/10 16:20, ic.nssip wrote: Hi Mark, This is what I suspect too. Syslog gives me this record when I start BIND: named[14380]: [ID 873579 daemon.notice] built with '--with-openssl=yes' '--enable-largefile' '--sysconfdir=/usr/local/etc' '--localstatedir=/usr/local/var' Since no PREFIX

Re: Duplicating queries??

2010-02-21 Thread Doug Barton
On 02/19/10 23:07, Daniel Morgan wrote: I have a couple of BIND servers that I have inherited. I'm getting some upstream complaints that one of them is issuing duplicate queries on occasions - probably about a dozen times a day. You didn't mention what version of BIND you're running. I'm

Re: Different handling of referrals by dig and nslookup

2010-02-21 Thread Doug Barton
On 02/20/10 08:54, kalpesh varyani wrote: Thanks Dave for pointing this out. the first server did not fail, it behaved as per its configuration. But for a stub resolver, which cannot follow referrals, isnt it logical for it to detect referrals and move on to the next name server in the

Re: hosts or subnet number in delegation?

2010-02-26 Thread Doug Barton
On 02/23/10 23:01, sasa sasa wrote: Hello, for a 192.168.199.64/26 in zone file to delegate to a customer; should i put subnet number: 64/26 IN NS ns1.example.com. 64/26 IN NS ns2.example.com. or host ranges: 64-126 IN NS ns1.example.com. 64-126 IN NS ns2.example.com. . .

Re: The thread is dead?

2010-03-02 Thread Doug Barton
On 3/2/2010 8:38 AM, donovan jeffrey j wrote: On Jan 14, 2010, at 8:43 AM, pollex wrote: I do not see any activity in the thread... is everyone on holidays? Regards nope not dead just sleeping :) ... pining for the fjords. -- ... and that's just a little bit of history

Confused about 9.6.2-P1 and 9.6-ESV

2010-03-16 Thread Doug Barton
I noticed that the patchfix releases of BIND came out today, so congratulations on that. :) However I was confused by the existence of both a 9.6.2-P1 and a 9.6-ESV (with the same code inside). Is 9.6.2-P1 the last release on the 9.6 branch? For the purpose of following a branch in the FreeBSD

Re: Confused about 9.6.2-P1 and 9.6-ESV

2010-03-16 Thread Doug Barton
On 03/16/10 20:57, Mark Andrews wrote: In message 4ba04e63.8090...@dougbarton.us, Doug Barton writes: I noticed that the patchfix releases of BIND came out today, so congratulations on that. :) However I was confused by the existence of both a 9.6.2-P1 and a 9.6-ESV (with the same code inside

Re: Confused about 9.6.2-P1 and 9.6-ESV

2010-03-16 Thread Doug Barton
On 03/16/10 22:17, Mark Andrews wrote: ESV's are supposed to be releases which are stable, no dot-o-itis. I'm not suggesting that they should be the latter, thus my comment that what I _thought_ would happen is that once the dot-releases were done in a given branch the -ESV would start. Frankly

Re: PTR format question

2010-03-20 Thread Doug Barton
First off, please don't grab an unrelated message and reply to it when starting a new thread. Please actually post a new message. In the process of cleaning up a much neglected PTR file Bind: 9.6.2.1 OS: CentOS 5.4 Current PTR in this format: (1 tab between entries) $ORIGIN

Re: BIND9 Internal Reverse Look-ups Fail

2010-03-20 Thread Doug Barton
On 03/20/10 16:46, michael peters wrote: I've been reading documentation, searching the archives, searched Google for the answer, but have found nothing that solves the problem. I have an Ubuntu 9.10 system with BIND 9.6.1 installed for my internal DNS system. You'll want to update to at

Re: BIND9 Internal Reverse Look-ups Fail

2010-03-20 Thread Doug Barton
On 03/20/10 17:11, michael peters wrote: zone 0.253.150.10.in-addr.arpa in { type master; file /etc/bind/10.150.253.0.rev; }; zone 0.0.16.172.in-addr.arpa in { type master; file /etc/bind/172.16.0.0.rev; }; This is your problem, you're not

Re: BIND9 Internal Reverse Look-ups Fail

2010-03-21 Thread Doug Barton
On 03/21/10 08:29, michael peters wrote: That did the trick! Thank you so much for your assistance. Glad it worked out for you. Doug -- ... and that's just a little bit of history repeating. -- Propellerheads Improve the effectiveness of your Internet

Re: CNAME Issue - Whether to use CNAME-data or Response-Flag

2010-04-09 Thread Doug Barton
When I try to resolve mail.wilmot.me.uk against my local resolver (which happens to be BIND 9.6.2-P1 atm) I get the expected result: host mail.wilmot.me.uk mail.wilmot.me.uk is an alias for wilmot.me.uk.mail.aaisp.net.uk. wilmot.me.uk.mail.aaisp.net.uk has address 81.187.30.19

Re: Implementing the bogon list

2010-04-09 Thread Doug Barton
On 04/09/10 13:27, Alex wrote: Hi, I'm interested in implementing an updated Cymru bogon list, Why don't you take a step back and let us know what you're trying to accomplish first. Doug -- ... and that's just a little bit of history repeating. --

Re: CNAME Issue - Whether to use CNAME-data or Response-Flag

2010-04-09 Thread Doug Barton
On 04/09/10 13:28, David Forrest wrote: Doug: I think it is a server error that is being reported because the status is NXDOMAIN instead of the expected NOERROR. Well that's all you really had to say. :) I admit that I didn't catch the NXDOMAIN bit when I looked at the dig output, I was

Re: Implementing the bogon list

2010-04-09 Thread Doug Barton
On 04/09/10 14:23, Kevin Oberman wrote: The FreeBSD default configuration does this, Let's be clear on what this is please, since I don't think the OP's post was clear about what he wanted to implement. :) The default named.conf for FreeBSD implements local, empty zones for various things that

Re: Implementing the bogon list

2010-04-09 Thread Doug Barton
On 04/09/10 20:50, Alex wrote: Hi, Let's be clear on what this is please, since I don't think the OP's post was clear about what he wanted to implement. :) I'm really interested in security, reducing resources, and making sure the server is current with today's standards. I'd like to make

Re: Need help to write a specific bindzone

2010-04-10 Thread Doug Barton
On 04/10/10 02:27, Hedy Dargère wrote: Hi, I'm not an expert with Bind but I have to make a specific bindzone for a domain. And excuse me for my english :o/ What is the situation ? == - the domain name is ag2s.fr - for now, this domain has 2 DNS : ns6.oleane.net/

Re: rdns for /20

2010-04-13 Thread Doug Barton
On 4/13/2010 6:42 PM, Jason Davis wrote: Hello, Is their an easy way to rdns a /20. I can only find examples for a /24 You need to create individual zones for each /24. -- ... and that's just a little bit of history repeating. -- Propellerheads

Re: Views on differrent interfaces

2010-04-22 Thread Doug Barton
On 4/22/2010 5:30 AM, Tom Schmitt wrote: Thank you for your answer. But this doesn't work: With match-destination and match-clients I can only define the same match-clients statement for both destionation interfaces, not differrent one. The only workaround I see how to rech my goal by

Re: one record to be redirected to a specific IP

2010-04-23 Thread Doug Barton
On 04/23/10 08:15, hugo hugoo wrote: Hello all, I plan to use BIND as caching DNS. But I need to could redirect a specific record to a specific IP. How can I do this? This redirection must only be applied for one record. Ex: a query for www.ABCD.com http://www.ABCD.com must be

Re: one record to be redirected to a specific IP

2010-04-25 Thread Doug Barton
On 04/25/10 13:19, hugo hugoo wrote: Yes I need more help on this item. Your answer seems to indicate thate there is no way to only redirect www.abcd.com to IP 1.2.3.4 That's essentially correct. toto.www.abcd.com will either be redirected to the same IP (zone file with * A 1.2.3.4) It

Re: problem with domain and sub-domain configuration

2010-05-03 Thread Doug Barton
On 05/03/10 08:37, fddi wrote: Hello I have one domain test.com with namserver ns.test.com (10.0.0.1) and a subdomain cr.test.com with nameserver ns.cr.test.com (10.1.0.1) my problem is that if I update hostnames inside test.com zone updates are not seen by cr.test.com

Re: Side-effects of edns-udp-size 512

2010-05-03 Thread Doug Barton
On 05/03/10 09:34, Ray Van Dolson wrote: I believe having edns-udp-size set at 512 gives us maximum compatibility with anything out there behind a broken firewall, etc, though we should look at removing the limit at some point in the future when possible. Doing this will simply perpetuate

Re: Side-effects of edns-udp-size 512

2010-05-03 Thread Doug Barton
On 05/03/10 16:46, Ray Van Dolson wrote: On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 04:20:30PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: On 05/03/10 09:34, Ray Van Dolson wrote: I believe having edns-udp-size set at 512 gives us maximum compatibility with anything out there behind a broken firewall, etc, though we should look

Re: Dnssec zone signing problem

2010-05-20 Thread Doug Barton
On 5/20/2010 12:51 PM, Hauke Lampe wrote: Did you load the unsigned zone into BIND before? It should have logged a warning about that record. named-checkzone would be useful here as well. hth, Doug -- ... and that's just a little bit of history repeating.

Re: dnssec-keygen is waiting endless...

2010-05-28 Thread Doug Barton
On 05/28/10 13:53, Michelle Konzack wrote: Hello Evan, Am 2010-05-28 18:33:14, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: Operating System is Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 Lenny with bind9 in version 1:9.7.0.dfsg.P1-1~bpo50+1 I get the same problem on Ubuntu, which is Debian-based. /dev/random runs out of

Re: max-cache-size query

2010-06-02 Thread Doug Barton
On 06/02/10 01:31, Techi wrote: but, my question is still not answered. Why on earth such huge defference in the number of connections on the firewall with the max-cache-size on and off? I still don't get it. Imagine the cache as a bucket. With a large bucket the chances of the answer that

Re: disable dnssec in bind resolver

2010-06-04 Thread Doug Barton
On 06/04/10 11:19, JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 wrote: The DO bit is always set whenever the server includes an EDNS OPT RR (I thought it was based on the specification, but don't remember which sentence of which RFC says so). Given that concern about whether or not it's a good idea to always send

Re: disable dnssec in bind resolver

2010-06-04 Thread Doug Barton
On 06/04/10 19:40, Paul Vixie wrote: Doug Bartondo...@dougbarton.us writes: I have a guess at why ISC would want to enable it by default, and even in the presence of an option to turn it off I'm still Ok with that default. But if it's not a standards requirement to have it on, giving the

Re: disable dnssec in bind resolver

2010-06-05 Thread Doug Barton
On 06/04/10 21:58, Paul Vixie wrote: Doug Bartondo...@dougbarton.us writes: With my business hat on though I can see at least 2 possible use cases for DO=0. The first being related to this thread, I can't/won't fix/remove the firewall today, I just want my resolver to work. it works. it's

Re: disable dnssec in bind resolver

2010-06-05 Thread Doug Barton
On 06/05/10 07:22, Mark Andrews wrote: In message4c09c562.7030...@dougbarton.us, Doug Barton writes: The resolver works. It figures out that it can't make the new style queries and falls back to the old style queries. If the user is really worried they can turn off EDNS and with that DO

Re: .org registrars allowing DS records

2010-06-06 Thread Doug Barton
On 06/06/10 17:14, Kevin Oberman wrote: I am using godaddy.com for my .org domains and as per the customer support replies, they donot support DNSSEC and thus cannot add DS records for my domains. Which other registrars people are using that allow DS records. Thanks -dani Last I checked,

Re: Upgrade path?

2010-06-13 Thread Doug Barton
On 06/13/10 06:15, sasa sasa wrote: Hi list, Is it ok to upgrade from 9.4.2 to 9.7.0-P2 directly? Yes, but you should do some testing before you install the new version on your live, production system. There are some differences in the defaults for named.conf, and when upgrading to a new

Re: Can't get BIND to use GSSAPI from /usr/local on FreeBSD

2010-06-13 Thread Doug Barton
On 06/11/10 02:51, John Marshall wrote: BIND 9.7.1rc1 FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE I've just stepped into the world of nsupdate (instead of doing the freeze/edit/thaw dance). I have had success using TSIG (nsupdate -k) but I would like to use TKEY-GSS (nsupdate -g). When I try to do that,

Re: Microsoft's nslookup Implementation Problems

2010-06-13 Thread Doug Barton
On 06/13/10 13:00, Merton Campbell Crockett wrote: Microsoft's nslookup is broken. What alternative applications that can be installed and used in a Windows XP environment that will continue to work in a Windows 7 environment after a decision is made to upgrade Windows? In the past I've

Re: Microsoft's nslookup Implementation Problems

2010-06-13 Thread Doug Barton
On 06/13/10 14:08, Merton Campbell Crockett wrote: On Jun 13, 2010, at 1:08 PM, Doug Barton wrote: On 06/13/10 13:00, Merton Campbell Crockett wrote: Microsoft's nslookup is broken. What alternative applications that can be installed and used in a Windows XP environment that will continue

Re: Microsoft's nslookup Implementation Problems

2010-06-13 Thread Doug Barton
On 06/13/10 15:55, Merton Campbell Crockett wrote: Providing access to the web-based tools to IT personnel might not be that big of a challenge; Excellent! however, the problem remains: Using nslookup is an ingrained behavior for the general user. I would assert that the general user has

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

2010-06-15 Thread Doug Barton
On 06/15/10 09:53, Martin McCormick wrote: Is there any kind of dummy A record one can stuff in to a zone which satisfies this requirement such that one can then use aliases or CNAME records for the valid hosts in the zone? localhost A 127.0.0.1 hth, Doug --

Re: Bind-9.7.1 multi thread question (FreeBSD)

2010-06-30 Thread Doug Barton
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010, Bind wrote: Hello I compiled Bind971 on FreeBSD 8 (amd64). FYI, you may get better results by using /usr/ports/dns/bind97. !-- /* Font Definitions */ Not sure why you included this. ./configure --prefix=/opt/ --enable-threads --sysconfdir=/opt/config

Re: Negative Cache won't go!

2010-07-05 Thread Doug Barton
On 07/05/10 12:01, Alans wrote: BE CARFUL: my antivirus detects certain .png files on that website as potential viruses, please don't open it in the browser. The Website is: Just in case it isn't obvious, this is an attempt to get you to click that link precisely BECAUSE the site is infected

Re: ad flag for RRSIG queries

2010-07-13 Thread Doug Barton
On Tue, 13 Jul 2010, Marco Davids (SIDN) wrote: Hi, Can anyone explain to me why the 'ad'-flag is set for this query? dig +dnssec -t RRSIG www.forfunsec.org I'm using 9.7.1-P1 with dlv and I'm not seeing the AD flag on that. What version of BIND are you using? Doug -- Improve

Re: ad flag for RRSIG queries

2010-07-13 Thread Doug Barton
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010, Marco Davids (SIDN) wrote: On 07/13/10 23:58, Doug Barton wrote: Can anyone explain to me why the 'ad'-flag is set for this query? dig +dnssec -t RRSIG www.forfunsec.org I'm using 9.7.1-P1 with dlv and I'm not seeing the AD flag on that. What version of BIND are you

Re: GeoIP and maintaining high availability

2010-07-13 Thread Doug Barton
On Fri, 9 Jul 2010, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: Hi, I'm about to set up bind with GeoIP patches. What I'm not sure, is how do you guys handle high availability? Suppose I have zones for Americas and Europe, Just to be clear, you're saying that you have 2 different zones, one with the

Re: zone syntax question

2010-07-17 Thread Doug Barton
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010, Lyle Giese wrote: I would replace example.com in the SOA with @ I generally recommend against doing this unless you are explicitly planning to use the same zone file with multiple zones. There is no advantage to using @ in a one-zone file, and unnecessary obfuscation is

Re: root-anchor.xml anchors.xml in Bind

2010-07-17 Thread Doug Barton
On Sat, 17 Jul 2010, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 08:49:04AM -0500, Lyle Giese l...@lcrcomputer.net wrote a message of 30 lines which said: What is the difference between managed-keys and trusted-keys? managed-keys are automatically updated *if* the zone manager

Re: root-anchor.xml anchors.xml in Bind

2010-07-17 Thread Doug Barton
On Sat, 17 Jul 2010, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 01:36:05PM -0700, Doug Barton do...@dougbarton.us wrote a message of 24 lines which said: *if* the zone manager follows RFC 5011 (which, as far as I know, the root does not use yet). How could it, when this is the first

Re: dnssec-lookaside auto and managed-keys-zone problem with certain views

2010-07-18 Thread Doug Barton
On 07/18/10 12:28, Matthew Seaman wrote: Think I'll just drop the external-chaos view. Some script kiddie working out I'm running the latest version of bind is likely to be lower risk and a lot less harmful than dealing with broken dnssec chains of trust. I agree, and to take it one step

Re: top level zone file transfer fails from the slave

2010-07-23 Thread Doug Barton
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010, Prabhat Rana wrote: So as can be seen we are using the top level domain as the PTR zone file for all the 10.x.x.x (10/8)address. However it appears in the masters nodes, they don't have a top level zone file and have basically broken down the top level to numerous sub

Re: Multiple masters expected behavior?

2010-07-23 Thread Doug Barton
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010, Peter Laws wrote: Except that the 2 masters are simply different interfaces on the same master Why do you think that would be helpful? Or are you just testing the multi-master configuration in the hopes of adding actual diversity down the road? Doug --

Re: Multiple masters expected behavior?

2010-07-23 Thread Doug Barton
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Peter Laws wrote: BIND 9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-4.P1.el5_4.2 9.3.x has been EOL for a long time now, FYI. -- Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover!http://SupersetSolutions.com/ Computers are useless.

Re: Strange IPv6 messages

2010-08-02 Thread Doug Barton
On 08/02/10 14:43, Denis BUCHER wrote: Dear all, I have a simple question, when reloading Bind, I get these messages, and later on in the logs, the transfer seems to work with IPv4. Aug 2 23:24:13 cirrus named[1581]: network unreachable resolving '(host)/A/IN': 2001:620::4#53 Aug 2

Re: mem.c:1093: INSIST(ctx-stats[i].gets == 0U) failed

2010-08-12 Thread Doug Barton
On 08/11/2010 13:43, Carlos Vicente wrote: One of our recursive resolvers, running 9.7.0-P2 You're a minor version and 2 patches behind the times. Download 9.7.1-P2, and while it's compiling read the Changelog to see if anything there applies. Worst case scenario is that you reproduce the bug

Re: NSEC3 salt lifetime (and some other DNSSEC params): sane value?

2010-09-21 Thread Doug Barton
On 9/21/2010 7:46 AM, Kalman Feher wrote: It may well be analogous to that (though I disagree), but the quote does not substantiate why knowing public information is bad. In the example above, you've simply saved your switchboard and the caller some time. If you don't want someone to know it,

Re: chrooting BIND [was -Re: Here I am again, hat in hand with humble demeanor.......]

2010-09-27 Thread Doug Barton
On 9/27/2010 7:46 AM, Jerry Kemp wrote: IMHO, the primary benefit of chrooting is security. another, less painful option, again IMHO, is to run BIND in a jail if you are using BSD, The default configuration in FreeBSD is to run it chroot'ed. Given that it's very unlikely that the chroot will

Re: rndc.key vs. rndc.conf

2010-10-02 Thread Doug Barton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 10/2/2010 5:08 PM, online-reg wrote: | Hi All: One more conf issue on bind 9.7.1-P2 | After running rndc-confgen and reloading BIND I?m getting this error: | WARNING: key file (/etc/namedb/rndc.key) exists, but using default | configuration file

Re: multiple slave zones pointing to same file?

2010-10-02 Thread Doug Barton
On 10/2/2010 3:15 PM, online-reg wrote: IME the best way to do this on a Unix'y system is to use hard links. That way if you ever need to change one of them to be its own file it's trivial to do so. Also IME, BIND doesn't react well to having multiple slave zones sharing the same file, but that

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