Re: Empty CNAME chain, should getaddrinfo() return EAI_NONAME or EAI_FAIL?

2011-04-28 Thread Doug Barton
On 04/28/2011 13:16, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Apr 28, 2011, at 11:52 AM, Doug Barton wrote: Agreed. Akamai's EdgeSuite doesn't provide IPv6 records at this time, but e3191.c.akamaiedge.net does have an A record. I understand what you're saying, but I've always referred to such a thing

Empty CNAME chain, should getaddrinfo() return EAI_NONAME or EAI_FAIL?

2011-04-27 Thread Doug Barton
Assuming a case where there is an empty CNAME chain, but no error, should getaddrinfo() return EAI_NONAME or EAI_FAIL? For example: ; DiG 9.8.0 www.apple.com ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 64776 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1,

Re: BIND 9.8.0 + openssl 1.0.0d + chroot == issues

2011-04-22 Thread Doug Barton
On 04/19/2011 17:11, Mark Andrews wrote: In message4dadfb29.6080...@dougbarton.us, Doug Barton writes: I have had 2 reports now of people using BIND 9.8.0 on FreeBSD compiled against openssl 1.0.0d not being able to chroot unless they copy $PREFIX/lib/engines/libgost.so into the chroot

Re: Migrate domains to different DNS servers

2011-04-21 Thread Doug Barton
On 04/20/2011 00:25, listus...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, We have a couple of BIND 8 DNS servers that we want to decommission, obviously we need to migrate the domains to other DNS servers first, which ordinarily involves zone transfer and domain re-delegation. Redelegation, yes. I'm not

BIND 9.8.0 + openssl 1.0.0d + chroot == issues

2011-04-19 Thread Doug Barton
I have had 2 reports now of people using BIND 9.8.0 on FreeBSD compiled against openssl 1.0.0d not being able to chroot unless they copy $PREFIX/lib/engines/libgost.so into the chroot environment. Traditionally, copying libs into the chroot directory has not been necessary, so I'm curious.

Re: dns record delegation

2011-04-12 Thread Doug Barton
On 4/11/2011 8:55 PM, Parashar Singh wrote: Hi Friends, I'm using bind 9.7.I want to delegate all wild card (*) request to another name server. Hence whenever any request, say a.example.com http://a.example.com or b.example.com http://b.example.com or c.example.com http://c.example.com comes to

Re: Anyway to disable dns_zone_nscheck in 9.8.0?

2011-04-08 Thread Doug Barton
On 4/8/2011 5:07 AM, Rodney Hives wrote: When you have hundreds / thousands of existing zones (from shared hosting) from users it is sometimes impossible to go in a fix all of the mistakes. s/impossible/a matter of actually doing the work/ Please stop foisting your broken stuff on the rest of

Re: BIND 9.4.3-P2 assertion failure

2011-04-02 Thread Doug Barton
On 04/01/2011 14:07, Kevin Oberman wrote: Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 08:56:14 +0200 From: Matus UHLAR - fantomasuh...@fantomas.sk Hasn't FreeBSD incorporated BIND9.4-ESV ? Define incorporated :) The 7.4-RELEASE has 9.4-ESV-R4. But the OP is on an older version of FreeBSD. You can always

Re: BIND 9.4.3-P2 assertion failure

2011-04-02 Thread Doug Barton
On 03/29/2011 00:32, Oleksii Krykun wrote: Hi, I used BIND 9.4.3-P2 on FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE 7.2 is past EOL. Please see http://www.freebsd.org/security/security.html#sup for more information. My recommendation would be to use at least 8.2-RELEASE. At that point you may wish to upgrade to

Re: Operating system recommendation

2011-03-10 Thread Doug Barton
On 03/09/2011 11:52, pollex wrote: Hi, I want to know in your experience what is the best operating system to run bind for an ISP. We currently have Debian for the 5 Cache servers and for the 2 Authoritative servers. We have around 111851 success querys in the cache servers and around 7267 zones

Re: Optimising rndc reload times on a slave server with 50,000 zones

2011-02-26 Thread Doug Barton
On 02/26/2011 18:56, Dennis Perisa wrote: Hi folks, I'm looking for suggestions to substantially improve reload times on a slave that is serving 50,000 zones (mostly customer zones). 'rndc reload' is being executed on the slave every 15 minutes. Yeah, don't do that. :) Is this being done to

Re: multi-master with mysql backend

2011-02-13 Thread Doug Barton
On 2/13/2011 8:06 AM, fddi wrote: I do not know why you really don't liket this mysql solution. It isn't a matter of not liking it. Given that you have steadfastly refused to answer any of the questions from people who are trying to help you, my feeling is that you have decided that you want

Re: multi-master with mysql backend

2011-02-12 Thread Doug Barton
On 02/11/2011 01:51 PM, fddi wrote: I understand you, but the advantage of having mysql backend is that if one of the two servers dies, the other keeps running with up to date informations, and can also be updated wit new informations. When the other server comes up again it will automatically

Re: additional empty zones

2011-02-12 Thread Doug Barton
On 02/12/2011 02:04 PM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: 2011/2/12 Matus UHLAR - fantomasuh...@fantomas.sk: Is it possible to add additional zones as empty? On 12.02.11 11:15, Terry. wrote: depends on what is empty. exactly the same what is used by disable-empty-zones option. I'd like to have

Re: bind 9.6.3 crashing on Freebsd 7.3

2011-02-11 Thread Doug Barton
On 02/11/2011 07:21 PM, Terry. wrote: 2011/2/11 Joshua Frugéjfru...@lsu.edu: running bind 9.6.3 installed from ports on Freebsd 7.3 (amd64) Getting this error in my local log 10-Feb-2011 21:12:13.711 general: rbtdb.c:1506: INSIST(((unsigned int)(((node)-references)-refs)) == 0 node-data ==

Re: named: high memory usage under FreeBSD-7...?

2010-12-21 Thread Doug Barton
You're combining too many variables. Whilst on the same platform (presumably FreeBSD 7) install dns/bind94, run your tests. Then deinstall that, and install dns/bind96; then run your tests. I suspect that what you're seeing is actually a problem in BIND 9.4, irrespective of platform. The

Re: m master file managed-keys.bind failed

2010-12-09 Thread Doug Barton
On 12/08/2010 11:51, Martin McCormick wrote: I wrote: Who is supposed to own /var/named? I received a response from a kind soul from this list who reminded me of a directive new to bind9.7.1 that lets you determine where the managed-keys.bind file lives. I set up

Re: dynamic updates via libbind.

2010-11-22 Thread Doug Barton
On 11/22/2010 13:57, Jack Tavares wrote: And the answer to that is, apparently, no. I don't speak for ISC so you should not take my statement(s) as relevant to the future of what may or may not happen with libbind. Meanwhile, is your question based on idle curiosity, or is there some

Re: named won't restart

2010-11-21 Thread Doug Barton
On Thu, 11 Nov 2010, Carlos Vicente wrote: Has anybody had this problem? # /etc/init.d/named restart Stopping named: . [FAILED] Starting named: named: already running [ OK ] Not sure what mechanism your linux distro is using, but

Re: no. of Views and Zones

2010-11-07 Thread Doug Barton
On 10/31/2010 9:41 AM, Alans wrote: On 10/31/2010 05:48 PM, Alan Clegg wrote: On 10/31/2010 4:48 AM, Alans wrote: Instead of saying how many views can I get, I think you would be much better off saying why am I trying to implement more views. I'm trying to implement something similar to

Re: control channel protocol?

2010-10-17 Thread Doug Barton
On 10/16/2010 4:58 AM, Klaus Malorny wrote: Hi, for one project we are using the traditional file based approach, where we update the zone files and call rndc to notify Bind about the changes. At some point I asked myself whether we could avoid calling rndc over and over and instead directly

Re: Unable to query the nameserver

2010-10-10 Thread Doug Barton
http://dougbarton.us/DNS/bind-users-FAQ.html#nslookup-evil -- Breadth of IT experience, and| Nothin' ever doesn't change, depth of knowledge in the DNS. | but nothin' changes much. Yours for the right price. :) | -- OK Go http://SupersetSolutions.com/

Re: minimum cache times?

2010-10-05 Thread Doug Barton
If you would like to create a new thread your best bet is to store the list address in your e-mail address book and then create a new message to the list. By replying to someone else's message and changing the subject you cause your message to appear hidden behind the message you replied to

Re: More ignorance (I have no shame) /var/named conventions

2010-10-05 Thread Doug Barton
On 10/5/2010 12:14 PM, Stewart Dean wrote: In the standard 'yum install bind' installation, I see there are /var/named/data and /var/named/slaves directories. What are they for? I do so like to follow standards particularly if there is a good reason :) I am not familiar with the way that your

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

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: .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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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

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: 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

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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

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: 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:

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: 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

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