Re: bind 9.7.2-P3 does not resolve www.microsoft.com

2010-12-28 Thread Eivind Olsen
out when I do a "Get DNS Records" query for "microsoft.com" When testing for yourself, please keep in mind that limited queries seem to work fine (like, asking for A records, or MX), but doing any-queries which give everything seems to fail. Regards Eivind Olsen ___

Re: bind 9.7.2-P3 does not resolve www.microsoft.com

2010-12-28 Thread Eivind Olsen
> trying to resolve www.microsoft.com or microsoft.com results in a > "connection timed out; no servers could be reached" Well, for what it's worth - it's not just you having that issue. When testing from home and from work I get the same. Of course, I could be doing something wrong, but whenever

Re: Fwd: performance on the big query traffic

2010-12-26 Thread Eivind Olsen
s over an entire day? Do you know if there are any peaks? If so, how long + high? Regards Eivind Olsen ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: Help with the subzone problem

2010-11-25 Thread Eivind Olsen
so check the delegation of the domain, and we could check that we got sensible answers from your authoritative nameservers for both abc.com and games.abc.com Regards Eivind Olsen ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: Crashed Bind

2010-11-19 Thread Eivind Olsen
about that? I only took a quick google-search for it, but it looks similar to the error message mentioned on http://xorl.wordpress.com/2009/07/30/cve-2009-0696-isc-bind-9-remote-rrset-crash/ And yes, update your BIND. Regards Eivind Olsen ___ bin

Integrating BIND9 with external graphing like Cacti

2010-10-13 Thread Eivind Olsen
Has anyone here made use of the XML statistics interface in BIND9, to get some numbers into Cacti (or another similar tool)? If so, how, and which numbers did you feel were worth turning into graphs? Regards Eivind Olsen ___ bind-users mailing list

Re: Performance hit on Query logging

2010-10-07 Thread Eivind Olsen
rformance. resperf has a report tool which can easily make some nice graphs for you, showing when BIND starts to struggle with sending the replies, and another graph to tell you the latency / delay in replies. This should give you some numbers, to see how much query logging would impact you

Re: Performance hit on Query logging

2010-10-07 Thread Eivind Olsen
way to determine "named" utilization ? Are there measurable impacts to Query response not reflected in CPU load, Memory or IO? Not sure what you're after. Parameters to measure? Latency / response time? Regards Eivind Olsen ___ bind-use

Re: Unable to query the nameserver

2010-10-05 Thread Eivind Olsen
still not logging: # service named restart -g The "-g" option is to get debug output. I doubt that works nicely with the "service" command. Running RedHat? I don't have a RedHat system in front of me... but.. you could try: # service named

Re: Unable to query the nameserver

2010-10-05 Thread Eivind Olsen
eed to look into fixing that, as I'm guessing BIND is then really trying to give you some nice information in the logs but it can't.. Regards Eivind Olsen ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

RE: minimum cache times?

2010-10-05 Thread Eivind Olsen
rvers used in your organization, you'll still have problems making a solution here. Regards Eivind Olsen ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: Recover deleted zone file

2010-10-05 Thread Eivind Olsen
either.. I haven't tried this, so I can't guarantee it will work, but it might work changing the named.conf to allow zone transfers, then do a "rndc reconfig"? No guarantees that it will work as expected though :D Regards Eivind Olsen _

Re: Custom DNS error with BIND?

2010-10-05 Thread Eivind Olsen
.or must edit bind source code? As far as I know, it's not natively supported by BIND. Are you _really_ sure you want this? Suggested reading is for example <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_hijacking> Regards Eivind Olsen ___ bind-

RE: minimum cache times?

2010-10-05 Thread Eivind Olsen
izing this so you can do it once from one location (easiest solution: make a wrapper script, running rndc on all servers in turn, over the network). Regards Eivind Olsen ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: Unable to query the nameserver

2010-10-05 Thread Eivind Olsen
s only served by a single physical server and that server happens to go down some day? Any server _will_ go down sometimes, even if you decide to not patch it... If it's serving a domain name you care about, I'd _really_ recommend having multiple _separate_ nameservers, hosted on sep

How does BIND 9 scale with multithreading?

2010-09-29 Thread Eivind Olsen
tion for server hardware would be for a recursive DNS server. On one hand, the Sun (ok, Oracle) Niagara/Coolthreads architecture seems to work nicely enough, but maybe I'd be better off with some generic Intel/AMD based solution with fewer threads/cores but higher GHz per thread?

Re: Round robin DNS query response

2010-09-29 Thread Eivind Olsen
spreading" won't account for servers being down etc, the only failover mechanism is if whatever your clients are using is capable of retrying on a different IP-address if the first one doesn't answer. Regards Eivind Olsen ___ bind-users

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