Re: windows client request timed out

2015-06-22 Thread Fr34k
Put a dot at the end of the query hostname so that Windows doesn't add whatever the domain name suffix/es the Windows client may be configured with.That is,   nslookup google.com. It may be the case that the windows client is adding whatever domain name suffix/es it has been configured with (e.g

Re: windows client request timed out

2015-06-22 Thread Fr34k
ne 22, 2015 8:40 AM, Fr34k wrote: Put a dot at the end of the lookup so that Windows doesn't added whatever the domain name suffix/es it may be configured with.That is,   nslookup google.com. I suspect the windows client is adding whatever the domain name suffix/es

Re: ASSERT messages

2014-04-10 Thread Fr34k
Maybe this: 3212. [bug] rbtdb.c: failed to remove a node from the deadnodes list prior to adding a reference to it leading a possible assertion failure. [RT #23219] source: ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.8.6/CHANGES Note:  I stopped l

Re: BIND 9.9.1-P4 is now available

2012-10-26 Thread Fr34k
Hello Jeremy, Thank you for your reply. I plan to send more information to ISC when I have it - FYI Looks like my response didn't make it out yesterday, so here is another attempt. Please see my responses within below: - Original Message - > From: Jeremy C. Reed > To:

Re: BIND 9.9.1-P4 is now available

2012-10-25 Thread Fr34k
Hello Jeremy, Thank you for your reply. >> Let me define what "hung" means in our experience:  We find that named is >> running but will not respond to queries, "rndc status" will respond with >> output but that output shows that named is not processing any queries (see >> below), other rndc com

Re: BIND 9.9.1-P4 is now available

2012-10-25 Thread Fr34k
I would like to report. Thank you. >____ > From: Fr34k >To: Bindlist >Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2012 9:51 AM >Subject: Re: BIND 9.9.1-P4 is now available > > >Hello, > > >We are finding several of our recursive BIND 9.9.1-P3 s

Re: BIND 9.9.1-P4 is now available

2012-10-25 Thread Fr34k
Hello, We are finding several of our recursive BIND 9.9.1-P3 servers (on Solaris 10 OS) hung and I want to be able to qualify the symptoms in order to convince others that P4 (or 9.9.2?) will (or will not) address this. Let me define what "hung" means in our experience:  We find that named is

Re: A lot of queries from a customer.

2012-07-17 Thread Fr34k
We have been monitoring the same. Google found an unrelated, yet similar, issue a few years ago:  http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/netgear-sntp/#ToC16 > > From: Rafael Molina >To: bind-users@lists.isc.org >Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2012 8:30 AM >Subject: A lo

Re: Loaded zone files query

2012-07-10 Thread Fr34k
ritivly answer nosuch* for it). > >As best as I can tell >number of zones: X >x=number of zones listed in named.conf + any automatically added zones > > >not quite what he's asking for, but I've not been able to find a better >answer ei

Re: Loaded zone files query

2012-07-10 Thread Fr34k
rndc status Is this a trick question? > > From: Kirk Hoganson >To: bind-users@lists.isc.org >Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 3:22 PM >Subject: Loaded zone files query > > >Does anyone know of a simple way to discover how many zone files bind has >successfully l

Re: limiting number of requests of a single hosts

2012-06-15 Thread Fr34k
Hello, You may wish to read ISC/BIND's ARM about these settings (i.e., what they do, how they work, what the defaults are, etc):     recursive-clients N;     tcp-clients M;     clients-per-query P;     max-clients-per-query R; where N, M, P, and R are numbers appropriate for y

Re: Delegation bit-rot detection?

2012-06-14 Thread Fr34k
We are exploring similar audits and opportunities for cleanup. For domains we delegate PTRs, we track NS hostnames (e.g. IN NS  ns1.bogus.customer.tld) that have gone NXDOMAIN. If ns1.bogus.customer.tld remains NXDOMAIN for 30+ days, we remove the delegation. The idea behind 30+ days is to allo

Re: Exclude a domain from DNSSEC validation, like Unbound's "domain-insecure".

2012-04-26 Thread Fr34k
Great question (Augie) and great feedback (JP). As DNSSEC is adopted, some type of mitigation process will be welcomed. For that reason, I think this is on topic. > > From: Jan-Piet Mens >To: bind-users@lists.isc.org >Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 2:51 PM

Re: SERVFAIL with ocsp.entrust.net.

2012-04-24 Thread Fr34k
Perhaps provide the ocsp.entrust.net folks 3rd party evaluation tool(s) to identify areas of concerns? For example, here are two: http://www.dnsvalidation.com/reports/4f96bdec7d79ee78db44 http://www.intodns.com/ocsp.entrust.net These find more than one critical item to fix. Why is everyone

9.9.x Train Inquiry for ISC

2012-04-24 Thread Fr34k
Dear ISC et al., Within the last month, we've seen new versions for the 9.8.x, 9.7.x, and 9.6.x trains. http://www.isc.org/software/bind/versions Should we expect a 9.9.0 update in the near future (e.g., 9.9.1)? Any status would be appreciated. Thank you for all your support!

max-cache-ttl usage and best-practices

2012-03-13 Thread Fr34k
Hi All, I wanted some feedback on max-cache-ttl usage and best-practices, please. The BIND 9 ARM says: "max-cache-ttl Sets the maximum time for which the server will cache ordinary (positive) answers. The default is one week (7 days). A value of zero may cause all queries to return SERVFAIL

Re: DNS Amplification Attack Mitigation

2012-03-13 Thread Fr34k
Hello, Did I miss any feedback on this, or perhaps there isn't any to offer (?) Thank you. > > From: Fr34k >To: Bindlist >Sent: Friday, March 9, 2012 10:30 AM >Subject: DNS Amplification Attack Mitigation > > > >All, > &

DNS Amplification Attack Mitigation

2012-03-09 Thread Fr34k
All, I am (we all are (?)) interested in techniques for mitigating DNS amplification attacks for both recursive and authoritative BIND servers (versions 9.x). Google found http://www.secureworks.com/research/threats/dns-amplification/ and http://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/prg/em/ccirc/2009/av09-

Re: variable dig results

2012-01-06 Thread Fr34k
I suspect that dig is confused.  Let me explain. Looks like WHOIS says that these (2) servers are authoritative for this domain: ns1.thehartford.com.   ['162.136.188.1']   [TTL=172800] ns2.thehartford.com.   ['162.136.190.1']   [TTL=172800] However, the DNS configuration says something diffe

Re: Trouble looking up dacspro.com

2011-12-23 Thread Fr34k
Disregard.  PEBKAC issue. Happy Holidays. - Original Message - > From: Fr34k > To: Bindlist > Cc: > Sent: Friday, December 23, 2011 2:09 PM > Subject: Trouble looking up dacspro.com > > > > Hello, > > Having trouble looking up dacspro.com. > >

Trouble looking up dacspro.com

2011-12-23 Thread Fr34k
Hello, Having trouble looking up dacspro.com. This domain has three NS servers, one of which is not responding (ns02) to my queries. dacspro.com.    172800  IN  NS  ns01.gnenc.org. dacspro.com.    172800  IN  NS  ns02.gnenc.org. dacspro.com.    172800 

Re: Question About max-clients-per-query

2011-11-18 Thread Fr34k
Hello, Read the BIND ARM (Admin Ref. Manual) about these settings, but here is an example of what I use:     clients-per-query 10 ;     max-clients-per-query 20 ; http://www.isc.org/software/bind/documentation Previously, this resource was posted on this list which is good info to have

open_socket, permission denied

2011-10-25 Thread Fr34k
Hello, Environment:  Solaris10 SPARC, BIND 9.8.1 Anomaly:  In our logs, we have been noticing "open_socket... permission denied..." entries.  For example,   named[15910]: [ID 873579 daemon.warning] dispatch 2bcf50: open_socket(::#2049) -> permission denied: continuing   named[15910]: [ID 873579

maximum number of FD events

2011-10-25 Thread Fr34k
Hello, Environment:  Solaris10 SPARC and x86, BIND 9.7.3-P3 and 9.8.1 Anomaly:  In our logs, we have been noticing "maximum number of FD events" entries.  For example,   named[8592]: [ID 873579 daemon.info] sockmgr 288760: maximum number of FD events (64) received Action:  Our web searches h

Re: DNS Sinkhole in BIND

2011-10-17 Thread Fr34k
http://www.sans.org/reading_room/whitepapers/dns/dns-sinkhole_33523 Perhaps the above link target may help. Thanks. > >From: "Lightner, Jeff" >To: Ryan Novosielski ; babu dheen ; >Bind Users Mailing List ; "c...@cam.ac.uk" > >Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 4:

Re: named crashed (mem.c:1099: INSIST(ctx->stats[i].gets == 0U) failed)

2011-05-05 Thread Fr34k
Hello All, Thanks Evan. Should the Community expect a BIND 9.7.3 train update/maintenance release which, among other things, addresses this mem.c issue? If so, any ETA? It is not my intent to sound pushy. Let me explain. We were in the process of rolling 9.7.3 out but we stopped figuring a

Re: BIND 9.7 behavior - lack of response causes

2011-04-05 Thread Fr34k
- Original Message > From: Mark Andrews > To: Fr34k > Cc: Bindlist > Sent: Mon, April 4, 2011 9:02:35 PM > Subject: Re: BIND 9.7 behavior - lack of response causes > > > What do you have lame-ttl set to? I don't. That is, I don't have lame-ttl

BIND 9.7 behavior - lack of response causes

2011-04-04 Thread Fr34k
Hello, Given: BIND 9.7.2-P2 on Solaris 10. For about an hour, I had a network event where a caching DNS server could not get recursive queries back from authoritative DNS servers on the Internet. Obviously, this is a problem. Moreover, the authority for our most popular hostnames have set ver

Re: Q on clients-per-query, max-clients-per-query

2011-03-24 Thread Fr34k
- Original Message > From: Mark Andrews > To: Fr34k > Cc: Bindlist > Sent: Wed, March 23, 2011 9:04:00 PM > Subject: Re: Q on clients-per-query, max-clients-per-query > > > In message <>, Fr34k writes: > > Hello, > > > > # The ARM

Q on clients-per-query, max-clients-per-query

2011-03-23 Thread Fr34k
Hello, # The ARM says: # clients-per-query, max-clients-per-query These set the initial value (minimum) and maximum number of recursive simultaneous clients for any given query () that the server will accept before dropping additional clients. named will attempt to self tune this value and chan

Re: [OT] does deliveragent must have a PTR RR

2011-02-01 Thread Fr34k
See RFC1123 and RFC1912 which suggest that legitimate nodes on the Internet have appropriate forward/reverse DNS entries. By appropriate, I mean DNS entires which distinguish which hosts are static/business space from residential/dhcp space. Reason: So others on the Internet can make informed

Re: Crashed Bind

2010-11-19 Thread Fr34k
Most likely a bug. Either way, that version is EOL and ISC's recommended course of action is " Upgrade to ESV or Current" http://www.isc.org/software/bind/versions > >From: Juan O >To: bind-users@lists.isc.org >Sent: Fri, November 19, 2010 10:18:45 AM >Subject: Crashed Bind > > Hello. >In m

Re: Rules against links or certain links?

2010-11-11 Thread Fr34k
Hello, I can't speak to your question, as I'm not a list administrator nor do I know the answer. However, as a list member/consumer, I do appreciate the tools people share on this list: free or pay. In fact, I use many of them as audit tools for DNS misconfigurations. I find that using a 3rd p

Re: out of place mx records.

2010-10-28 Thread Fr34k
- Original Message > From: Mark Andrews > To: Barry Margolin > Cc: comp-protocols-dns-b...@isc.org > Sent: Thu, October 28, 2010 9:49:46 PM > Subject: Re: out of place mx records. > > > In message , Barry >Mar > golin writes: > > In article , > > Tony Finch wrote: > > > > > O

Re: Notice regarding BIND 9.7.2

2010-09-28 Thread Fr34k
I was about to ask again, but figured I had better check isc.org first. Behold: http://www.isc.org/software/bind/972-p2 FYI. Thanks. - Original Message From: Hauke Lampe To: Larissa Shapiro ; bind-us...@isc.org Sent: Mon, September 27, 2010 1:07:39 PM Subject: Re: Notice regarding B

Re: Notice regarding BIND 9.7.2

2010-09-27 Thread Fr34k
Hello, Were there "... more information on these developments early next week"? My apologies if I missed them. Thank you. - Original Message From: Larissa Shapiro To: bind-us...@isc.org Sent: Sun, September 19, 2010 5:54:15 PM Subject: Notice regarding BIND 9.7.2 Dear User Communi

Re: recursing stop at about 1000 clients

2010-07-16 Thread Fr34k
What does the following command show: rndc status - Original Message From: Kebba Foon To: Noel Butler Cc: bind-users@lists.isc.org Sent: Fri, July 16, 2010 4:41:50 AM Subject: Re: recursing stop at about 1000 clients am running 9.6-ESV-R1 on Debian 5.0 lenny On Fri, 2010-07-16

Re: bind multi-threaded question

2010-04-28 Thread Fr34k
Hello, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_%28computing%29 may help to explain what is going on. HTH From: max power To: bind-users@lists.isc.org Sent: Wed, April 28, 2010 4:38:06 AM Subject: bind multi-threaded question Hi i am deploying a new dns ser

Re: Apparent BIND problem doing RBL lookups for Postfix

2010-04-15 Thread Fr34k
Hello, Looks like NXDOMAIN can be one of the responses. http://www.spamhaus.org/faq/answers.lasso?section=DNSBL%20Usage#252 That said, I think it is working correctly (a la "name=33.229.242.205.zen.spamhaus.org type=A: Host not found, try again"). However, perhaps tweak the number of que

Re: Bind Clustering

2010-04-08 Thread Fr34k
Hello, We used rsync to copy our master/primary data to the secondary servers. Using some script magic, the primary is still the master (via named.conf) since, as with most DBs, there can only be one source of truth. However, the secondary servers were almost mirror copies of the primary. Only

Re: Using an MX record from a different domain

2010-03-30 Thread Fr34k
Hello, named-checkzone is warning you that the MX has a different FQDN than the zone it is in. This is fine so long as the "out of zone" MX record is valid, but named-checkzone wants you to know that it can't verify for sure. So, it is a heads up message and why the ultimate response is "OK". I

Re: Reverse DNS on a /27 delegation and zone files

2010-03-29 Thread Fr34k
Hello, Sufficient resources on the Internet may be helpful. For example, http://www.indelible.org/ink/classless/ Searching for "RFC2317" or "classless in-addr.arpa delegation" may result in additional references. Hope this helps. - Original Message From: Alex To: bind-users@lists.i

Re: what is a SPF (type 99) record and who do I implement?

2010-03-24 Thread Fr34k
http://www.openspf.org/ is pretty good. Not only does it build the file for you, but it can test your live record. From: Security Admin (NetSec) To: "bind-users@lists.isc.org" Sent: Wed, March 24, 2010 4:26:46 PM Subject: RE: what is a SPF (type 99) record an

Re: no more recursive clients: quota reached

2010-03-24 Thread Fr34k
See the BIND ARM for the option recursive-clients As in: options { recursive-clients 4000; }; I don't recall what the default is (maybe 1000), but our environment required an increase to 4000. You may also want to look at these options: tcp-clients X; clients-per-query N; max-c

Re: blockhole'd IP receiving referral?

2009-12-19 Thread Fr34k
Hello, Chris, I believe you are correct. That is, "blackhole applies to the sending of queries in addition to the receiving of queries". Let me explain. I discovered this the hard way. I had a /24 in the blackhole because it contained abusive clients. Within this /24 sat two legitimate authori

Re: Nslookup not showng TTL

2009-10-15 Thread Fr34k
If you didn't know, you can download dig for Windows. For example: http://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.6.1-P1/BIND9.6.1-P1.zip Just stick dig.exe and the dll files in a directory that makes sense in your environment and enjoy! HTH - Original Message From: John Horne To: Bind users Sent:

Re: BIND 9.x and hint file

2009-08-31 Thread Fr34k
Thank you Chris! This is what I was looking for. - Original Message From: Chris Thompson To: Fr34k Cc: Bind Users Mailing List Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 12:33:57 PM Subject: Re: BIND 9.x and hint file On Aug 31 2009, Fr34k wrote: >I thought with some version of BIND 9, one

Re: BIND 9.x and hint file

2009-08-31 Thread Fr34k
That's exactly what I was recalling -- thanks for your time and response Mr. Reed. - Original Message From: Jeremy C. Reed To: Fr34k Cc: Bindlist Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 12:37:05 PM Subject: Re: BIND 9.x and hint file On Mon, 31 Aug 2009, Fr34k wrote: > I thought w

BIND 9.x and hint file

2009-08-31 Thread Fr34k
Hi All, I thought with some version of BIND 9, one no longer needed a root hints file. I can't recall the details and my google searches are finding how to set up a hints file (instead of suggesting this is, say, deprecated). Can someone shed some light on this? Thanks

Re: 9.5.1-P3 upgrade woes?

2009-08-04 Thread Fr34k
Hello, I think 9.5.0.x versions needed to be compiled with additional file descriptors; otherwise, socket issues were common on "busy" servers. Perhaps test bind-9.5.1p3 or bind-9.6.1p1, which I see listed for Sol9/x86 on sunfreeware. HTH From: "Ewasiuk, G

Re: about tcp port 53

2009-07-29 Thread Fr34k
Hello, Doing a search on this at www.google.com offers this first link: http://www.tcpipguide.com/free/t_DNSMessageGenerationandTransport-2.htm HTH - Original Message From: Tech W. To: Stephane Bortzmeyer Cc: bind-users@lists.isc.org Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 12:35:31 AM Subj

Re: bind9 behind firewall stopped responding

2009-07-28 Thread Fr34k
If the DNS server now has a RFC1918 IP address, then one will probably have to setup appropriate NAT rules for a publicly accessible/routable IP address. On some firewalls, there is a NAT rule for incoming traffic and a another rule for outgoing traffic (basically mapping the public IP for both

Re: Truncated, retrying in TCP on Reverse lookup

2009-07-09 Thread Fr34k
        - Kevin                                                                                                     Fr34k wrote: > Hello, >  As I understand it, there are so many PTRs for that IP address, that DNS >will change protocol from UDP to TCP. > So, the message you are getting is informational because of this protocol > change. > See the

Re: Truncated, retrying in TCP on Reverse lookup

2009-07-09 Thread Fr34k
Hello, As I understand it, there are so many PTRs for that IP address, that DNS will change protocol from UDP to TCP. So, the message you are getting is informational because of this protocol change. See the long list of PTRs below. There should be one and only one PTR for that IP. Making an SM

Re: bind 9.6.1 under perform after running for a couple of hours

2009-07-08 Thread Fr34k
Hello, A few of the default settings changed from 9.4.x to 9.6.x The appropriate README files, change logs, and BIND ARM will provide details about them. Below are some options and logging configurations you may want to investigate. Ye Ole Disclaimer: Please be sure to understand what these do a

Re: SPF/TXT records

2009-06-19 Thread Fr34k
Hello, Do I dare comment on this? Okay, I do... RE: Advogato: If security was easy and conveinent, then everything would be secure. Someone tell Advogato! Advogato is complaining because they want an unmanagable environment of dynamic outbound relays and expect SPF, static DNS records, to keep

Re: URL Redirection via DNS

2009-04-24 Thread Fr34k
I think in Apache, URL redirection is done via "rewrite": http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/Rewrite I hope this helps with the intial question since this at the application layer. While this may help with the original question, this is now off topic. From: Jeff Ligh

Re: DNS Appliance

2009-03-25 Thread Fr34k
Our experience with blue(s)cat was not a good one. That product would sporadically lose all of our zones. Vendor blamed us (so did our angry customers). Thing was, no one was in the office. We came into work one morning to phones ringing -- no DNS. DNS because master config was empty. FTW? Mig

Re: Make changes en mass

2009-03-24 Thread Fr34k
Hello, Some folks prefer to script something. Some may find this tool helpful: http://www.laffeycomputer.com/rpl.html I'm sure there are other ways. HTH - Original Message From: John D. Vo To: bind-users@lists.isc.org Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 1:03:22 PM Subject: Make changes e

Re: DNS server can resolve some domains - BIND 9.4.2-P1

2009-02-26 Thread Fr34k
For Solaris9 kernal tunables, this may help: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-7137/6md5pauj7?l=en&a=view But note that in my experience BIND 9.4.x will not use these OS limits, but what how many FDs have compiled BIND with. For our purposes, 9.5.1b2 worked great on Solaris9 We are now runnin

Re: What to do about openDNS

2009-01-20 Thread Fr34k
Hello, The ole rainy day bite. Some quick ideas for dealing with, what I will call, defunct domains. FIRST, STOP THE MADNESS: Define what a defunct zone is in your TOS/AUP, so you have the power to deal with this situation as you see fit. DEAL WITH IT AS YOU SEE FIT: Setup that wildcard for th

Re: SERVFAIL issues

2009-01-16 Thread Fr34k
Hello, Has the "max-cache-size" setting in named.conf been considered? If not, note that in early releases of 9.5.x max-cache-size is 32M by default instead of unlimited as in 9.4.x >From the CHANGES file with the bind-9.5.0-P2 source: ""max-cache-size" defaults to 32M" Using: max-cache-size 0

9.5.1b2 rbtdb.c assertion failure

2008-12-31 Thread Fr34k
Hello, Running 9.5.1b2 on Solaris9. Crashed with this info: Dec 31 13:04:25 named[308]: [ID 873579 daemon.crit] rbtdb.c:1482: REQUIRE((node)->references > 0) failed Dec 31 13:04:25 named[308]: [ID 873579 daemon.crit] exiting (due to assertion failure) Dec 31 13:05:07 genunix: [ID 603404 kern.no

Re: how to archieve this?

2008-12-05 Thread Fr34k
No reason to spend that type of cash for SLB DNS. I would suggest Foundry SIXL for 1/4 of the cost http://www.foundrynet.com/products/app-switch/fixed-systems/si-xl.html No, I don't work for Foundry. - Original Message From: Ken DBA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: bind-users ; Kevin Darcy <[E

Re: How to modify "A" records on the slave when master is down?

2008-12-03 Thread Fr34k
Hello, We leverage rsync: http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/ over scp (copy only those files changed automagically over SSH), perl, and cron. Basically, a config DNS server super-master where you do all your changes and test them. This super-master rsync's to several over DNS servers (say X servers

Re: socket: too many open file descriptors

2008-11-18 Thread Fr34k
Hello, When we were using 9.5.0-P2, we had to compile with 4096 FDs; otherwise, we saw the same socket complaints. The default only has 1024. It would appear that your environment may require more FDs as ours did. HTH -- Chris   - Original Message From: pollex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> T