Re: named can not find the zone file

2015-07-02 Thread Leonard Mills
Are you sure that the new system has exactly the same jail configuration as the old one?  That's the easiest thing to overlook when hurrying; I did that once myself replicating a system with an underlying OS change which ruled out my preferred dump/restore method. Hth,Len On Thursday,

Re: Automatic . NS queries from BIND

2015-06-15 Thread Leonard Mills
The hints hopefully point eventually to an authoritative server for .. Whatever that authoritative server says overrides any hints, just like any other zone's authoritative NS.  It does not matter how obsolete a delegation is, so long as  some authoritative NS replies, the data from the

Re: Doubt regarding acls and internal and external view.

2015-05-22 Thread Leonard Mills
I think you meant to say:   WWW and any other server/service  -- zone db.internalOtherfwise have your cogent explanation ready for the executive of your choice complains loudly Our web site is down  Our customers MUST have reliable access to our site! (Many executives will not think to

Re: DIG Info Request

2015-02-03 Thread Leonard Mills
Let me take a step back. The original problem is dig . would give SERVFAIL instead of NOERROR.  The . is pointed to named.ca which looks normal. Without source code changes to your tools and/or replacement hints files . invariably points to the root servers to be used by the (possibly

Re: How to figure out QPS in bind 9.9

2014-08-07 Thread Leonard Mills
At about 3:26 AM on 07 AUG 2014 Gaurav Kansal asked: ... Is there any way out to figure out the same ? Here are two easy approaches: Create a simple database or sequence of files containing the results of an all star crontab entry.  The persistent storage entries coming over the statistics

Re: OT: Authoritative Server returning RR's with decrementing TTL's?

2014-07-31 Thread Leonard Mills
The never changes TTLs are from zones for which the server is authoritative.  Otherwise, the TTL is the decrementing time-in-cash-before-required-refetchng. hth, Len On Thursday, July 31, 2014 12:56 PM, Ray Van Dolson rvandol...@esri.com wrote: Not BIND-related specifically... (though the

Re: About the prefetch function within bind 9.10.

2014-05-17 Thread Leonard Mills
Taking the CNAME line in the response, please notice that the published TTL is 60 seconds.  Prefetch does not cause named to ignore TTLs. hth, Len ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list

Re: Need help debugging my zone file

2014-01-26 Thread Leonard Mills
Easy fix.. These two records can not coexist:     www.espersunited.com.          IN CNAME carter.espersunited.com.     www.espersunited.com.        IN A 192.168.0.2 The error message was completely correct in saying:     failed: CNAME and other data In this particular case, the other data was

Re: Generic reasons for recursive performance not to peg CPU?

2014-01-13 Thread Leonard Mills
not pegging the CPU? I'm aware that there will be a difference in qps between auth-only and recursive, but the recursive server seems to be working a lot less hard than the auth server, and I can't figure out why. Doug On 01/12/2014 06:07 PM, Leonard Mills wrote: Are you allowing long answers

Re: rndc addzone gets permission denied

2014-01-13 Thread Leonard Mills
You previously showed your unsuccessful rndc command.  It contained: 'type slave; file slaves/zone.local; Unless you override the defaults, that says: use the file /var/named/slaves/zone.local. So it appears that the directory /var/named/slaves was not writable. Hth, Len On

Re: Generic reasons for recursive performance not to peg CPU?

2014-01-12 Thread Leonard Mills
Are you allowing long answers when authoritative?  Performance measurements with and without additional data in responses is measurable (imo around 12% more network traffic from the replies on auth-only servers). hth, Len On Sunday, January 12, 2014 5:54 PM, Doug Barton do...@dougbarton.us

Re: Query regardign CNAME

2014-01-01 Thread Leonard Mills
Not with a CNAME, but you can get what you want with two zone definitions and one $INCLUDE directive in each zone below the appropriate $ORIGIN statements.  That way will allow all of your, for example, RRs to be the same in each domain but only be maintained in one entry. hth, Len

Re: Adding DS records

2013-12-20 Thread Leonard Mills
AIUI, it is not their name servers (which clearly support the records when secondary), it's their hefty customer UI and their support/helpdesk folks that would require a non-cheap upgrade. That said, I have spent most of a decade as a happy customer of register.com, which was recently Borged

Re: What is proper fault-tolerant behavior?

2013-09-16 Thread Leonard Mills
At about Monday, September 16, 2013 6:54 PMDan McDaniel d...@dm3.us wrote: querying the failed fedora NS. Then it came back with a not found. My company's networking group said it's the fault of the bad fedora NS. If the fedora NS had returned SERVFAIL or if it was not reachable, your company's

Re: ISO or virtual appliance

2013-08-22 Thread Leonard Mills
That appears to be a strange desire.  If you need such high levels of never allow a normal retry you might look at using either Prolexic or Akami services to create a geographically-diverse network topology.  Or even a simple 3DNS or router package at your borders with a few inner-DMZ systems

Re: Reverse Lookups with Forwarders

2013-07-09 Thread Leonard Mills
Sorry for top-post. Your expectation is incorrect.     zone 0/24.110.252.173.in-addr.arpa is not the same as     zone 173.252.110.24.in-addr.arpa hth, Len From: sumsum 2000 sum2h...@gmail.com To: bind-users@lists.isc.org Sent: Monday, July 8, 2013 11:21 PM

Re: Reverse address entries

2013-06-28 Thread Leonard Mills
At about Friday, June 28, 2013 10:54 AM Ward, Mike S mw...@ssfcu.org wrote: Hello all, is there any reason to setup reverse address entries for a zone? It very much depends on the reasons for the forward entries.  For example: Commercial backup software for Microsoft servers require

Re: Res_query Seg Faulting for a FQDN

2013-06-26 Thread Leonard Mills
Hello Alok, Something may have changed at the name servers for bvt-rhe63-32s.ipv6domain.com.  Right now, both ns.addpac.co.kr (61.33.161.2) and ns.addpac.com (61.33.161.2) are returning NXDOMAIN for bvt-rhe63-32s.ipv6domain.com.  The IP happily returns the SOA for ipv6domain.com using either NS

Re: Secondary DNS question...

2013-06-21 Thread Leonard Mills
OK, Jeff, would it be possible for you to share the entire non-delivery notification as seen by one of your customers?  (You might have to establish an account at Y!, gmail, etc. for your customer to use in sending the NDN, in which case have the customer include the full headers from the NDN

Re: bind 2.1a3 on centos 6.4

2013-06-21 Thread Leonard Mills
Hi Brian, I don't understand why you would expect to see errors, when nslint says:     nslint: 0/131072 items used, 0 errors Zero items used/checked strongly implies zero errors can be detected. hth, Len From: Brian Cuttler br...@wadsworth.org To:

Re: any requests

2013-06-03 Thread Leonard Mills
If your some of your clients are SMTP relays, then ANY is the default lookup for an MX and is perfectly normal. Much better from the point of view of the mail servers to do one lookup instead of several. Len From: hugo hugoo hugo...@hotmail.com To: Vernon

Re: does zone trump forward?

2013-06-02 Thread Leonard Mills
As I understand  AUTHORITATIVE trumps anything.  For example, from an inside intranet name server forward the root (.) to somewhere on your edge, sprinkle in a few internal-only authoritative zones, and enjoy.  This is certainly not the only choice, but it functions pretty well. Len

Re: Can two views be layered?

2013-04-06 Thread Leonard Mills
  Novosielski, Ryan novos...@umdnj.edu wrote on about Friday, April 5, 2013 10:31 PM $INCLUDE db.example.com @    IN    A    192.168.50.50 It may be obvious, but one needs to be aware that any $ORIGIN statements in the included file may cause unexpected

Re: Registrar that supports self-run domains and provides DNSSEC support

2013-02-18 Thread Leonard Mills
Moving registration away from NetSol is documented at http://www.networksolutions.com/support/preparing-a-domain-name-for-a-transfer-out-of-network-solutions/ If you have a good number of domains, and that number changes frequently, you might want to consider CSC

Re: lame-servers: error (FORMERR) resolving [something]

2013-01-14 Thread Leonard Mills
Packet dumps at your edge would likely be helpful to your diagnosis. At your firewall (or other edge appliance) you are seeing successful UDP from a high port on your system (DNS client) to port 53 on the server and a reply in the opposite direction.  You are not seeing success from an external

Re: bind

2011-12-04 Thread Leonard Mills
From: Rajiv bra...@mercantile.com.np wrote at about Sunday, December 4, 2011 12:24 AM Subject: bind ... I am getting below error while  updating the new Name server to IANA. The NS RR-set returned by the authoritative name server [xxx.xxx.xxx] are not the same as the

Re: DNS Appliance

2009-03-25 Thread Leonard Mills
Actually, they have dozens scattered around the planet (they happen to have a local headquarters that I've visited), so there are always support folks working in their local daylight. :-) Len From: John D. Vo j...@eagle.net To: Steve Lancaster