Re: Refreshing cache in other DNS Servers

2013-10-16 Thread Manson, John
I would add that Windows PC OSs by default have the dns client cache set to 'enable'. John Manson U.S. House of Representatives | HIR Data Communications | Washington, DC 20515 Desk: 202-226-4244 | NCC: 202-226-6430 | john.man...@mail.house.gov ___

What is proper fault-tolerant behavior?

2013-09-17 Thread Manson, John
To add to Len's comments, bind will keep going to the partially broken Fedora dns as long as it has the fastest response time. As a short term fix, you can use the 'blackhole' option to prevent your dns from sending queries to that IP. John Manson U.S. House of Representatives | HIR Data

Re: bind-users Digest, Vol 1560, Issue 1

2013-07-02 Thread Manson, John
Give each instance of named a unique name: A-named, b-named, etc - Original Message - From: bind-users-requ...@lists.isc.org [mailto:bind-users-requ...@lists.isc.org] Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2013 08:00 AM To: bind-users@lists.isc.org bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: bind-users Digest,

Rate-Limit Question

2013-06-14 Thread Manson, John
We are running Bind 9.9.2 and would like to invoke the rate-limit option but named says 'unknown option'. Do we need to upgrade bind to get this option? Using this syntax: rate-limit { responses-per-second 5; window 5; }; Thanks John Manson US House of Representatives

Views Question

2013-04-30 Thread Manson, John
If the 'type' info in a zone statement determines master or slave, can you have 2 views in the same named.conf file, one with type master zones and the other with type slave zones? John Manson CAO/HIR/NAF Data-Communications | U.S. House of Representatives | Washington, DC 20515 Desk:

Mirror Masters

2013-04-23 Thread Manson, John
We have a second master at a different location and I was wondering if there is any way to have the first master send db file updates to it using file transfers like it does to the slaves. We currently do db file transfers between masters with sftp and would like to stop using OS processes and

Solaris 11

2013-04-15 Thread Manson, John
I searched www.isc.orghttp://www.isc.org to no avail. Is bind 9.9.x compatible with Solaris 11? Anything out of the ordinary with compiling and such? Thanks John Manson CAO/HIR/NAF Data-Communications | U.S. House of Representatives | Washington, DC 20515 Desk: 202-226-4244 | TCC: 202-226-6430

Recursion issue

2013-03-28 Thread Manson, John
My external authoritative dns does not allow recursion. We have vanity names like speaker.gov. When we add an entry like: www.speaker.govhttp://www.speaker.gov CNAME www.house.govhttp://www.house.gov it fails because of the recursion statement even though the external dns is

RE: Recursion issue

2013-03-28 Thread Manson, John
:00) So the first lookup does not fully resolve due to recursion. Does this help? -Original Message- From: Chris Buxton [mailto:cli...@buxtonfamily.us] Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2013 11:13 AM To: Manson, John Cc: bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: Re: Recursion issue On Mar 28, 2013, at 7

RE: Recursion issue

2013-03-28 Thread Manson, John
: test.gopleader@mercury.house.gov: test.gopleader.gov. 300 IN CNAME testwww.house.gov. -Original Message- From: Chris Buxton [mailto:cli...@buxtonfamily.us] Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2013 11:49 AM To: Manson, John Cc: bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: Re: Recursion issue On Mar 28

RE: Recursion issue

2013-03-28 Thread Manson, John
, 2013 11:49 AM To: Manson, John Cc: bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: Re: Recursion issue On Mar 28, 2013, at 8:27 AM, Manson, John wrote: From the internet: Answer records name class typedatatime to live test.gopleader.govIN CNAME testwww.house.gov Testwww from

RE: Recursion issue

2013-03-28 Thread Manson, John
...@buxtonfamily.us] Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2013 12:57 PM To: Manson, John Cc: bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: Re: Recursion issue On Mar 28, 2013, at 9:05 AM, Manson, John wrote: I disagree with your statement about recursion. What stops an authoritative server from doing recursion if you do

Recursion Issue

2013-03-28 Thread Manson, John
http://www.digwebinterface.com/? Is one of the internet sites I use. John Manson CAO/HIR/NAF Data-Communications | U.S. House of Representatives | Washington, DC 20515 Desk: 202-226-4244 | TCC: 202-226-6430 | john.man...@mail.house.govmailto:john.man...@mail.house.gov

Hack Attempt?

2013-03-27 Thread Manson, John
Found this entry in external named log: Mar 26 20:07:18 local@mercury named[4043]: [ID 873579 daemon.notice] client 72.13.58.93#39043: view outhouse: notify question section contains no SOA This IP is not one of mine. Does the word 'notify' related to zone transfers or something else. Thanks

FW: CVE-2013-2266 Question

2013-03-27 Thread Manson, John
In the work around section of this notice, it talks about 'make clear' and editing a file statement. No problem with that. Does 'make clear' affect the running named or is it best to stop named and start it afterward? Do I also need to run configure again or just make? Will dig and rndc be

Transfers-out

2013-01-08 Thread Manson, John
Can this option be used in a 'slave' config to prevent out-bound transfers? Transfers-out 0; The 9.9.2 ARM is ambiguous. Thanks John Manson CAO/HIR/NAF Data-Communications | U.S. House of Representatives | Washington, DC 20515 Desk: 202-226-4244 | TCC: 202-226-6430 |

Named stopped loging?

2012-12-28 Thread Manson, John
Good Day Running 9.9.2 for about a month now with no worries. Today I noticed only the reload message in the namedlog and not the zone messages that are usually there after stopping and restarting the named process. Worked fine on the 26th but not today. Logs sample: Dec 26 15:01:52

FW: Named stopped loging?

2012-12-28 Thread Manson, John
I would like to retract this post after I had a long conversation with my co-worker who is just back from leave. Sorry for the bother. From: Manson, John Sent: Friday, December 28, 2012 10:54 AM To: 'bind-users@lists.isc.org' Subject: Named stopped loging? Good Day Running 9.9.2 for about

TCP retransmission counters for

2012-11-30 Thread Manson, John
Keep it simple. We use syslog-ng and named logging set to default. We get entries like this so it is easy to see who is talking to who and how long it is taking. Sample from one of our external servers. Redacted where necessary: Nov 27 09:42:44 local@mercury named[17686]: [ID 873579 daemon.info]

Bind 9.9.2 ADB Question Update

2012-11-15 Thread Manson, John
The adb grow-names process? does not appear to be related to recursive cache as I cleared cache while monitoring syslog and the counter kept increasing. However a reload did start the adb grow-names process anew. Both shown below . . . Nov 14 15:25:40 local@mercury named[2920]: [ID 873579

Bind 9.9.2 ADB Question

2012-11-14 Thread Manson, John
Just upgraded to 9.9.2 today and am seeing the following in syslog for the first time: Nov 14 15:08:58 local@mercury named[2920]: [ID 873579 daemon.info] adb: grow_names to 6143 starting Nov 14 15:08:58 local@mercury named[2920]: [ID 873579 daemon.info] adb: grow_names finished I gather this

Bind 9.9.2 Clarification

2012-11-01 Thread Manson, John
Should I install bind 9.9.0 first and then update to bind 9.9.1 then update to bind 9.9.2? This excerpt from the README file is a little confusing: BIND 9.9.2 BIND 9.9.2 is a maintenance release and patches the security flaw described in CVE-2012-4244. BIND 9.9.1 BIND

Possible DDoS?

2012-10-17 Thread Manson, John
From time to time I notice a large number of queries like these to one of my external dns servers: 14:14:40.01407 121.10.105.66 - 143.231.1.67 DNS C gop.gov. Internet * ? 14:14:40.01529 121.10.105.66 - 143.231.1.67 DNS C speaker.gov. Internet * ? 14:14:40.03688 121.10.105.66 - 143.231.1.67 DNS C

Bind 9.7.3 Options Table

2012-10-15 Thread Manson, John
While googling for 'default' config file options, I found this chart. http://www.ipamworldwide.com/component/content/article/48-dns-isc/98-bind-973-options.html It does not take the place of the ARM but seems helpful. Enjoy John Manson CAO/HIR/NAF Data-Communications | U.S. House of

RE:Root Hints Updates

2012-09-06 Thread Manson, John
This url works. http://www.internic.net/domain/named.root You can edit your hints file to change or add info, just be sure to follow the existing format. JM ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this

Re: Zone Transfer issue on BIND9

2012-08-27 Thread Manson, John
The key names will show up in syslog messages along with IPs and view names. Compare master and slave syslogs for clues. JM -- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2012 11:48:47 -0400 From: John Wingenbach b...@wingenbach.org To:

What can cause excessive amount of _dns-sd queries?

2012-08-23 Thread Manson, John
Good explanation of Service Discovery: http://www.dns-sd.org/ Also, Bonjour is a big offender: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonjour_%28software%29 A lot of Apple apps use it like itunes. -Original Message- From: bind-users-bounces+john.manson=mail.house@lists.isc.org

What can cause excessive amount of _dns-sd queries?

2012-08-23 Thread Manson, John
In our case, 90% of the dns-sd queries were for the 192.168 network. These are from 1 client: DNS C db._dns-sd._udp.0.158.168.192.in-addr.arpa. Internet PTR ? DNS C dr._dns-sd._udp.0.158.168.192.in-addr.arpa. Internet PTR ? DNS C lb._dns-sd._udp.0.158.168.192.in-addr.arpa. Internet PTR ? DNS C

RE: Delayed Zone Transfers

2012-08-06 Thread Manson, John
One thing about views, since named.conf is read 'top down', you have to exclude IP pairs used for tranfers by the 2nd view from the 1st view. All our tranfers happen in 1 second or less on average. JM -Original Message- From: bind-users-bounces+john.manson=mail.house@lists.isc.org

Default Options

2012-06-05 Thread Manson, John
Is there a command for bind that will list all Options default names and settings in named.conf? Might be helpful in understanding why bind is acting a certin way. Thanks John Manson CAO/HIR/NI Data-Communications | U.S. House of Representatives | Washington, DC 20515 Desk: 202-226-4244 |

VMware Bind

2012-06-05 Thread Manson, John
Will bind run on VMware? John Manson CAO/HIR/NI Data-Communications | U.S. House of Representatives | Washington, DC 20515 Desk: 202-226-4244 | Team: 202-225-5552 | john.man...@mail.house.gov ___ Please visit

RE: Default Options

2012-06-05 Thread Manson, John
defaults for 'view' and 'zone'. Thanks -Original Message- From: Evan Hunt [mailto:e...@isc.org] Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2012 3:04 PM To: Mike Hoskins Cc: Manson, John; 'bind-users@lists.isc.org' Subject: Re: Default Options Is there a command for bind that will list all Options default names

Bind9.9.1 Dependences

2012-05-22 Thread Manson, John
How can I find out which Unix files/libraries bind requires before I do the compile? Thanks John Manson CAO/HIR/NI Data-Communications | U.S. House of Representatives | Washington, DC 20515 Desk: 202-226-4244 | Team: 202-225-5552 | john.man...@mail.house.gov

RE: Bind9.9.1 Dependences

2012-05-22 Thread Manson, John
Yes It would help if you could add the version of each listed below. What are the 'few others? Thanks -Original Message- From: Dennis Clarke [mailto:dcla...@blastwave.org] Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 12:14 PM To: Manson, John Cc: 'bind-users@lists.isc.org' Subject: Re: Bind9.9.1

Secondary Master

2012-05-11 Thread Manson, John
I found this article about setting up a secondary master. This may be useful as we are bringing up a disaster recovery site. The author explains that the zone type should be 'slave'' so it can receive db updates from the normal master. Seems like that makes it a slave instead of a master for that

AEM Question

2012-04-09 Thread Manson, John
Any idea when the ARM for 9.9.0 will be published? No mention on the ISC web site. Reference and FAQ The primary documentation for BIND is the ARM, the Administrator's Reference Manual. There is a separate edition of the ARM for each major release of BIND. You can download the PDF file of the