Re: Providing AD flag for authoritative domains

2022-12-22 Thread Ray Bellis
On 22/12/2022 13:30, Jesus Cea wrote: I have a validating DNSSEC bind server. I get AD (Authenticated Data) flag when requesting details from a DNSSEC protected domain. Good. The point is that when the requested DNS name belongs to a domain with this server is authoritative and that domain

Re: CH/TXT/VERSION.SERVER queries

2022-11-21 Thread Ray Bellis
On 21/11/2022 17:26, Petr Špaček wrote: Speaking of default CHAOS zones, I have another idea: Do we need them after NSID was standardized? Yes. There is a lot of special code just for built-in CH zones, and IIRC we have had at least one CVE which affected default config only because of

Re: all resource record types and examples

2022-04-12 Thread Ray Bellis
On 12/04/2022 13:43, rams wrote: Could someone please share all supported DNS RRs and examples of each RR. That's a *very* big ask. IANA maintains a list of all RRs and pointers to the documentation for each of them:

Re: DNS cache poisoning - am I safe if I limit recursion to trusted local networks?

2022-01-04 Thread Ray Bellis
On 04/01/2022 21:12, Grant Taylor via bind-users wrote: Yep. This is where I have settled. But I don't feel I can defend it when asked. Hence my seeking to better understand. There are categories of bugs that specifically affect recursion, and in BIND these are _much_ more common than

Re: How to show run the active configuration on bind

2022-01-04 Thread Ray Bellis
On 04/01/2022 16:53, Mik J via bind-users wrote: Hello, How can I check which variables are loaded in memory and considered as active. For example, I would like to check that the value of lame-ttl is 0 In my named.conf configuration file I have include "myconf.conf"; lame-ttl 600; And in

Re: DNS cache poisoning - am I safe if I limit recursion to trusted local networks?

2022-01-04 Thread Ray Bellis
On 04/01/2022 03:52, Grant Taylor via bind-users wrote: If I'm allowing recursion and authoritative on the same server, I'd have the recursive + authoritative server do secondary zone transfers off of the internal MS-DNS / AD server.  That way the clients can get the info off of the first

DLV issue 2020/03/25

2020-03-26 Thread Ray Bellis
that DLV is disabled in all configurations. We have provided some additional guidance for this on our Knowledge Base.[2] We apologise for any disruption caused, and will be taking steps to try to ensure that this does not recur, including improvements to our monitoring systems. Ray Bellis Director

Re: Dig Hangs during axfr request when not on localhost.

2019-06-14 Thread Ray Bellis
On 14/06/2019 09:38, Pete Fry via bind-users wrote: Interestinly as we have the same problem on our dev box (running the same versions) I took the decision to install the ISC-BIND following (https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/isc/bind/) running 9.14.2 and repeated the tests and it

Re: Root zone DNSSEC KSK rollover event - 2018/10/11, 16:00 UTC

2018-09-28 Thread Ray Bellis
On 28/09/2018 10:55, Anand Buddhdev wrote: > On 11 October, the old key won't be removed. On that day, the new key > will start signing the DNSKEY RRset. The old key (id 19036), will remain > in the root zone; it just won't sign the DNSKEY RRset. Eventually, in > the first quarter of 2019, it

Root zone DNSSEC KSK rollover event - 2018/10/11, 16:00 UTC

2018-09-28 Thread Ray Bellis
for experienced BIND administrators with good familiarity with DNSSEC: <https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-01529> The second is a much more detailed document with more DNSSEC background material and an overview of the entire key roll process: <https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-01525> Ray Bellis

Re: NTP through DNS?

2018-09-23 Thread Ray Bellis
On 22/09/2018 02:39, Danny Mayer wrote: > No, that's not true. Consider what you are doing. You are substituting > SRV records for CNAME records. There is nothing magical here. NTP can > use the CNAME records. Either way the records have to be configured. > What do you think you are discovering?

Re: NTP through DNS?

2018-09-21 Thread Ray Bellis
On 21/09/2018 12:47, Danny Mayer wrote: > Putting on both my BIND9 and NTP hats for a moment: > > This answer makes no sense. NTP uses standard DNS FQDN's for all of its > references to NTP servers whether it's using pool, server or peer. I > have no idea where the reverse zone comes in though I

Re: NTP through DNS?

2018-09-19 Thread Ray Bellis
On 19/09/2018 15:59, Mauricio Tavares wrote: >> An NTP serice doesn't belong to a domain, so maybe not (I don't know of >> one off my mind). >> > Not necessarily; I can name a few universities and business who > offer their own NTP servers to their internal systems. AFAIK, this is >

Re: DNSSEC will eventually generate Identical Key ID's

2018-09-10 Thread Ray Bellis
On 09/09/2018 18:51, Mark Elkins wrote: > Just for the record, although I do look from a curiosity point of view > for Identical Key ID's once every few month - I've never seen them - > until now. > > Now I have them - generated by BIND within a few days of each other... > > I've been running

Re: how to verify Pipelined TCP and DNSCOOKIE

2018-09-04 Thread Ray Bellis
On 04/09/2018 15:13, Tony Finch wrote: > `mdig` comes with BIND and does multiple concurrent queries, so you can > check pipelining behaviour like this: > > ... > > A good selection of sites near and far should nicely demonstrate > out-of-order replies. If you don't flush the cache first then

Re: v9.12.1-P2 changed files

2018-05-18 Thread Ray Bellis
On 18/05/2018 21:28, Jim Popovitch via bind-users wrote: > Honest question Why are there so many sourcecode > modifications/additions/deletions between v9.12.1 and v9.12.1-P2? Some > files should obviously change between minor versions, but ~1300 ? > > Bin9 v9.12.1-P2 changed files: >

Re: Administrivia.

2018-04-23 Thread Ray Bellis
On 23/04/2018 16:34, Chris Thompson wrote: > To further increase our Schadenfreude, please do let the list know just > how ISC managed to let that happen! Or will you be able to blame ARIN? We're blaming ARIN :p 149.20/16 was previously delegated to us with its own DNSKEY / DS, and then we used

Re: Administrivia.

2018-04-23 Thread Ray Bellis
On 23/04/2018 14:18, Anand Buddhdev wrote: > If you repeat your query with the +cd option, you'll get a response. > > DNSViz shows problems with the DNSSEC setup of this zone. The DS and > DNSKEY records don't match: > > http://dnsviz.net/d/1.20.149.in-addr.arpa/dnssec/ Thanks for the heads up

Re: Maximum zone file size

2018-03-14 Thread Ray Bellis
On 14/03/2018 12:08, Anand Buddhdev wrote: > Not that I know of. The amount of RAM in a server is probably the most > significant limit for loading zones into BIND. Anand is correct - there's no intrinsic limit other than RAM. I personally know of BIND instances running with in the region of 25

Re: BIND9 and AS112

2018-03-09 Thread Ray Bellis
On 09/03/2018 05:32, Diarmuid O Briain wrote: > Hi, > > I have been following RFC7534 to setup an AS112 Service. I am getting > the following errors from /*systemctl*/ status, what do they mean ? > > Mar 09 08:11:43 as112 named[3787]: > ../../../../lib/isc/unix/socket.c:2104: unexpected error: >

Re: disable dnssec for particular domain

2018-02-06 Thread Ray Bellis
On 06/02/2018 16:31, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > what's the difference, when the domain doesn't exist? > > is it because .eu is signed? Perhaps, although I'm not sure why given that .eu is signed with NSEC3 and opt-out. Are you *sure* that the domain doesn't now actually exist in the DNS?

Re: disable dnssec for particular domain

2018-02-06 Thread Ray Bellis
On 06/02/2018 16:00, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > Hello, > > our customer uses a domain that is registered, but hidden > (doesn't exist in DNS). > > The domain is used by multiple organizations and we are required to forward > lookups for the domain to foreign internal servers. > > The

Re: BIND 9.11.2, named-checkconf barfs on cookie-secret

2018-01-03 Thread Ray Bellis
On 03/01/2018 12:48, Ingeborg Hellemo wrote: > What am I missing? Bug in named-checkconf? Yes, it's a known bug, fixed in the forthcoming 9.11.3 release: 4695. [bug] cookie-secrets were not being properly checked by named-checkconf. [RT #45886] kind regards, Ray

RNDC client protocol mode for NodeJS

2017-12-20 Thread Ray Bellis
For those of you that like Javascript, and like it server side, there's now an implementation of the RNDC protocol available for NodeJS: <https://www.npmjs.com/package/bind9-rndc> We hope people may find this useful. Please note that this is not officially supported ISC software. Ray

Re: Reverse Zone, Can It Be One Big Class B?

2017-11-30 Thread Ray Bellis
On 30/11/2017 22:13, Reineman, Rick wrote: > The subject is a little off, I have a Class B network masked down to > a bunch of Class C networks. > > I am replacing an old DNS service where they configured it as one > might expect with one reverse mapping file per network. So we have > many of

Re: EDNS0 client subnet in BIND 9.10

2017-11-11 Thread Ray Bellis
On 11/11/2017 19:46, Ben Croswell wrote: > The use case i am looking at is using ECS or some other mechanism to > pass the IP of client making the query to the global load-balancer. This > information could then be used by the global load-balancer in making > proximity decisions when crafting its

Re: EDNS0 client subnet in BIND 9.10

2017-11-11 Thread Ray Bellis
On 11/11/2017 04:50, Mukund Sivaraman wrote: > I'm not sure how ECS would be useful for load-balancing, as in the best > case scenario it would require one to control every client side to send > the client-subnet option. It would help if Ben provided more details about what he's trying to

Re: Secure Cert for lists web site expired?

2017-10-11 Thread Ray Bellis
On 11/10/2017 16:12, MURTARI, JOHN wrote: > lists.isc.org uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate > expired on Sunday, October 08, 2017 3:09 AM. The current time is > Wednesday, October 11, 2017 11:08 AM. Our Ops team is already aware. Thanks for the report! Ray

Re: Strange recursor response time pattern

2017-09-05 Thread Ray Bellis
On 05/09/2017 16:56, Havard Eidnes wrote: > Hmm... > > some further local discussion has made me aware that us running > "collectd" for monitoring BIND may be contributing to the > problem; collectd fetches data each 10s by using the BIND- > configured statistics-channel, thus BIND is processing

Re: Bind DNS servers: can they coexist with httpd and mail servers?

2017-07-19 Thread Ray Bellis
On 19/07/2017 11:53, Tony Finch wrote: > It's how we did things in the 1990s :-) Yup - in '96 I was running the entire set of customer-facing services for a newly-formed ISP on a single Alpha workstation :) Ray ___ Please visit

Re: designing the DNS from the scratch

2017-07-10 Thread Ray Bellis
On 10/07/2017 14:02, wbr...@e1b.org wrote: > ~3 x 10**8 m/s > > More importantly, what is the speed of light in a fiberoptic connection? ~0.66c > Speed of electrons in copper wire? Individual electrons move *very* slowly - it's the electric *field* that moves at between 0.5c and 1c.

Re: Tuning suggestions for high-core-count Linux servers

2017-06-02 Thread Ray Bellis
On 01/06/2017 23:26, Mathew Ian Eis wrote: > … and for one last really crazy idea, you could try running a pair of > named instances on the machine and fronting them with nginx’s > supposedly scalable UDP load balancer. (As long as you don’t get a > performance hit, it also opens up other

Re: Tuning suggestions for high-core-count Linux servers

2017-06-02 Thread Ray Bellis
was changed to ncores-1. This makes a *very* big difference. kind regards, Ray Bellis ISC Research Fellow ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.i

Re: Bind failing to start on new 9.9.4 server

2017-02-09 Thread Ray Bellis
On 09/02/2017 15:32, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Now doing it 'right' and seeing: > > 09-Feb-2017 09:59:52.191 could not open file '/run/named/named.pid': > Permission denied > 09-Feb-2017 09:59:52.192 generating session key for dynamic DNS > 09-Feb-2017 09:59:52.192 could not open file

Re: Bind failing to start on new 9.9.4 server

2017-02-09 Thread Ray Bellis
On 09/02/2017 14:28, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I am migrating to Centos7 from Centos6. Going from Bind 9.8.2 to 9.9.4, > I am building this on a new server. I currently do not have DNSSEC > enabled, and not enabling it for the initial migration work. > > I have looked over changes in named.conf

Re: Need of 2 $ORIGIN Directives

2016-12-21 Thread Ray Bellis
On 21/12/2016 12:57, Harshith Mulky wrote: > So I wanted to understand some things about this Domain > > A. Why are there 2 $ORIGIN directives? Because someone thought they were being clever? :) > > B. Can the above be replaced as below Yes, and you could even remove the trailing

Re: allow-query does not seem to be working

2016-08-08 Thread Ray Bellis
On 08/08/2016 20:59, Frank Even wrote: > Thanks for the info. Also I'll have to note that I completely missed > that the "offending IP" is one of the .uk root servers so the next > logical conclusion is I've probably got a box in one of my environments > driving an amplification attack of some

Re: allow-query does not seem to be working

2016-08-08 Thread Ray Bellis
On 08/08/2016 18:43, Darcy Kevin (FCA) wrote: > As already noted, allow-query will cause you to send back a REFUSED > response. That’s sort of the whole point of the REFUSED RCODE. > > > > If you want to not send back any response **whatsoever**, then take a > look at the “blackhole”

Re: named and use of resolv.conf? - how to "learn" this

2016-08-02 Thread Ray Bellis
On 02/08/2016 22:04, Matthew Pounsett wrote: > Yes it will. But, as far as I understand, it uses the recursive code > paths to do that, and won't consult resolv.conf. Yes? I believe that's correct, yes. Ray ___ Please visit

Re: named and use of resolv.conf? - how to "learn" this

2016-08-02 Thread Ray Bellis
On 02/08/2016 19:47, Matthew Pounsett wrote: > In the authoritative configuration, BIND has no need to do DNS lookups > of its own, so it wouldn't be any use there. That's not strictly true - BIND will in some circumstances use its own internal resolver to handle the host lookups for NOTIFYs and

Resend: ISC Dig for iOS

2016-06-27 Thread Ray Bellis
n officially supported ISC product, it's more of a "skunk works" project, so if you try it and have feedback please either post here on bind-users or get back to me directly. Ray Bellis ISC Research Fellow ___ Please visit https://lists

Re: writeable file 'domain.com': already in use

2016-06-16 Thread Ray Bellis
On 16/06/2016 09:01, Evan Hunt wrote: > Use the "in-view" statement so that there's only one copy of the zone > shared by both views. Yes, or that, if they really are the same zone contents in both views. Ray ___ Please visit

Re: writeable file 'domain.com': already in use

2016-06-16 Thread Ray Bellis
On 16/06/2016 07:53, Daniel Dawalibi wrote: > We are upgrading our DNS authoritative BIND version 9.10.4-P1 but we are > facing “writing errors” on the slave zone files that are transferred > from other Master DNS servers. > > Our configuration consists of two views (local and inter) and the >

Re: Enabling edns on Bind 9.9

2016-06-15 Thread Ray Bellis
On 15/06/2016 12:31, Harshith Mulky wrote: > How can I enable EDNS on the bind server? > > > Will just enabling this > > edns-udp-size size_in_bytes ; > > set the EDNS on the bind server? > > > Or is EDNS Client specfic feature? EDNS is always enabled on a BIND 9.9 server, but it's only

Re: Configuring different TTLs in multiple RRs for the same domain name, TYPE, and CLASS

2016-03-24 Thread Ray Bellis
On 24/03/2016 16:41, Tony Finch wrote: > When I changed our TTLs from 24h to 1h last year, it didn't have a visible > effect on authoritative server query load, much to my surprise. I'm not that surprised - there's definitely not a linear correlation between the TTL of an RRset and how

Re: Configuring different TTLs in multiple RRs for the same domain name, TYPE, and CLASS

2016-03-24 Thread Ray Bellis
On 24/03/2016 14:47, Ben Bridges wrote: > Greetings. > > > > Is it possible in BIND to configure multiple resource records for the > same domain name, TYPE, and CLASS with different TTL values? For example: > > ... > > I tried it, and BIND set the TTL for all five records to 300 (or more >

Re: DNS Service Discovery

2016-03-14 Thread Ray Bellis
On 14/03/2016 12:23, Phil Mayers wrote: > Stack overflow or similar may be a better place to start. Definitely not stackoverflow - unless the question is clearly programming related it would be closed with extreme prejudice. I'd suggest the OP should investigate further what's happening in the

Re: DNS BIND traffic capture ICMP/UDP

2016-01-15 Thread Ray Bellis
On 15/01/2016 13:48, Daniel Dawalibi wrote: > Hello > > > > We observed an unusual traffic combining ICMP and UDP packets while > running the tcpdump command on the DNS caching server > > Kindly note that only UDP DNS traffic is allowed on this server (ICMP is > not allowed from outside to

Re: Bind9 on VMWare

2016-01-13 Thread Ray Bellis
On 13/01/2016 12:44, Reindl Harald wrote: > where did you read that? > > we don't run *anything* on physical machines and all our nameservers > (auth, caching with a mix of bind/unbound/rbldnsd) as anything else runs > on top of VMware vSphere 5.5, previously 4.1/5.0 since 2008 ISTR that some

Re: Writeable file already in use

2016-01-05 Thread Ray Bellis
On 05/01/2016 17:03, Barry Margolin wrote: > The in-memory copy is likely to end up in the swap partition. A swap partition? I don't think I've seen one of those for years... Ray ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: Is there other methods or APIs to monitor qps?

2015-11-27 Thread Ray Bellis
On 27/11/2015 13:02, Tony Finch wrote: > Use the statistics channel, e.g. > > curl --silent http://nameserver:853/json/v1/server | jq -r .opcodes.QUERY Note that this gives you the absolute total since startup - you need to take two measurements and divide by the time between them to convert

Re: root hints operation

2015-11-17 Thread Ray Bellis
On 17/11/2015 02:09, Grant Taylor wrote: > On 11/16/2015 06:56 PM, /dev/rob0 wrote: >> You either specify a hints file to use, or use the compiled-in root >> hints. > > Interesting. I was not aware that it was an exclusive or type situation. It's important that they're exclusive - it would be

Re: SRV Request to DNS

2015-09-29 Thread Ray Bellis
On 29/09/2015 07:37, Harshith Mulky wrote: > Hi all, > > I had a query > > Let us say we are having a FQDN and we need to Resolve it. It goes > through the procedure of determining the IP and Port using NAPTR/SRV/A > query mechanisms > > The question I have is if I have a FQDN with a Port

Re: E164 Number Mapping

2015-09-24 Thread Ray Bellis
On 24/09/2015 15:26, Harshith Mulky wrote: > Hello, > > I have a question on E164 Number Mapping: > > Lets say I have a number as "9986012345" with Country Code as "1" > > For E164 Number to be mapped and to be queried from DNS, it should be > converted into ENUM domain like, > >

Re: Understanding different service fields in DNS Records

2015-08-27 Thread Ray Bellis
On 27/08/2015 13:53, Harshith Mulky wrote: Hi, Needed to understand the different Service fields used in ENUM/DNS Records specifically, E2U+sip, E2U+pstn, E2U+sip:pstn, E2U+pstn:sip and other supporting formats Is there any RFC/documents/Links which helps in understanding this various

Re: how to compile bind 9.10 with --with-libjson option

2015-08-10 Thread Ray Bellis
On 10/08/2015 04:18, Leandro wrote: Thanks !!! it compliled now ... still trying to get the json output. http://10.0.0.250:8080 works, but: http://10.0.0.250:8080/json Try http://10.0.255:8080/json/v1 [also /json/v1/mem, /json/v1/server, etc.] Ray

Re: Order and Preference Priority in DNS Responses

2015-08-03 Thread Ray Bellis
On 03/08/2015 12:38, Harshith Mulky wrote: I am expecting to receive the answer as _sip._udp.carrier1.com but i receive _sip._tcp.carrier1.com How could I change this? For applications that use NAPTR records it's the job of the client application to process and sort the entire set of NAPTR