NSLOOKUP not finding server

2008-12-16 Thread Dave
Hi, I'm hoping someone can point out where I'm going wrong as i seem to be going round in circles! I am trying to create a DNS server for my office network. I have created a smb domain (mydomain.now) which i am able to join from my windows pc's but only while the old windows DNS server is

Re: Random nx name queries, anyone see this before?

2008-12-16 Thread Dave Sparro
Alan Clegg wrote: ponga2...@gmail.com wrote: I'm seeing name queries from a couple clients on the network that occur around every two minutes - the queries are evidently random and are looking for A IN records of this form, as an example: ungzbvyf.lzghmccim They always look like this, 8

Re: Random nx name queries, anyone see this before?

2008-12-16 Thread Ian Sampson
Do you get an injected response at the same time not from the relevant root server? The only way would be to gather a tetheral dump to see if that is the case? On 16 Dec 2008, at 14:20, Alan Clegg wrote: Frank Behrens wrote: ponga2...@gmail.com ponga2...@gmail.com wrote on 15 Dec 2008

Re: Random nx name queries, anyone see this before?

2008-12-16 Thread Alan Clegg
Frank Behrens wrote: ponga2...@gmail.com ponga2...@gmail.com wrote on 15 Dec 2008 16:34: I'd be very interested in what others find. I do have an update and correction to my original post: The format is 9chars.8chars - as an example: qjnqrtfun.wxsifmgj Sometimes a colon appears, so the char

Re: dns cache performance

2008-12-16 Thread JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉
At Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:23:51 +0200, Sener ATAS sener.a...@boun.edu.tr wrote: I use BIND 9.5.0-P2 on my FreeBSD 6.4 machine as a cache server. My server has 1 gb ram and 1.4 ghz cpu. I want to improve respone time. Is it possible with configure bind with --enable-threads options? It's

Re: Install problem [resolved]

2008-12-16 Thread Fred Zinsli
Hello all Well out of curiosity I thought I would see what happened if I just installed bind, not bind9. When it went to install it asked me some questions about the original files it couldn't find and installed them. I then uninstalled bind and reinstalled binb9 as I wanted and it installed