DNSSEC and child zones on same authoritative NS. Expert help needed.

2010-03-15 Thread Gary Wallis
Let's say I have this setup : BIND 9.4 named.conf includes a master.zones file with the following: ... zone ns1.yourdomain.com { type master; file master/external/n/ns1.yourdomain.com.signed; }; zone ns2.yourdomain.com {

Re: DNSSEC HW Support

2010-03-16 Thread Gary Wallis
I'd like to get your feedback on the following thoughts regarding DNSSEC HW support. Any layer 2 or 3 devices forwarding frames or packets should not be affected by the implementation of DNSSEC regardless of the type of protocol (TCP/UDP) or the query size (large or small). Layer 4 devices

Re: DNSSEC and child zones on same authoritative NS. Expert help needed.

2010-03-16 Thread Gary Wallis
Sam Wilson wrote: In article mailman.814.1268703621.21153.bind-us...@lists.isc.org, Gary Wallis wgg1...@gmail.com wrote: Let's say I have this setup : BIND 9.4 named.conf includes a master.zones file with the following: ... zone ns1.yourdomain.com { type master

Re: DNSSEC and child zones on same authoritative NS. Expert help needed.

2010-03-16 Thread Gary Wallis
Alan Clegg wrote: Gary Wallis wrote: [other stuff snipped out] Regarding my main question: How to delegate signing authority from parent yourdomain.com to child ns1.yourdomain.com. Insert the DS records from the child into the parent and re-sign the parent. I still have to setup a DNSSEC

Re: threading and linux (2.6.

2010-03-16 Thread Gary Wallis
Jack Tavares wrote: Hello - What is the default build on linux (2.6) with regard to threads. If I don't explicitly enable or disable threads, does named run threaded or unthreaded? Threaded. Thanks -- jack

Re: dnssec signing tools

2010-03-20 Thread Gary Wallis
groups wrote: I should have been more specific.. What dnssec tools do the folks at ISC recommend.. I am scheduled for a 5 day class in Arlington, VA in May 2010 Thx Charles Greetings list.. I have recently assumed responsibility and did a complete rebuild of a Master DNS server running

Re: Forwarded PTR records not working properly

2010-04-02 Thread Gary Wallis
Alexander Fortin wrote: Hi folks. I'm having problems trying to set up a DNS forwarding zone for PTRs records. The weird thing is that normal DNS zones are working fine, but using same configurations for the correspondent *.in.addr.arpa zone doesn't work. Very strange to me seems that

Re: Forwarded PTR records not working properly

2010-04-02 Thread Gary Wallis
Hope this is helpful: Your d.c.b.a.in-addr.arpa zone may not have the correct data in it. Since dig shows no answer for that specific query. If you have not already learn how to use: named-checkconf named-checkzone Check your named.conf and all files therein included, then check again.

Re: Delegation and recursion

2010-05-09 Thread Gary Wallis
Angela Perez wrote: Hi, I'm just writing to confirm that I have the correct understanding of the relationship between delegation and recursion. A bit of background: I'm responsible for an Internet-facing server that has the following requirements. It should support recursion for known (DMZ)

Re: Multi-mastering with dynamic updates

2010-05-17 Thread Gary Wallis
Phil Mayers wrote: On 17/05/10 16:02, arcan...@free.fr wrote: Hi all, Like a lot of people over the web, I am looking for a clean multi-master (multi-primary) solution that allow dynamic updates. Interesting. What's the use-case for this? From my personal experience the most common use of

Re: Web forwarding in BIND

2010-05-20 Thread Gary Wallis
Hoover Chan wrote: I'm new to this list but have been having trouble looking for information on this topic. A pointer please to information on how to use BIND to translate a domain name to a target URL. For example, www.domain - http://www.someother.domain/folder1/folder2/index.html. Thanks

Many reports of this type of problem...

2010-06-23 Thread Gary Wallis
DNS people, CentOS 5 BIND rpm (9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-4.P1.el5 ) widespread problem reports for a significant number of domains on amazonaws.com. +trace fails but direct dig returns valid data, please look through the output below since it is shorter than trying to summarize: [r...@node1vm

Re: Zone transfer issue when using views

2010-08-31 Thread Gary Wallis
--[ UxBoD ]-- wrote: Hi, Am having a issue when transferring a zone from a Win2K8 server and receiving the error: failed while receiving responses: unexpected error Now I know why it is happening, just not how to cure it. We have our primary business zones which are within a view and

Re: IPAM advantages (was Re: MySQL BIND SDB)

2010-11-17 Thread Gary Wallis
Chris Buxton wrote: On Nov 16, 2010, at 12:44 PM, Gary Wallis wrote: IPAM is an Infloblox proprietary system that Cricket Liu is involved with. No. IPAM = IP Address Management. It is not a product, but rather a product category. I believe the term was coined by Lucent, or whoever owned QIP

Re: DIG Source IP

2010-12-09 Thread Gary Wallis
John Williams wrote: If I have a Linux host with multiple IP's, is there a way to utilize the DIG command such that the query appears like it's coming from different IP addresses? So If I have 10 virtual IP's, is there a way to control the source IP of the query? I've referenced the DIG

Re: DIG Source IP

2010-12-09 Thread Gary Wallis
Gary Wallis wrote: John Williams wrote: If I have a Linux host with multiple IP's, is there a way to utilize the DIG command such that the query appears like it's coming from different IP addresses? So If I have 10 virtual IP's, is there a way to control the source IP of the query? I've

Re: transfer with views

2011-01-01 Thread Gary Wallis
Alan Clegg wrote: On 1/1/2011 9:15 AM, Gary Wallis wrote: You will need to setup one virtual IP for each extra view. Not since very versions of BIND that are long-since EOL'd. The FAQ goes into how to use TSIG keys to deal with picking the right one. This is what no one here addresses

Re: transfer with views

2011-01-01 Thread Gary Wallis
Alan Clegg wrote: ... Given choices, I think I'm in agreement with you: I'd chose to not do views. Based on the posts here, the OP is going to do views. The best thing to do is provide the best method of replicating those views to the machines that are providing slave services without using

Re: Confused about /24 in-addr.arpa NS delegation debug problem

2011-01-07 Thread Gary Wallis
Thanks guys for all the feedback. Yes seems like RIPE is involved, and The Planet (TP) refuses to fix delegation or say they can't 'cause of RIPE, but sounds funny to me, and I know that many TP tech support staffers know next to nil about DNS. Have fun with DNS in 2011. Cheers! Gary

Re: Forward using CNAME record

2011-01-25 Thread Gary Wallis
Henry Hartley wrote: My apologies if this gets to the list twice. I tried to post it through the web interface but it seems to have been dropped by whatever screening gets applied. I'm not sure if I've misunderstood the use of CNAME or if I've simply done something wrong. I have two

Re: Forward using CNAME record

2011-01-25 Thread Gary Wallis
Gary Wallis wrote: Henry Hartley wrote: ... In the second case, which is NOT working, I have a similar CNAME record but instead of web.me.com, it's on tumblr.com. So, I have this (this is the actual domain): www.ioanamorosan.com. CNAME ioanamorosan.tumblr.com. If you go directly

Re: Forward using CNAME record

2011-01-26 Thread Gary Wallis
p...@mail.nsbeta.info wrote: Gary Wallis writes: Do not confuse your forwarding with HTTP rewriting. One is just about DNS records (CNAME, A or otherwise.) The other happens on the server side (see Apache rewrite engine docs.) This is nothing about rewrite, but webserver's virtual host

Re: multi-master with mysql backend

2011-02-08 Thread Gary Wallis
fddi wrote: thank you for hte thread you pointed me. Actaully I do not have performance issue, but I just need DNS multi-master. I could succesfully apply mysql-bind patches. I have only one zone with few hosts. thank you very much Riccardo On 2/8/11 3:30 PM, Terry. wrote: 2011/2/8

check-names via command line

2012-07-10 Thread Gary Wallis
Is there a way to check names via the command line (like with a named-checkzone type tool.) I need to validate zone info BEFORE trying to load, log frag: 10-Jul-2012 11:36:02.199 general: zone growXeg.com/IN/external: loading master file master/external/g/growXeg.com: bad name (check-names)

Re: check-names via command line

2012-07-10 Thread Gary Wallis
On 7/10/2012 13:08, Chris Thompson wrote: On Jul 10 2012, I wrote: On Jul 10 2012, Gary Wallis wrote: Is there a way to check names via the command line (like with a named-checkzone type tool.) [...] Check out the -k option of named-checkzone. It defaults to warn anyway, but you may want

Re: check-names via command line

2012-07-10 Thread Gary Wallis
On 7/10/2012 17:04, Evan Hunt wrote: Well, I have to take that back. As far as I can see the -k option of named-checkzone has no effect at all, despite the man page, at least with BIND 9.8.3-P1. Thank you. Maybe this will be fixed? It would be great to have named-checkzone be an authoritative

What happens when one out of three NSs are down?

2013-06-11 Thread Gary Wallis
to a hot spare in some other datacenter? In this case would the running NSs have to have the changed NS A record also match? Any comments and best practice solution info very welcome. Thank you, Gary Wallis ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman

Public facing authoritative NS all masters

2014-07-12 Thread Gary Wallis
DNS experts, What are the drawbacks, if any, of running only master name servers for the set of authoritative NSs? For example given: [root@rc37 unxsVZ]# dig latimes.com NS +short dns1.tribune.com. dns2.tribune.com. dns4.tribune.com. dns3.tribune.com. Where all 4 dnsN servers are in fact

Public facing authoritative NS all masters

2014-07-13 Thread Gary Wallis
Hello, What are the drawbacks, if any, of running only master name servers for the set of authoritative NSs? For example given: [root@rc37 unxsVZ]# dig latimes.com NS +short dns1.tribune.com. dns2.tribune.com. dns4.tribune.com. dns3.tribune.com. Where all 4 dnsN servers are in fact masters

Re: Public facing authoritative NS all masters

2014-07-14 Thread Gary Wallis
Thank you Tony and Joseph, I think you have explained this well, and most importantly, exposed the underlying issues. Best regards, Gary On 7/14/2014 06:27, Tony Finch wrote: Gary Wallis wgg1...@gmail.com wrote: What are the drawbacks, if any, of running only master name servers

Re: Best practices for ipv6

2015-12-17 Thread Gary Wallis
Hi, This pdf is a very good intro with very valid best practices: http://www.enog.org/presentations/enog-6/196-FerencCsorba-IPv6-Fundm-BestPracts.pdf Cheers! Gary Wallis Unixservice, LLC. On 12/16/2015 00:09, John W. Blue wrote: I have found https://ipv6.he.net to be helpful. John Sent

Re: BIND 9 API & GUI

2016-07-28 Thread Gary Wallis
On 7/28/2016 14:00, Chris Buxton wrote: Kirk, Have a look at the commercial offerings. All of them offer a GUI and an API for managing BIND servers, including managing zones and records. Some of them are limited to managing their own appliances. Some of them do offer the ability to overlay