DMARC test

2019-07-14 Thread Paul Kosinski via bind-users
Testing how lists.isc.org handles DMARC "Quarantine" (and "Reject") policy. The enterpr...@mozilla.org mailing list forwards such email in a way that some recipients choke on it (i.e., can't validate it). ___ Please visit

Re: search and ndots support in bind utilities

2019-09-30 Thread Paul Kosinski via bind-users
Following https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/sac-064-en.pdf, it sounds like modest groups of Internet users (such as informal clubs) that don't have their own official domain (like "iment.com") are out of luck if they would like to have local subdomains -- unless they want to use the

Re: Zoneformat

2019-10-28 Thread Paul Kosinski via bind-users
"... long ago adapted to using full numbers, including area codes, for pretty much *all* phone dialing ..." Except that that proved to be so onerous that people often use "speed dialing" for commonly dialed numbers. (Not to mention the fact that people usually address their friends and coworkers

Peculiar DNS queries

2019-12-22 Thread Paul Kosinski via bind-users
Every so often, we get a run of peculiar queries to our (BIND / named) DNS server. Note the apparently random mix of lower case and upper case letters in the domain names. Does anybody have any idea why somebody would be doing this? (It's legal, I guess, but quite non-standard.) Dec 22 12:05:43

Re: Problem to transfer reverse zone DNS on secondary DNS servers

2019-12-27 Thread Paul Kosinski via bind-users
I was pleased that I was able to get our two (successive) ISPs to set up reverse DNS for our small number of IP addresses, and each twice to change them when they moved us to moved us to new IP ranges (due to the IPv4 crunch). It never even occurred to me that it might be possible to have them

Re: DoH plugin for BIND

2020-05-02 Thread Paul Kosinski via bind-users
ernet connection" > > > Even if your ISP allows it, chances are that other mail servers will reject > > it > > that's a completl different story > > > On 5/2/20 3:30 PM, Paul Kosinski via bind-users wrote: > >> How many ISPs allow traffi

Re: DoH plugin for BIND

2020-05-02 Thread Paul Kosinski via bind-users
How many ISPs allow traffic on port 25? My impression is that even many (non-enterprise) business customers can't use port 25. On Sat, 2 May 2020 09:28:54 +0200 Reindl Harald wrote: > Am 02.05.20 um 09:00 schrieb Michael De Roover: > > That's actually my biggest concern with DoH, ISP blocking.

Re: How can I launch a private Internet DNS server?

2020-10-16 Thread Paul Kosinski via bind-users
With regard to using chroot, hasn't named/BIND long had the "-u" (user) and "-t" (directory) options to accomplish the same thing more easily? On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 12:47:35 -0500 Chuck Aurora wrote: > /me catching up on earlier parts of this thread, > > On 2020-10-15 11:42, alcol alcol wrote:

Re: Deconstructing the Great Firewall of China

2020-06-23 Thread Paul Kosinski via bind-users
ski via bind-users wrote: > > A very interesting article on how China uses DNS (among other things) > > to "control" Internet usage. > > > > https://blog.thousandeyes.com/deconstructing-great-firewall-china/ > > > The term "DNSSEC" appears ju

Deconstructing the Great Firewall of China

2020-06-05 Thread Paul Kosinski via bind-users
A very interesting article on how China uses DNS (among other things) to "control" Internet usage. https://blog.thousandeyes.com/deconstructing-great-firewall-china/ ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from

Re: Two copies of recent posts

2020-11-25 Thread Paul Kosinski via bind-users
Yes indeed: I sent the last email (and this one) to bind-users and CC-ed to you. That explains why there are two different ESMTP IDs. The question is, have you, like I have, received two copies of any emails (from lists.isc.org) where there *identical* ESMTP IDs in their associated sequences

Re: Two copies of recent posts

2020-11-24 Thread Paul Kosinski via bind-users
t 21:56 -0500, Paul Kosinski via bind-users wrote: > > I've been getting two identical copies of recent posts to this list... > > Me too, but it's because of people hitting reply-all thinking that they > are replying to the list and the poster. People really need to verify > who

Two copies of recent posts

2020-11-22 Thread Paul Kosinski via bind-users
I've been getting two identical copies of recent posts to this list (such as this item). This only started happening in the past 24 hours or so. Is anyone else seeing this? Upon examination of the headers of the two copies, it looks like ISC's list-servers are doing the duplication. (The first

Re: Need Help with BIND9

2021-06-11 Thread Paul Kosinski via bind-users
The site mxtoolbox.com has a suite of tools to check your DNS, email and Web servers from the outside. They're easy to use and might turn up something. On Fri, 11 Jun 2021 09:10:32 -0700 techli...@phpcoderusa.com wrote: > Hi, > > The two domains I am working with on my SOHO home server are 1)

Re: Limit actions on control channel?

2021-06-18 Thread Paul Kosinski via bind-users
It ought to be possible to write a front-end to listen on the standard control channel and only forward (properly-keyed) 'status' requests to the "real" port that BIND listens to. >From looking at the RNDC exchange via Wireshark however, you'd have to adapt >some of BIND's code that does the

Re: Syslog with BIND on CentOS

2021-05-20 Thread Paul Kosinski via bind-users
If you can have BIND log directly to a file, couldn't you use a FIFO (prwxrwxrwx) or Unix domain socket (srwxrwxrwx) and avoid the disk I/O by sending the log data directly to the forwarder? (E.g., Pulse Audio listens on a socket for audio data from an application, and sends it in real-time to

Re: where are the testing docs ?

2021-05-10 Thread Paul Kosinski via bind-users
Actually, it's in keeping with the *original* definition of hacking! On Sun, 9 May 2021 23:55:13 -0600 @lbutlr wrote: > On 06 May 2021, at 09:57, Dennis Clarke via bind-users > wrote: > > I do NOT trust a build result where I had to go hacking into all the > > Makefiles just to get it to

Re: No more support for windows

2021-06-05 Thread Paul Kosinski via bind-users
On Fri, 4 Jun 2021 13:58:40 -0700 Gregory Sloop wrote: > This feels a lot like responding to trolls, but I'll instead assume that > you're asking (or making a point) in good faith. > > So, we'll stipulate that - you're actually interested in truth and knowledge. > > So, it's easily compiled

Re: Contents of bind-users digest...

2021-07-06 Thread Paul Kosinski via bind-users
On Tue, 6 Jul 2021 12:44:15 + "MURTARI, JOHN" wrote: > Folks, let me add my desire for a quick download dig supporting DoH. It > could really help with some testing, some ready stuff for Ubuntu 18/20, > Redhat/CentOS, could make a lot of people happy. Maybe the libs included > and we

Re: Using RNDC to control remote access to my BIND server

2021-04-23 Thread Paul Kosinski via bind-users
A couple of years ago, I tried using nsupdate to modify a dynamic (DHCP) IP address for my very simple domain. It worked, except that it totally messed up the organization of the zone file. Since the file only has 44 active lines (which are organized logically), I maintain it by hand. After

Re: Bind 9.11 serving up false answers for a single domain.

2021-02-09 Thread Paul Kosinski via bind-users
Do you know about mxtoolbox.com? It (and other similar sites) does a good job of diagnosing DNS-related problems. I use it now and then to check out my own sites, as it gives a "second opinion". In particular its "DNS Lookup' function reported the following for "internet-dns1.state.ma.us"

Re: Bind 9.11 serving up false answers for a single domain.

2021-02-10 Thread Paul Kosinski via bind-users
I rather prefer tshark to tcpdump: it's essentially the command line version of wireshark, and thus has wireshark's protocol "dissecting" abilities. On Wed, 10 Feb 2021 22:20:08 + "John W. Blue via bind-users" wrote: > Three words: tcpdump and wireshark > > It is like peanut and jelly

Re: BIND 9.16.13 and Mac OS X 10.13.6 - problems with ./configure

2021-03-29 Thread Paul Kosinski via bind-users
Well said! On Mon, 29 Mar 2021 16:11:54 +0100 Tony Finch wrote: > alcol alcol wrote: > > > seriously? is like linux/unix FAQ  > > Please, if you can't be helpful, don't reply at all. We all have to learn > somehow, and the best way to show your knowledge is to share it generously. > >

Re: Preventing a particular type of nameserver abuse

2021-04-14 Thread Paul Kosinski via bind-users
Interesting, although we host different domains, in and from different geographic areas, we got the same queries as yours on the same day, with some at about the same time (we're EDT). 13-Apr-2021 02:19:58.468 security: info: client 76.20.145.58#3074 (sl): query (cache) 'sl/ANY/IN' denied

Re: Preventing a particular type of nameserver abuse

2021-04-13 Thread Paul Kosinski via bind-users
Interesting observation. I just did lookups on 4 recent (< 24 hrs ago) 'sl/ANY/IN' queries logged by our BIND and got: 2 Comcast cable IPs (hsd1.tx.comcast.net and hsd1.ma.comcast.net) 1 OVH Hosting IP (Montreal) 1 Afranet IP (Tehran!) The whois info for the OVH IP contains the line:

Re: Preventing a particular type of nameserver abuse

2021-04-12 Thread Paul Kosinski via bind-users
We also get *lots* of suspicious queries of the same kind, from various privileged and unprivileged ports, which I'm pretty sure are DDoS attempts. For example: 12-Apr-2021 23:44:17.767 security: info: client 107.213.131.17#80 (sl): query (cache) 'sl/ANY/IN' denied 12-Apr-2021 23:44:19.477

Re: Bind 9.11 serving up false answers for a single domain.

2021-02-12 Thread Paul Kosinski via bind-users
I don't think tcpdump was installed by default with various versions of Debian that I set up in the last few years for networking. I didn't bother to install it, as it's output is different enough (old fashioned?) from the sharks to be annoying. It *was* installed with OpenSuSE 15.2 though.

Re: lists.isc.org and DMARC

2021-02-16 Thread Paul Kosinski via bind-users
Our DMARC Policy has been "p=quarantine" since 30 Jun 2019, so I guess it won't affect us. (It was "p=none" before that -- we only started using DKIM in Apr 2017.) On Tue, 16 Feb 2021 20:54:30 + (UTC) Dan Mahoney wrote: > Greetings bind-users netizens. > > Dan Mahoney, ISC SysAdmin

Re: Scripting dnssec-verify - processing command output

2021-02-06 Thread Paul Kosinski via bind-users
It sounds to me like dnssec-verify is sending the output in question to STDERR instead of STDOUT. On Sat, 06 Feb 2021 19:02:28 + Matthew Richardson wrote: > I have been using Perl to do a reasonable amount of scripting, running bind > utilities and processing the results into variables.

Re: Problems with interfaces going down

2021-02-14 Thread Paul Kosinski via bind-users
Would it be possible to use a virtual interface from within bind/named that gets mapped by some privileged facility to a hardware interface? (This is the sort of thing that VMs have to do all the time.) For example, could a brctl bridge help? Or maybe CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE would allow the

Re: Windows 9.16.25 fails to start (1067 Terminated unexpectedly)

2022-02-17 Thread Paul Kosinski via bind-users
On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 15:26:35 +0100 Ondřej Surý wrote: ... > This is part of the problem - debugging on Windows is extremely painful and > requires expertise with extremely high learning curve. > > -- > Ondřej Surý — ISC (He/Him) I wonder if difficult debugging is deliberate -- it would

Re: consolidating in-addr.arpa data

2023-09-16 Thread Paul Kosinski via bind-users
On Sat, 16 Sep 2023 10:22:26 +0100 (BST) "G.W. Haywood via bind-users" wrote: > Hi there, > ... >I'd be surprised if the OP couldn't manage with 2^20 IPs in a segment - > but then I guess he does work in the .gov domain. ^^^ The OP's contact

DNSSEC adoption

2022-08-01 Thread Paul Kosinski via bind-users
There has been lots of discussion recently about DNSSEC issues, including whether it's desirable to sign internal zones. Independent of this most recent issue, a couple of weeks ago I did an informal survey, using DNSVIZ, of various TLDs. I found the following rather surprising results:

Re: Stopping ddos

2022-08-03 Thread Paul Kosinski via bind-users
On Wed, 3 Aug 2022 13:47:41 +0200 Victor Johansson via bind-users wrote: > Hey, > > I just want to add that there is a better way to do this in iptables > with hashlimit. The normal rate limit in iptables is too crude. > > Below is an example from the rate-limit-chain, to which you simply

Re: ,Re: caching does not seem to be working for internal view

2022-08-04 Thread Paul Kosinski via bind-users
On Wed, 3 Aug 2022 15:10:39 -0400 Timothe Litt wrote: > Hmm.  Your resolv.conf says that it's written by NetworkManager. > > What I suggested should have stopped it from updating resolv.conf. > > See >

Re: Controlling which interface named uses

2023-06-11 Thread Paul Kosinski via bind-users
On Sat, 10 Jun 2023 19:24:03 +0200 Ondřej Surý wrote: > You are over-complicating things. If unconfigured, named binds the outgoing > UDP to 0.0.0.0 (::0), which means the chosen IP address is picked by the > kernel. You need to configure priorities on your interfaces in the kernel - > ip