Adding DS record to parent

2012-02-24 Thread WBrown
Does anyone know how to register a DS record for domains registered through Network Solutions? I submitted a query through their website and got this response below. I find the copyright on the canned response an amusing touch. I called the number shown, and fought my way though a tangle of p

Re: Adding DS record to parent

2012-02-24 Thread WBrown
Bill Owens wrote on 02/24/2012 11:02:50 AM: > I haven't heard of NS supporting DNSSEC, and there haven't been any > good resources to find a registrar who *does*, but this popped up recently: > > http://www.icann.org/en/topics/dnssec/deploy-en.htm > > . . . and NS isn't on that list. FWIW, Dy

RE: Configuring a domain slave to look up subdomain hosts

2012-02-28 Thread WBrown
Why not set up the zone with its own forward statement like this: zone "subdomain.example.com" { type forward; forwarders { 10.172.2.50; 10.172.2.51; }; forward only; }; -- bind-users-bounces+wbrown=e1b@lists.isc.org wrote on 02/28/2012 01:04:46 PM: >

RE: Configuring a domain slave to look up subdomain hosts

2012-02-28 Thread WBrown
Perhaps this article from the ISC knowledge base will help: https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-00302/47/I-want-to-forward-all-DNS-queries-from-my-caching-nameserver-to-another-server-but-configure-exceptions-for-some-domains-how.html Confidentiality Notice: This electronic message and any attachme

Re: dig -t txt output variation

2012-03-09 Thread WBrown
sun-guru wrote on 03/09/2012 01:45:33 PM: > Is this a BIND bug? Check ARM for RRSet Ordering. Confidentiality Notice: This electronic message and any attachments may contain confidential or privileged information, and is intended only for the individual or entity identified above as the

Re: dig -t txt output variation

2012-03-09 Thread WBrown
Alan wrote on 03/09/2012 02:38:25 PM: > Don't base anything on RRset ordering. > > Be sure that the application is able to handle the "random" order -- you > never know who owns the intermediate caching servers, so you will never > know the order even if you "fix" it on the authoritative. That p

Re: external view recursion issue

2012-03-16 Thread WBrown
Who will be using this in-house DNS server? Your local users? If yes, then you will need to enable recursion so they can look up outside resources (google.com, etc.) If this server will strictly be an authoritative server for your domain, then it won't need recursion but queries that return a

Re: external view recursion issue

2012-03-16 Thread WBrown
Put record.ourdomain.com as a CNAME in both your internal and external views. Internal user will query internal view and get CNAME record to record.client.otherdomain.com. Your recursive name server will look up record.client.otherdomain.com and get the CNAME record to otherhost.otherdomain.c

Re: How to reset the serial number?

2012-03-27 Thread WBrown
-- William Brown Messaging and Core Hosted Application Technical Teams Technology Services, WNYRIC, Erie 1 BOCES (716) 821-7285 Chuck Swiger wrote on 03/26/2012 02:35:24 PM: > Shut down the slave server(s). > Use scp or rsync to copy over the zone file, one with a corrected serial #. > Restar

Re: generate a set of request DNSsec

2012-04-18 Thread WBrown
William wrote on 04/18/2012 05:45:21 AM: > I'm faced with a big problem, How can i generate a log file for my test? > it's a big problem for me, i'm working on Bind 9.8.1-P1 > and i'm using dnsperf to inject requests on my servers. > > Did you have an idea? thank you for your help. What do you w

Question about KSK

2012-04-27 Thread WBrown
We are authoritative for a few dozen small zones. Is it possible to use the same KSK for all of them? I can see where if it gets compromised we would need to resign all zones using the KSK at once. How much effort would I be saving sharing the KSK? I'm sure there are plenty of other good rea

Re: Question about KSK

2012-04-27 Thread WBrown
Jan-Piet wrote on 04/27/2012 10:22:39 AM: > > When the shared KSK needed to be rolled over, you would have to > > process DS records in the parents of your few dozen zones all at the > > same time. > > *If* you want to roll the KSK, a.k.a. "when did you last roll your SSH > keys?" :-) Correct.

Re: Hi;

2012-05-10 Thread WBrown
William Thierry wrote on 05/10/2012 08:02:57 AM: > i'm trying to have a TTL of a zone just by typing a command, but i > can't seen which command line i can used to have the solution. > > Can someone have an idea? is it possible to found that? > > PS: The zone file is not created by me. For exam

Re: DNSSEC

2012-05-10 Thread WBrown
Warren wrote on 05/10/2012 11:50:30 AM: > Nope -- Comcast does a large amount of checking before turning off > validation for a failing domain. > This is (IMO) more secure than the alternative, which is to simply > leave it failing, and have users move to a non-validatiing resolver instead? D

Re: random-device purpose in DNSSEC

2012-05-11 Thread WBrown
Warren wrote on 05/10/2012 04:14:01 PM: > Multiple options: > 1: install haveged (http://www.irisa.fr/caps/projects/hipsor/) -- > this will provide you with much randomness [0]. > 2: buy a USB entropy widget (for example: http://www.entropykey.co.uk/) > 3: See if there is a driver for your TPM --

Re: DNSSEC

2012-05-11 Thread WBrown
Jan-Piet wrote on 05/11/2012 02:17:53 AM: > Indeed, which brings on the question why BIND (still) doesn't have the > a "negative trust anchor" feature. So how do we implement one? Create a separate caching server with DNSSEC validation turned off and forward all queries for the broken domain to

Re: Secondary Master

2012-05-11 Thread WBrown
John wrote on 05/11/2012 11:05:58 AM: > 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 t

Re: limiting number of requests of a single hosts

2012-06-15 Thread WBrown
bind-users-bounces+wbrown=e1b@lists.isc.org wrote on 06/15/2012 04:25:16 AM: > We have a problem with one of our firewalls caused by DNS peaks. > Once or twice a day a DNS burst (20K requests/15sec) kills all > connections on the firewall. > The firewall is due for replacemen

Re: Moving DNS out of non-cooperative provider

2012-06-18 Thread WBrown
Did you update your whois information to point to the name servers at NEWprovider.net? After this change is made and any cached data expires, the world will query them (NEWProvider), with the exception of anyone that uses name servers at OLDprovider.net who still thinks they are authoritative f

Re: prevent DNS attack

2012-06-27 Thread WBrown
pa...@riseup.net wrote on 06/27/2012 05:20:32 AM: > DNS is very easy to be attacked. Yes it is > My named service got 1G or more traffic of attack some time. > How can we take some steps to prevent them? http://www.google.com/search?q=prevent+DNS+atttack Confidentiality Notice: This electro

Re: bind dies with assertion failure

2012-07-03 Thread WBrown
Oscar Ricardo Silva wrote on 07/02/2012 06:40:51 PM: > The reason I'm running is that we're currently running the stock version > of BIND available with RHEL6. It's their policy to backport patches and > if there's a patch available then they may apply it faster rather than > deploying a new

Re: RPM [was: Re: bind dies with assertion failure]

2012-07-03 Thread WBrown
Jan-Piet wrote on 07/03/2012 10:41:20 AM: > Building BIND is easy; turning it into an installable RPM not so. > I highly recommend fpm [1] which makes building an RPM trivial. :) Any advice or tricks for making a DEB for Ubuntu? So far my plan was to copy the source directory to each server and

Re: Basic scope question

2012-07-10 Thread WBrown
Gary wrote on 07/10/2012 11:27:24 AM: > If I have domain-name-servers configured globally and a different > set configured on a subnet DHCP pool, which takes precedence for the > client? My understanding is the more specific, or the subnet DHCP > pool, but could someone please confirm? Thanks

Re: Journal File Question

2012-07-25 Thread WBrown
Chris wrote on 07/25/2012 09:04:49 AM: > Is it possible to restore a zone file from its associated journal file? No. The journal file only records updates to the zone. At best you would only recover the changes since last commit to the zone file. > The docs seem to indicate that a restart of

Re: Journal File Question

2012-07-25 Thread WBrown
Chris Buxton wrote on 07/25/2012 12:07:22 PM: > > It doesn't sync the files to make two equal copies. It applies all of the > > outstanding transactions in the journal file to the zone file and then > > empties the journal. > > I don't believe that is entirely correct. The journal file needs

Re: Can't receive emails from another machine

2012-07-31 Thread WBrown
Stayvoid wrote on 07/30/2012 08:22:30 PM: > I'm using Postfix. > I can send / receive emails from / to localhost via telnet. [1] > But I can't receive emails from another machine. > > I guess that there are three variants: > 1. Postfix doesn't work properly; > 2. Bind doesn't work properly; > 3.

Re: SRV query with no domain?

2012-08-15 Thread WBrown
e search domain on my system (domain changed to example.org): wbrown@wbrown-D630:~$ host -t srv _sip._tcp _sip._tcp.example.org has SRV record 0 0 5060 tandberg-vcse.example.org. wbrown@wbrown-D630:~$ host -t srv _sip._tcp.example.org _sip._tcp.example.org has SRV record 0 0 5060 tandberg-vcse.ex

Re: 2 dns records for same server

2012-08-20 Thread WBrown
Dwayne wrote on 08/19/2012 07:37:39 PM: > My hosts get the ip's of all 3 dns > servers when they recieve dhcp information. I think this is the issue. The internal clients should only point to the internal DNS server. They should never be querying the DNS that returns the public IP addresses

RE: 2 dns records for same server

2012-08-20 Thread WBrown
"Lightner, Jeff" wrote on 08/20/2012 08:56:56 AM: > That is to say don't put the external servers in /etc/resolv.conf on > your clients - only put the internal one there. (Or the Windows > equivalent setup should only see your internal DNS server.) Or push via DHCP as in this case. > I would

Re: What can cause excessive amount of _dns-sd queries?

2012-08-23 Thread WBrown
Elvind wrote on 08/23/2012 09:18:06 AM: > Yeah, now I'm just wondering which OS / application / malware / whatever > could be responsible for this :) Someone trying to use ZeroCOnf: http://zeroconf.org I believe Macs come configured to use it by default, Linux and Windows can be configured to

Re: Typical Bind slave failure scenario - What happens and when?

2012-08-28 Thread WBrown
Russell Jones wrote on 08/27/2012 06:39:31 PM: > Is there any documentation outlining what will actually occur, and > when, with a slave server when it cannot contact a zone's master for updates? The authoritative documentation is the Bind Administrators Reference Manual (ARM). Another excel

Re: ho to filter hundeds of domains ?

2012-08-30 Thread WBrown
Russell Jones wrote on 08/30/2012 09:39:17 AM: > Normal web filtering software that auto updates is a better > approach. Using Bind with a manual list of domains to try to achieve > this is like trying to kill an ant hill 1 ant at a time There are several sources of RPZ data such as Spamhaus an

Re: ho to filter hundeds of domains ?

2012-08-30 Thread WBrown
Russell Jones wrote on 08/30/2012 10:28:07 AM: > Oh I know, I use spamhaus myself for spam filtering - catches a > ridiculous amount of spam. It is my understanding though the OP wants to > filter domains for NSFW web browsing, not spam - specifically gambling > sites. Spamhaus describes it

Re: Glue from Root Servers returns wrong A record, why?

2012-09-10 Thread WBrown
ponga2...@gmail.com wrote on 09/10/2012 03:11:30 PM: > > SOA points correctly to the DNS provider (zoneedit).. there is no > mention of that 216 address anywhere in the registrar :( Is the information below correct? wbrown@wbrown-D630:~$ whois intaq.com Whois Server Version 2.0 Dom

Delegations

2012-10-31 Thread WBrown
I have a zone file for example.org that has entries for a subdomain l2.example.org like this: vpn.l2 IN A10.1.2.3 Now they want to add a subdomain below l2, ie. ad.l2.eboces.org with hosts such as dc.ad.l2.eboces.org In the zone file for example.org, I can add NS and glue recor

Re: Delegations

2012-10-31 Thread WBrown
Phil wrote on 10/31/2012 02:15:16 PM: > You terminology is a bit confusing here. "subdomain" is imprecise. Sorry, I meant it as a piece of the FQDN. > Specify what *zones* you want, and where you want the delegations, and > it should be easy to see what will work and not. > Yes, if I've unde

Re: Delegations

2012-11-01 Thread WBrown
Jan-Piet Mens wrote on 11/01/2012 07:09:14 AM: > > YPYMAYTYP > > Zero results from my favorite search engine -- congratulations. ;-) Yeah, and bing didn't find it either! :) Confidentiality Notice: This electronic message and any attachments may contain confidential or privileged informat

Re: Performance tuning

2012-11-27 Thread WBrown
"Adamiec, Lawrence" wrote on 11/26/2012 01:12:48 PM: > To the best of my knowledge, there are no problems with our DNS. We > only host 25 domains. > > The report must also address these two specific questions: > > 1. Why does www.kentlaw.iit.edu load quicker than kentlaw.iit.edu in > any bro

Re: OT - Dns test Q/A

2012-12-05 Thread WBrown
I don't have any source of a a DNS exam, but since you seem to be expecting a limited set of skills, how about a few questions of the sort "What is an A record?" "What is an MX record?" "What does the SOA record contain" "What does the serial number control" Think about what they will be work

Re: SPF records in reverse zones?

2012-12-06 Thread WBrown
Dan Mahoney wrote on 12/05/2012 06:52:43 PM: > I can't even imagine what spamfilters would think of such an address. :) To quotes some annoying TV ads here in the US: "REJECTED!" Confidentiality Notice: This electronic message and any attachments may contain confidential or privile

Re: SPF records in reverse zones?

2012-12-06 Thread WBrown
Karl Auer wrote on 12/05/2012 06:44:01 PM: > This may be a silly question, but are SPF records supposed to be > supported in reverse zones? I'm thinking of a mail server that has no > entry in the DNS. THe SPF query is looking for the sender's domain, not the sender's server, so the record woul

Re: Bind not forwarding all requests

2012-12-10 Thread WBrown
Romgo wrote on 12/10/2012 06:36:10 AM: > I had 2 old zone with forwarders configured, the forwarders was down. > One equipment was still using one of this zone, so bind wasn't able > to contact the forwarders and fall back to root zone. > > I don't really why it try the root zone but since I de

Re: Can we load balance traf[f]ic for CNAME records?

2012-12-14 Thread WBrown
Manis Rane wrote on 12/14/2012 02:12:59 PM: > That is true by default rrset-order is cyclic I believe. And even if > it replies randomly I guess we will have to NAT the traffic on > firewall for particular IPs Your original post made me believe you are running Windows CAS servers. Why not use

Re: Distribute named.conf

2013-01-03 Thread WBrown
How does Puppet compare to Ansible? http://ansible.cc/ -- William Brown Core Hosted Application Technical Team and Messaging Team Technology Services, WNYRIC, Erie 1 BOCES (716) 821-7285 Confidentiality Notice: This electronic message and any attachments may contain confidential or privi

Re: Distribute named.conf

2013-01-03 Thread WBrown
Mike wrote on 01/03/2013 02:45:29 PM: > Thanks for sharing, first I'd heard of it... I read about it on http://jpmens.net/ > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open_source_configuration_manage > ment_software It's there today. > I highly advise anyone new to configuraton management

Re: Logging

2013-01-08 Thread WBrown
Timothe Litt wrote on 01/08/2013 08:19:56 AM: > What I think would be more useful is if named actually reported the > issues to where they'd do some good. Perhaps a DNS extension "I got an > invalid message from you" - so it shows up in the log of the server (and > administrator) with the pr

Re: Define an internal zone with only a couple of A records, then forward to an external dns server

2013-01-17 Thread WBrown
Alberto wrote on 01/17/2013 10:09:00 AM: > - I want to define in my dns server a zone "external_partner.com", > which is the domain of our partner who manages it with his dns > public server "dns.external_partner.com". > - I need to define into this zone a couple of servers > ("vpn_host_1.extern

Re: Slaving from DNS masters behind LVS

2013-02-13 Thread WBrown
Nick wrote on 02/12/2013 10:00:27 PM: > We have a pair of DNS servers running BIND behind a direct routing LVS > director pair running keepalived. Let's call these two DNS servers A > and B, and the VIP V. Several years ago I was lucky enough to take the ISC class on bind. One of my questions g

Re: Export / Import all zone data

2013-02-14 Thread WBrown
Daniel wrote on 02/14/2013 02:52:55 PM: > Just make the new server a slave of the old one, let it do zone transfers of > all of the old zones, then change the config on the new one from slave to > master. I wonder if that wasn't done once before which is why the zone files don't appear to be "

Re: Cannot create A record issue

2013-02-20 Thread WBrown
Jsilliman wrote on 02/20/2013 01:44:20 PM: > No, I think it's only loaded once, but port 53 is listening on Try "ps aux |grep named" to prove it. Confidentiality Notice: This electronic message and any attachments may contain confidential or privileged information, and is intended only for t

Re: BIND master , Windows 2008 stub zone not transferring

2013-02-21 Thread WBrown
> From: Sowmya Manjanatha > Well, I have a stub zone on Windows 2008 server set-up to use two > different BIND server as its list of IPs to use as masters. In the > DNS manager on Windows, you can always right click on the zone and > select "Transfer zone from Master". With Wireshark on Wind

Re: disabling lame server logging

2013-02-26 Thread WBrown
Robert wrote on 02/26/2013 02:23:44 PM: > > There is a logging category for lame-servers. It's in the ARM. > > So far 2 reads and I am not getting out of it what to do for selective > logging based on return codes. I am going to let it stay for now as I > move on to other parts of this project

BIND roadmap

2013-02-27 Thread WBrown
Congrats to ISC and everyone that has worked on BIND 10! I am building new name servers and redesigning our infrastructure with an eye towards streamlining, improving security and implementing DNSSEC. I had been testing a few things with BIND 9.9.x. Now that BIND 10 is released, I am wonderin

Re: BIND roadmap

2013-02-28 Thread WBrown
Shane Kerr wrote on 02/28/2013 05:37:26 AM: > On Thursday, 2013-02-28 11:19:01 +1100, > Mark Andrews wrote: > > > > ISC has no specific plans to end BIND 9 development. As Mark correctly > says: Thanks for the clarification. > > BIND 10 is still a way off being a replacement for BIND 9. >

Re: BIND roadmap

2013-02-28 Thread WBrown
Doug wrote on 02/28/2013 12:31:21 PM: > You probably want to have some discussions with OS vendors that embed > BIND to familiarize yourself with how many people are using ESV versions > from that channel. Or even older versions. FWIW, Ubuntu 8.04LTS uses bind 9.4.2. They backport critical f

Re: Suspecious DNS traffic

2013-03-25 Thread WBrown
babu dheen wrote on 03/25/2013 12:21:30 PM: > Still not convinced because if i need to allow >1024 port from our > DNS server to external world(internet).. where is the security? Total security requires total isolation. It is a matter of accepting some risks to perform the needed task. > I

Re: Simple question about zone and CNAME

2013-04-05 Thread WBrown
> >Incidentally, we have just been asked for an A record for cam.ac.uk to > >duplicate www.cam.ac.uk because, and I quote, "all the publicity material > >sent out by the nominator [for an award for the web site] gave the URL > >as http://cam.ac.uk/ and this has been retweeted around". > > Yes, sa

Re: Simple question about zone and CNAME

2013-04-08 Thread WBrown
Warren Kumari wrote on 04/05/2013 06:48:08 PM: > > And then there's theses folks: > > > > http://no-www.org/ > > > > Oh wow! > > Gee, thanks for that? And it's always fun when you tell someone to go to a URL that doesn't include the W's and they want to type them in anyways, ie. chat.exam

Re: Some Server not Resolving certain address

2013-04-08 Thread WBrown
> From: "Arie L. Putra" > Some of my server reported SERVFAIL, > > i try some reference on http://www.whatsmydns.net/ and some result > fail indeed, but why some of my server still resolve ok? > or my other server which resolve the domain actually "late" to see > the invalid record? In your f

Re: clients-per-query

2013-04-10 Thread WBrown
> From: Dwayne Hottinger > I keep seeing messages in my named.log file that say things > like clients-per-query increased to 30, then later it says clients- > per-query decreased to a lower number. When this happens, lookups > seem to not be working.What is an acceptable value for a large

Re: clients-per-query

2013-04-10 Thread WBrown
Dwayne Hottinger wrote on 04/10/2013 10:27:24 AM: > Sorry, My spambox grabbed your earlier reply, my apologies.My > clients are a mixed enviroment of macs,windows 7/xp, androids, etc. > At any one time I'll have over 3000 devices connected to the > network. I actually have one internal

Re: bug reports?

2013-04-26 Thread WBrown
> From: Klaus Malorny > can someone please briefly explain how to submit a bug report? I think I have > found a small bug causing a protocol error in Bind 9.7.7 (and obviously still > existent in 9.9.2) and would like the ISC people know about. "Before submitting a bug report please ensure f

Re: ISC Courses

2013-04-26 Thread WBrown
> From: > Can anyone say why Bind course offering appears so expensive? Is > something else included in the package that is not specified? > > 2-Day Introduction to DNS & BIND Training > Price: $1,795.00 I took this class about 2 years ago. IIRC, the instructor wasn't just a trainer, but a s

Re: architecture question

2013-05-08 Thread WBrown
> From: b...@bitrate.net > on a side note, i would strongly discourage you from using .local in > dns. .local is a "pseudo" tld, reserved for use with mdns. This just came up with a site I support. Thanks to this list and the DNS-OARC list, I know better. Hopefully, I can redirect them to use

Re: Mailing list "reply-to" setting

2013-05-08 Thread WBrown
> From: Steven Carr > Any chance someone can correct the settings on this mailing list to > reply to the list by default instead of the user posting the message? Why, Are the settings wrong? I have used and later run lists for years, and supported Listserv(tm) servers for others for most of th

Re: BIND Configuration

2013-05-09 Thread WBrown
I don't know how it's done, I'm not a networking guru, but here we have 2 upstream providers and somehow we route out through both, and both can route in to our /16 network. No messing with DNS changes depending on which ISP is having problems, As Clarke's third law states, "Any sufficiently

Re: architecture question

2013-05-09 Thread WBrown
> From: Jeremy P > In my experience the students who "get it" and comprehend the > concepts are able to heed the warnings of "in real life, we would do > this a little different". The students who don't "get it" are gonna > misconfigure regardless of what TLD I tell them to use in the lab. >

Re: What happens when one out of three NSs are down?

2013-06-12 Thread WBrown
> From: Chris Buxton > In practice, though, your best bet is to find out why that small > group of customers are having problems. Are they querying the > servers directly? Are they behind the routing problem and can get to the isolated name server and not the other two servers? Confidentia

Re: Secondary DNS question...

2013-06-21 Thread WBrown
> From: SH Development > No, there is definitely something going on. I shut down our > ns2.starionhost.net this morning for a while. Sure enough, emails > started bouncing from customers even though our ns1.starionhost.net > is up and on the faster machine. What exactly do the delivery fail

Re: redirecting root hints to fake internal root server

2013-08-27 Thread WBrown
From: Colin Harvey > My environment is firewalled from the real world. For queries on > zones to which I'm not master, I want to recurse to a corporate > server. nslookup some.internal.hostname.com > internal.corporate.server works fine. Setting "." to use this > internal server in the root

Re: how-to configure BIND or any DNS implementation for cloud infrastructure

2013-08-30 Thread WBrown
From: Odimegwu David > Is it possible for one to configure BIND or any DNS implementation > for the cloud? > I was forced to search for this forum because the exigences of my > situation necessitates a cloud. But yet, in a cloud: > 1. I cannot be systems administrator, even if, I don't know yet,

Re: Performance Tuning RHEL 5 and Bind

2013-10-21 Thread WBrown
> From: Alan Clegg > Fix your windows clients. You can't fix stupid. Confidentiality Notice: This electronic message and any attachments may contain confidential or privileged information, and is intended only for the individual or entity identified above as the addressee. If you are not

Re: bad owner name - Unable to add forward map from Nintendo Wii U ... REFUSED

2013-12-27 Thread WBrown
From: "David C. Rankin" > I have bind 9.9.1.P1-2 with dynamic updates from dhcp 4.2.3.2-2. > It has worked > great, but I've run into a problem with a dreaded kids-present that > I suspect is > due to the game console attempting to provide a hostname containing > spaces -- of > all things. (

Re: Enabing RRL in bind

2013-12-30 Thread WBrown
From: Gaurav Kansal > In bind 9.9.4, Reponse-Rate Limit doesn?t work until you configure bind with > ??enable-rrl? option. > > I was wondering why is it so ? > > Why not this feature is enabled by default in bind. > > I tried to find out the same in ARM but didn?t get any success. "BIND 9.

Re: Enabing RRL in bind

2013-12-30 Thread WBrown
I wrote on 12/30/2013 11:17:58 AM: > > "BIND 9.9.4 provides support for Response Rate Limiting (RRL). However it > is not enabled by default when building BIND. The reason for this is that > BIND 9.9 is an Extended Support Version of BIND and per our policy on > mangement of ESVs, we do no

Re: R: DNS with several ip adessess

2014-01-02 Thread WBrown
> > Use views > > Views +1 When were views added to BIND? We started using using multiple servers in BIND 4, and I don't recall views being available back then, but I didn't configure the servers, just maintained the zones. We're still using multiple servers for internal vs. external resolut

Re: Slowing down bind answers ?

2014-01-03 Thread WBrown
From: Mark Andrews > After that specify a final date for them to fix their machines by > after which you will send NXDOMAIN responses. Sometimes sending a > poisoned reponse is the only way to get peoples attention. > > zone "." { >type master; >file "empty"; > }; > > empty: > @ 0 IN SO

Re: DNS with several ip adessess

2014-01-03 Thread WBrown
From: "Barry S. Finkel" > One caveat with using virtual servers. Make sure that the DNS server > on which the host machine relies is NOT the DNS server that is > virtualized on that host. The host machine needs to be up before > the VMs residing on that host come up. And you should never have

Re: Slowing down bind answers ?

2014-01-06 Thread WBrown
#x27;s not as much fun as sending them someplace they weren't expecting... wbrown@WBrown:~$ dig +short disney.com 199.181.132.249 Confidentiality Notice: This electronic message and any attachments may contain confidential or privileged information, and is intended only for the individual or en

Re: Slowing down bind answers

2014-01-06 Thread WBrown
From: Bob McDonald > Of course, anycast would have solved this issue by allowing one to > add/remove a server from a properly configured environment without > affecting the clients... Unless the goal is to move all DNS services off that subnet. Our network staff would love to reclaim the /24

Re: Sites that points their A Record to localhost

2014-01-10 Thread WBrown
From: Alan Clegg > Yes, it seems that they have an A record for that label that > provides the IP address 127.0.0.1. > > You probably want to ask the owner of the zone about this, as I?m > not sure what the community can do about it. They have an MX record, so perhaps the domain is only intend

Re: Sites that points their A Record to localhost

2014-01-14 Thread WBrown
From: Tony Finch > > ;; ANSWER SECTION: > > www.p3net.net. 0 IN A 199.101.28.20 > > That IP address indicates that your ISP is lying to you. It belongs to > Skye By Nominum which is a cloud DNS service. I guess this is Skye Search > since that sounds like a rent-seeking scheme based

Logging question

2011-09-08 Thread WBrown
Running an Ubuntu server with the distro provided named 9.4.2.df. After taking ISC's Intro to DNS and BIND class, I've gotten the courage to tackle some of the logging tweaks I would like. All the lame server errors are happily being delivered to the null channel. I also figured out how to l

Re: "if exists host-name" for IPv6 DDNS?

2011-09-27 Thread WBrown
Matthew wrote on 09/23/2011 03:21:06 AM: > On 23/09/2011 00:39, Joachim Tingvold wrote: > > Or replace :: with _, > > '_' is an illegal character in hostnames in the DNS... Yeah, I got hosed by that one by a consultant. How about replace all : with a -. :: becomes --. No rule against that,

Re: "if exists host-name" for IPv6 DDNS?

2011-09-28 Thread WBrown
Jan-Piet wrote on 09/28/2011 02:16:53 AM: > > Yeah, I got hosed by that one by a consultant. > > MCSE per chance? [Sorry; couldn't resist.] After 15 years I don't recall. Based on that advice, I have 10 servers with names containing underscores. And Lotus Notes/Domino likes to look up the s

RE: CNAME or A record?

2011-09-28 Thread WBrown
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Re: host versus nslookup

2011-10-12 Thread WBrown
Martin wrote on 10/12/2011 01:21:45 PM: >Other than a different output format, what are the > advantages of having both host and nslookup. host is four characters shorter. Confidentiality Notice: This electronic message and any attachments may contain confidential or privileged informati

Re: udp vs tcp query

2011-10-24 Thread WBrown
Kevin wrote on 10/22/2011 11:42:08 PM: > > remote server is rbldnsd with is not supporting tcp, how to solve this ? > > You have a badly broken DNS if it does not support TCP. You need to > fix this. Anything else is a band-aid that will just keep breaking > things. If it is a general purpose D

Re: DNSSEC and forward zones

2011-11-02 Thread WBrown
Lyle wrote on 11/01/2011 04:19:18 PM: > Again, this has a disadvantage if they ever decide to make .internal a > real internet domain name and some people frown upon this practice. Be > sure you know what can go wrong. Is there an IETF/ICANN reserved TLD for internal use? I've seen plenty of

Re: DNSSEC and forward zones

2011-11-02 Thread WBrown
Bill Owens wrote on 11/02/2011 09:26:07 AM: > I happened to be looking for some other details on mDNS yesterday > and noticed that the current draft version of the spec reserves .local: > > http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-cheshire-dnsext-multicastdns-14 >This document specifies that the DN

RE: Bind 9.9.0b2 inline signing...

2011-11-28 Thread WBrown
Todd wrote on 11/24/2011 11:29:14 AM: > I don't understand why Windows doesn't include dig by default, even > now. Free software hate? And grep and logrotate! At least the GnuWin32 project has a good version of grep. Confidentiality Notice: This electronic message and any attachments may

Re: How to identify a "raw" zone file

2011-12-02 Thread WBrown
Evan wrote on 12/01/2011 05:44:02 PM: > > I've looked at a few of them, and I noticed that all the ones I've seen > > start with the four-octet string "00 00 00 02". Is that sufficient? > > I'd recommend checking the next four octets as well; they'll be "00 00 00 00" > or "00 00 00 01". The f

Re: Botnet Malware issue on bind BIND 9.7.1-P2

2011-12-05 Thread WBrown
jagan padhi wrote on 12/05/2011 12:16:19 PM: > First of all i would like to know what all these .ws domians.due to > this junk domain query CDNS servers load are getting very high. > > Yes There is a limit set in my CDND server,however out of 100 query > 60 queries are coming for these junk

Re: bind as a service on windows "-c" option not working

2011-12-09 Thread WBrown
> How to tell the named running as a service to read the config file from > the path specified with "-c" option? Try changing path to executable by moving quote: "D:\bind9\bin\named.exe" "-c D:\bind_config\etc\named.conf" Confidentiality Notice: This electronic message and any attachments m

Re: bind as a service on windows "-c" option not working

2011-12-09 Thread WBrown
> No luck: The following information is part of the event: none:0: open: > C:\WINDOWS\system32\etc\named.conf: file not found So why not put the configuration file there. Then use the "directory" option to direct BIND to look for all the zone files on the D: drive. options { directory

Re: bind as a service on windows "-c" option not working

2011-12-09 Thread WBrown
> This is not the answer I am looking. If the parameter exists, it's must > working. Have you tried issuing the command from a command prompt? Confidentiality Notice: This electronic message and any attachments may contain confidential or privileged information, and is intended only for th

Re: About root zones

2012-01-04 Thread WBrown
micho...@cisco.com wrote on 01/03/2012 04:54:51 PM: > Maybe it's because I started in networking... But TCP/IP (or IPv6 these > days) is quite the "subsystem" to avoid. Really, like it or not, you are > actually responsible for understanding interactions with "subsystems" your > managed system

RE: DNSSEC made simple, is this possible?

2012-01-11 Thread WBrown
erms of what is on them. Perhaps other distros/flavors of *nix handle new versions differently. bind-users-bounces+wbrown=e1b@lists.isc.org wrote on 01/11/2012 11:50:01 AM: > Now if FreeBSD would just add 9.9 to the ports > collection, it would save me from having to build it by hand..

Re: Defense against a client?

2012-01-17 Thread WBrown
Tom Schmitt wrote on 01/16/2012 05:19:30 AM: > I have a problem with the load on my Bind. Normally it's fine, but > from time to time there are clients which causes through a > misconfiguration or a failed local service (not intentionally) a > very high amount of queries. After finding and info

Re: Problem with ed.gov

2012-01-19 Thread WBrown
Josh wrote on 01/19/2012 02:06:05 PM: > My resolvers seem to be having problems resolving ed.gov hosts. Others > have reported similar problems, but I am having trouble figuring out > where the problem lies. Some other resolvers seem to be resolving > ed.gov correctly. I am able to query their

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