Re: root and in-addr.arpa zone transfers

2009-09-14 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 07:28:56AM +0200, Michael Monnerie michael.monne...@is.it-management.at wrote a message of 51 lines which said: Faster queries after a named restart. Reverse lookups faster too, good for the spam filters. Did you measure it or is it, like most claims X is faster,

Re: root and in-addr.arpa zone transfers

2009-09-12 Thread Michael Monnerie
On Freitag 11 September 2009 Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: - it's quite useless to cache the .arpa and .in-addr.arpa since unlike other TLD's they are hierarchically organised so there won't be any valuable benefit from slaving them, only risks (see above). Every other point is OK, but I don't

Re: root and in-addr.arpa zone transfers

2009-09-12 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On Freitag 11 September 2009 Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: - it's quite useless to cache the .arpa and .in-addr.arpa since unlike other TLD's they are hierarchically organised so there won't be any valuable benefit from slaving them, only risks (see above). On 12.09.09 09:27, Michael

Re: root and in-addr.arpa zone transfers

2009-09-12 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 20090912082415.ga13...@fantomas.sk, Matus UHLAR - fantomas writes: On Freitag 11 September 2009 Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: - it's quite useless to cache the .arpa and .in-addr.arpa since unlike other TLD's they are hierarchically organised so there won't be any valuable

Re: root and in-addr.arpa zone transfers

2009-09-11 Thread Sam Wilson
In article mailman.469.1252646962.14796.bind-us...@lists.isc.org, Michael Monnerie michael.monne...@is.it-management.at wrote: On Freitag 11 September 2009 Joseph S D Yao wrote: However, as M. Bortzmeyer has said, why do this? Faster queries after a named restart. ... How often do you

Restarting named [was: Re: root and in-addr.arpa zone transfers]

2009-09-11 Thread Chris Thompson
On Sep 11 2009, Sam Wilson wrote: In article mailman.469.1252646962.14796.bind-us...@lists.isc.org, Michael Monnerie michael.monne...@is.it-management.at wrote: On Freitag 11 September 2009 Joseph S D Yao wrote: However, as M. Bortzmeyer has said, why do this? Faster queries after a named

Re: root and in-addr.arpa zone transfers

2009-09-11 Thread Rich Goodson
Slaving root is certainly not something I would recommend to everyone. In fact, I don't even use it on all of our name servers. I was just answering the question regarding how one would go about doing something rather than why or why not to do it. Here is why I do it and why I'm fairly

Re: root and in-addr.arpa zone transfers

2009-09-10 Thread omight
Apparently FreeBSD only slaves F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET in it's default configuration for bind: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/etc/namedb/named.conf http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/etc/namedb/named.conf?rev=1.21.2.9;content-type=text%2Fplain SNIP /* Slaving the following zones

Re: root and in-addr.arpa zone transfers

2009-09-10 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 08:23:23AM +0200, Michael Monnerie michael.monne...@is.it-management.at wrote a message of 54 lines which said: right now I'm using scripts to download root.zone and in-addr.arpa from internic.net. But this is a non-standard way, But a secure way since the files on

Re: root and in-addr.arpa zone transfers

2009-09-10 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 12:31:45PM +0200, Michael Monnerie michael.monne...@is.it-management.at wrote a message of 70 lines which said: that's a clear statement, so I'll keep the ftp transfers. It would be better to drop them completely and to return to ordinary DNS resolution. What's the

Re: root and in-addr.arpa zone transfers

2009-09-10 Thread Joseph S D Yao
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 11:27:27AM +0200, Michael Monnerie wrote: On Mittwoch 09 September 2009 Rich Goodson wrote: zone . { zone arpa { zone in-addr.arpa { Thank you Rich, and the others. Can anyone confirm that this is the way to do? Or should I stay with ftp updates from the

Re: root and in-addr.arpa zone transfers

2009-09-10 Thread Michael Monnerie
On Freitag 11 September 2009 Joseph S D Yao wrote: However, as M. Bortzmeyer has said, why do this? Faster queries after a named restart. Reverse lookups faster too, good for the spam filters. mfg zmi -- // Michael Monnerie, Ing.BSc- http://it-management.at // Tel: 0660 / 415 65

Re: root and in-addr.arpa zone transfers

2009-09-09 Thread Rick Dicaire
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Rich Goodson rgood...@gronkulator.com wrote: zone . {        type slave;        file slave/root.slave;        masters {                192.33.4.12;    // C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.                192.112.36.4;   // G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.                193.0.14.129;  

Re: root and in-addr.arpa zone transfers

2009-09-09 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 09.09.09 11:00, Rick Dicaire wrote: On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Rich Goodson rgood...@gronkulator.com wrote: zone . {        type slave;        file slave/root.slave;        masters {                192.33.4.12;    // C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.                192.112.36.4;   //