Re: Securing bind..

2001-12-30 Thread Jor-el
Russell, On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Russell Coker wrote: Also don't allow recursion from outside machines. Why does this help? Another possibility is to have the port for outgoing connections be something other than 53 (54 seems unused) and use iptables or ipchains to block data from the

Re: Securing bind..

2001-12-30 Thread P Prince
The eaisest and most failsafe way to secure bind is to install djbdns. Google is your friend. -Tech On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Petre Daniel wrote: Well,i know Karsten's on my back and all,but i have not much time to learn,and too many things to do at my firm,so i am asking if one of you has any

Re: Securing bind..

2001-12-30 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously P Prince wrote: The eaisest and most failsafe way to secure bind is to install djbdns. And the simple answer to that is: 1. bind is not DFSG-free and not packaged for Debian which makes it off-topic here. 2. replacing bind is not the same thing as securing it, which was the

Re: Securing bind..

2001-12-30 Thread Bdale Garbee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wichert Akkerman) writes: Previously P Prince wrote: The eaisest and most failsafe way to secure bind is to install djbdns. And the simple answer to that is: 1. bind is not DFSG-free and not packaged for Debian which makes it off-topic here. s/bind/djbdns/

Re: Securing bind..

2001-12-30 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 06:49:34PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously P Prince wrote: The eaisest and most failsafe way to secure bind is to install djbdns. And the simple answer to that is: 1. bind is not DFSG-free and not packaged for Debian which makes it off-topic here. May

Re: Securing bind..

2001-12-30 Thread jernej horvat
On Sunday 30 December 2001 18:46, P Prince wrote: The eaisest and most failsafe way to secure bind is to install djbdns. If you have nothing to say - do not speak. -- Configuration options for BIND are listed on http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/docs/config/ List of URL that might be usefull

Re: Securing bind..

2001-12-30 Thread Petre Daniel
thank you all very much. you're right.if one doesn't have anything useful to say i'll recommand him to let others help.. thx guys. At 10:02 PM 12/30/01 +0100, jernej horvat wrote: On Sunday 30 December 2001 18:46, P Prince wrote: The eaisest and most failsafe way to secure bind is to install

Re: Securing bind..

2001-12-30 Thread Jor-el
Russell, On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Russell Coker wrote: Lots of good stuff snipped Please read my messages carefully before flaming me. Ack! My apologies. Poor reading and poor wording. DNS cache machine sents out requests from source port 54 (not obscure - every administrator of

strange log

2001-12-30 Thread d_rob
I found this in message log,what it is Dec 30 06:50:55 debian syslogd 1.3-3#33.1: restart. Dec 30 07:13:36 debian -- MARK -- Dec 30 07:33:36 debian -- MARK -- Dec 30 07:53:36 debian -- MARK -- Dec 30 08:13:36 debian -- MARK -- Dec 30 08:33:36 debian -- MARK -- Dec 30 08:53:36 debian -- MARK --

Re: strange log

2001-12-30 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 06:53:38PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found this in message log,what it is Dec 30 06:50:55 debian syslogd 1.3-3#33.1: restart. Dec 30 07:13:36 debian -- MARK -- From 'man 8 syslogd': -m interval The syslogd logs a mark timestamp regularly.

Securing bind..

2001-12-30 Thread Petre Daniel
Well,i know Karsten's on my back and all,but i have not much time to learn,and too many things to do at my firm,so i am asking if one of you has any idea how can bind be protected against that DoS attack and if someone has some good firewall for a dns server ( that resolves names for internal

Re: Securing bind..

2001-12-30 Thread Russell Coker
On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 11:18, Petre Daniel wrote: Well,i know Karsten's on my back and all,but i have not much time to learn,and too many things to do at my firm,so i am asking if one of you has any idea how can bind be protected against that DoS attack and if someone has some good firewall for a

Re: Securing bind..

2001-12-30 Thread Jor-el
Russell, On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Russell Coker wrote: Also don't allow recursion from outside machines. Why does this help? Another possibility is to have the port for outgoing connections be something other than 53 (54 seems unused) and use iptables or ipchains to block data from the

Re: Securing bind..

2001-12-30 Thread P Prince
The eaisest and most failsafe way to secure bind is to install djbdns. Google is your friend. -Tech On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Petre Daniel wrote: Well,i know Karsten's on my back and all,but i have not much time to learn,and too many things to do at my firm,so i am asking if one of you has any

Re: Securing bind..

2001-12-30 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously P Prince wrote: The eaisest and most failsafe way to secure bind is to install djbdns. And the simple answer to that is: 1. bind is not DFSG-free and not packaged for Debian which makes it off-topic here. 2. replacing bind is not the same thing as securing it, which was the

Re: Securing bind..

2001-12-30 Thread Bdale Garbee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wichert Akkerman) writes: Previously P Prince wrote: The eaisest and most failsafe way to secure bind is to install djbdns. And the simple answer to that is: 1. bind is not DFSG-free and not packaged for Debian which makes it off-topic here. s/bind/djbdns/

Re: Securing bind..

2001-12-30 Thread Thomas Seyrat
Wichert Akkerman wrote: And the simple answer to that is: 1. bind is not DFSG-free and not packaged for Debian which makes it off-topic here. You mean djbdns, of course. 2. replacing bind is not the same thing as securing it, which was the question. There is a small presentation

Re: Securing bind..

2001-12-30 Thread Thomas Seyrat
Jor-el wrote: Another possibility is to have the port for outgoing connections be something other than 53 (54 seems unused) and use iptables or ipchains to block data from the outside world coming to port 53. [...] Of course, in the case of DNS servers, you could be OK, since you

Re: Securing bind..

2001-12-30 Thread Jacob Elder
On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 12:46:55PM -0500, P Prince wrote: The eaisest and most failsafe way to secure bind is to install djbdns. Troll. Google is your friend. -Tech On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Petre Daniel wrote: Well,i know Karsten's on my back and all,but i have not much time to

Re: Securing bind..

2001-12-30 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 06:49:34PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously P Prince wrote: The eaisest and most failsafe way to secure bind is to install djbdns. And the simple answer to that is: 1. bind is not DFSG-free and not packaged for Debian which makes it off-topic here. May

Re: Securing bind..

2001-12-30 Thread jernej horvat
On Sunday 30 December 2001 18:46, P Prince wrote: The eaisest and most failsafe way to secure bind is to install djbdns. If you have nothing to say - do not speak. -- Configuration options for BIND are listed on http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/docs/config/ List of URL that might be usefull

Re: Securing bind..

2001-12-30 Thread Petre Daniel
thank you all very much. you're right.if one doesn't have anything useful to say i'll recommand him to let others help.. thx guys. At 10:02 PM 12/30/01 +0100, jernej horvat wrote: On Sunday 30 December 2001 18:46, P Prince wrote: The eaisest and most failsafe way to secure bind is to install

Re: Securing bind..

2001-12-30 Thread John Galt
On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, P Prince wrote: The eaisest and most failsafe way to secure bind is to install djbdns. Because after djbdns, bind 4.2 looks like a pinnacle of security... Google is your friend. Apparently it didn't get you a clue... -Tech On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Petre Daniel wrote:

Re: Securing bind..

2001-12-30 Thread Jor-el
Russell, On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Russell Coker wrote: Lots of good stuff snipped Please read my messages carefully before flaming me. Ack! My apologies. Poor reading and poor wording. DNS cache machine sents out requests from source port 54 (not obscure - every administrator of every

strange log

2001-12-30 Thread d_rob
I found this in message log,what it is Dec 30 06:50:55 debian syslogd 1.3-3#33.1: restart. Dec 30 07:13:36 debian -- MARK -- Dec 30 07:33:36 debian -- MARK -- Dec 30 07:53:36 debian -- MARK -- Dec 30 08:13:36 debian -- MARK -- Dec 30 08:33:36 debian -- MARK -- Dec 30 08:53:36 debian -- MARK --

Re: strange log

2001-12-30 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 06:53:38PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found this in message log,what it is Dec 30 06:50:55 debian syslogd 1.3-3#33.1: restart. Dec 30 07:13:36 debian -- MARK -- From 'man 8 syslogd': -m interval The syslogd logs a mark timestamp regularly.

Re: Securing bind..

2001-12-30 Thread Jor-el
On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, John Galt wrote: On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, P Prince wrote: The eaisest and most failsafe way to secure bind is to install djbdns. Because after djbdns, bind 4.2 looks like a pinnacle of security... John, Enlighten me please. I've heard a few things about the