/var overflow and named pipes?

2012-09-25 Thread Gary Aitken
some icons under xfwm4 not showing, and some of the top menu bar text hosed (showing the square box char which usually indicates bad character data). I was able to shut it down by exiting the controlling xterm. Somewhere in there I'm pretty sure I saw a message something like "Too

Re: Named | Annoying behaviour

2011-08-04 Thread Jos Chrispijn
Matthew Seaman: One unfortunate consequence is that any relative paths within named.conf have to be altered accordingly. Thanks for your detailed explanation, I will follow up and let you know if I managed to solve it. BR Jos Chrispijn ___ freebsd-qu

Re: Named | Annoying behaviour

2011-08-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
on 04/08/2011 11:33, Jos Chrispijn wrote: > I latety face an issue with BIND 9.4.-ESV-R4-P1. I deduce that you are running FreeBSD 7.x > According to my log file, I get the following error: > Aug 4 12:00:03 triton named[93266]: starting BIND 9.4.-ESV-R4-P1 -c > /etc/namedb/n

Named | Annoying behaviour

2011-08-04 Thread Jos Chrispijn
Dear group, I latety face an issue with BIND 9.4.-ESV-R4-P1. According to my log file, I get the following error: Aug 4 12:00:03 triton named[93266]: starting BIND 9.4.-ESV-R4-P1 -c /etc/namedb/named.conf -t /var/named -u bind Aug 4 12:00:03 triton named[93266]: command channel listening on

fuser(1): do FIFOs and sockets count as "named" files?

2011-05-26 Thread Pan Tsu
fuser(1) man page mentions the tool is supposed to list processes that have specified named file(s) open. As there are several types of files (according to stat(2)) it's not clear which are supported, e.g. $ (mkfifo foo.fifo; cat <>foo.fifo) & nc -lU foo.socket & $ fus

Re: named/bind problems....

2011-01-19 Thread Gary Kline
ues. I thought you were set when we > fixed your resolv last night. > > Okay - let's start from scratch here > > Are you sure you need a named? Are you actually serving dns for your own IP > addresses or are you using it as a caching server. i am actua

Re: named/bind problems....

2011-01-19 Thread Robert Boyer
EVERY system it tells ALL of the software to get name services from. We fixed this last night for one of your systems by pointing it at a name server that works (the one you had did not work) B) named provides name services (as well as forwarding to other dns services) and can be

Re: named/bind problems....

2011-01-19 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 06:11:23PM -0500, Robert Boyer wrote: > Sorry to see you are still having issues. I thought you were set when we > fixed your resolv last night. > > Okay - let's start from scratch here > > Are you sure you need a named? Are you actually serv

Re: named/bind problems....

2011-01-19 Thread Robert Boyer
Sorry to see you are still having issues. I thought you were set when we fixed your resolv last night. Okay - let's start from scratch here Are you sure you need a named? Are you actually serving dns for your own IP addresses or are you using it as a caching server. Getting a new

named/bind problems....

2011-01-19 Thread Gary Kline
Yesterday noon my time I rebooted my server. Things seemed to be slow. Several streams were hanging or stopping, and because ethic.thought.org had been up for 61 days I figured it wouldn't hurt to reinitialize stuff. Well, nutshell, disaster. For hours it wasn't clear whether the server would su

Re: How to Best Prevent Unwanted named installation

2010-09-11 Thread Arthur Chance
built when we could be doing DNS. Since I am not using that version of bind, not getting it built is no problem. I don't even care if it gets built so long as it does not end up in /usr/sbin to clobber the new bind9.7. If your ports version of named is in /usr/sbin you must have en

Re: How to Best Prevent Unwanted named installation

2010-09-11 Thread RW
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:58:42 -0500 Martin McCormick wrote: > After successfully installing bind97 from a package on > to a new server, I do a cvs-sup of the system to get the latest > patches in to the kernel. After discovering that bind97 had been > replaced with bind9.6.1, Presumably th

Re: How to Best Prevent Unwanted named installation

2010-09-10 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 04:58 PM 9/10/2010, Martin McCormick wrote: contrib/bind9 directory. What is the safest way to disable that build without adversly effecting the rest of the update? Hi, Take a look at the man page for src.conf (and make.conf for completeness). You can control parts of what gets buil

How to Best Prevent Unwanted named installation

2010-09-10 Thread Martin McCormick
After successfully installing bind97 from a package on to a new server, I do a cvs-sup of the system to get the latest patches in to the kernel. After discovering that bind97 had been replaced with bind9.6.1, I looked in /usr/src and there is a contrib/bind9 directory. What is the safest wa

Re: Ownership of /var/named Changes on Reboot.

2010-06-17 Thread Martin McCormick
Matthew Seaman writes: > Furthermore, the default setup *is* for named to run as an unprivileged > process. The setup is very carefully designed so that named doesn't > have write permission on the directory where its configuration files are > stored, or on directories that co

Re: Ownership of /var/named Changes on Reboot.

2010-06-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17/06/2010 09:37:03, krad wrote: > so the logical extension to this is by changing the ownership of the > directory to bind, you are making the configuration directory writeable, and > therefore you are actually lowering security. Correct.

Re: Ownership of /var/named Changes on Reboot.

2010-06-17 Thread krad
On 17 June 2010 08:47, Matthew Seaman wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 17/06/2010 04:21:34, Peter Boosten wrote: > > On 17-6-2010 4:58, Robert Huff wrote: > >> > >> Martin McCormick writes: > >> > >>>

Re: Ownership of /var/named Changes on Reboot.

2010-06-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17/06/2010 04:21:34, Peter Boosten wrote: > On 17-6-2010 4:58, Robert Huff wrote: >> >> Martin McCormick writes: >> >>> Is there a way to keep /var/named owned by bind across >>> reboots? >> &g

Re: Ownership of /var/named Changes on Reboot.

2010-06-16 Thread Peter Boosten
On 17-6-2010 4:58, Robert Huff wrote: > > Martin McCormick writes: > >> Is there a way to keep /var/named owned by bind across >> reboots? > > Yes. I had this happen for a long time. > The bad news is it had been years since I fixed it, and I no

Ownership of /var/named Changes on Reboot.

2010-06-16 Thread Robert Huff
Martin McCormick writes: > Is there a way to keep /var/named owned by bind across > reboots? Yes. I had this happen for a long time. The bad news is it had been years since I fixed it, and I no longer remember exactly what I did. I will keep

Ownership of /var/named Changes on Reboot.

2010-06-16 Thread Martin McCormick
I run named chrooted to bind but not in a jail. When the system reboots, something changes ownership of /var/named back to root:wheel. I have thought several times I figured out how to prevent this from happening, but to no avail. The most promising lead was the following

Re: named - Is It Possible to Forward Requests for One Domain to Another Server?

2010-05-25 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 5/25/2010 4:58 PM, Thomas Keusch wrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 04:30:04PM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: Hi Drew, In my home network, I have named running to resolve machines on my LAN. It is also configured to forward requests to my ISP for all other queries. On another machine in my

Re: named - Is It Possible to Forward Requests for One Domain to Another Server?

2010-05-25 Thread Thomas Keusch
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 04:30:04PM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: Hi Drew, > In my home network, I have named running to resolve machines on my LAN. > It is also configured to forward requests to my ISP for all other queries. > > On another machine in my LAN, I used mpd to

named - Is It Possible to Forward Requests for One Domain to Another Server?

2010-05-25 Thread Drew Tomlinson
In my home network, I have named running to resolve machines on my LAN. It is also configured to forward requests to my ISP for all other queries. On another machine in my LAN, I used mpd to create a vpn connection to my work and set appropriate routes so that any machine on my LAN can

Can a foreign drive's mirrors be prevented from joining identically named mirrors?

2010-05-08 Thread Peter Steele
into the identically named mirrors on the system where the drive has been inserted. What's worse, they may also become recognized as the mirrors with the most recent data, even though they came from a different system and should in fact be immediately flagged as dirty and synchronized wit

Re: Does NAT require DNS (named)?

2010-04-12 Thread Gary Dunn
On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 20:46 -0400, Brodey Dover wrote: > If you already have a name server on your network then no, the WAP > will not need to use DNS. You can tell the clients of the WAP that a > nameserver exists in the DHCPD.conf file. > > I believe you can also set router 10.0.0.1 for example

Re: Does NAT require DNS (named)?

2010-04-08 Thread Brodey Dover
0400 mikel king >> wrote: >> >>> On Apr 8, 2010, at 4:57 PM, Gary Dunn wrote: >>> >>>> Continuing the saga of building a wireless access point, what is the >>>> best way to provide DNS service to the dowstream network? Seems like >>>

Re: Does NAT require DNS (named)?

2010-04-08 Thread mikel king
need is a simple pass-through. For that named seems like overkill. Anyone have an /etc/named/named.conf that does that? Depends on how your internal LAN is configured. Generally if there are no internal servers then you can forgo deploying a DNS server. Simply setup your firewall IPFW or pf or

Re: Does NAT require DNS (named)?

2010-04-08 Thread Gary Dunn
e pass-through. For that named seems like >> overkill. Anyone have an /etc/named/named.conf that does that? > > > Depends on how your internal LAN is configured. Generally if there are > no internal servers then you can forgo deploying a DNS server. Simply > setup your firewall

Re: Does NAT require DNS (named)?

2010-04-08 Thread Darek M
Gary Dunn wrote: Continuing the saga of building a wireless access point, what is the best way to provide DNS service to the dowstream network? Seems like all I need is a simple pass-through. For that named seems like overkill. Anyone have an /etc/named/named.conf that does that? I normally

Re: Does NAT require DNS (named)?

2010-04-08 Thread mikel king
On Apr 8, 2010, at 4:57 PM, Gary Dunn wrote: Continuing the saga of building a wireless access point, what is the best way to provide DNS service to the dowstream network? Seems like all I need is a simple pass-through. For that named seems like overkill. Anyone have an /etc/named

Re: Does NAT require DNS (named)?

2010-04-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 8, 2010, at 1:57 PM, Gary Dunn wrote: > Continuing the saga of building a wireless access point, what is the best way > to provide DNS service to the dowstream network? Run a nameserver? > Seems like all I need is a simple pass-through. For that named seems like > overkill.

Does NAT require DNS (named)?

2010-04-08 Thread Gary Dunn
Continuing the saga of building a wireless access point, what is the best way to provide DNS service to the dowstream network? Seems like all I need is a simple pass-through. For that named seems like overkill. Anyone have an /etc/named/named.conf that does that? -- Gary Dunn, Honolulu o

Named errors after adding IPv4 alias - solved by restarting named

2010-02-17 Thread John
It seems that if you add an alias to an interface once named is up and running, it will cause named, on an hourly basis from the time named was first started (that is, if it was started at 07:32 after the hour, then every hour after the alias is added at about 07:32 after each hour), named will

Re: HELP! Is that possible "creating a user named root but acturallynot the administrator root"

2010-02-13 Thread Lin Taosheng
yes, I login with "toor" as root successfully. 2010/2/14 Chris Rees : > On 13 February 2010 18:10, Matthew Seaman wrote: >> On 13/02/2010 17:49, Bob Johnson wrote: >> >>> It is possible (I don't remember) that the "toor" account does not >>> have a shell in the default passwd file. If that's the

Re: HELP! Is that possible "creating a user named root but acturallynot the administrator root"

2010-02-13 Thread Chris Rees
On 13 February 2010 18:10, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 13/02/2010 17:49, Bob Johnson wrote: > >> It is possible (I don't remember) that the "toor" account does not >> have a shell in the default passwd file. If that's the problem, use >> vipw to add the path to a shell as the last field on the line

Re: HELP! Is that possible "creating a user named root but acturallynot the administrator root"

2010-02-13 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 13/02/2010 17:49, Bob Johnson wrote: > It is possible (I don't remember) that the "toor" account does not > have a shell in the default passwd file. If that's the problem, use > vipw to add the path to a shell as the last field on the line. The > "root" account should provide a good example, o

Re: HELP! Is that possible "creating a user named root but acturallynot the administrator root"

2010-02-13 Thread Bob Johnson
On 2/12/10, Jason Lin wrote: > I try this method, after set the password of "toor", > I can't login with the account "toor". It is possible (I don't remember) that the "toor" account does not have a shell in the default passwd file. If that's the problem, use vipw to add the path to a shell as t

Re: HELP! Is that possible "creating a user named root but acturallynot the administrator root"

2010-02-12 Thread Jason Lin
I try this method, after set the password of "toor", I can't login with the account "toor". "Bogdan Webb" ??:c81e6afd1002102307l2b089a76p36a8d67d3085a...@mail.gmail.com... > Edit the /etc/master.passwd and /etc/passwd records to change the uid and > gid of the "root" account BUT FIRST MAKE

Re: HELP! Is that possible "creating a user named root but acturally not the administrator root"

2010-02-11 Thread Bob Johnson
On 2/11/10, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 01:58:07PM -0500, Bob Johnson wrote: > >> On 2/11/10, Robert Huff wrote: >> > >> > Lin Taosheng writes: >> > >> >> Is that possible to implementated? >> > >> >> Yes, use vipw to edit the password file. Add another username that is

Re: HELP! Is that possible "creating a user named root but acturally not the administrator root"

2010-02-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:04:00 +, Matthew Seaman wrote: >On 11/02/2010 05:23, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >>On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:18:30 -0500, Robert Huff wrote: >>>Lin Taosheng writes: Is that possible to implementated? >>> >>> For most purposes, what's important is not the account na

Re: HELP! Is that possible "creating a user named root but acturally not the administrator root"

2010-02-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
the "root" > > account and have a non UID 0 account with that name. On the other > > hand, if you're asking this question there may be a better way to > > accomplish your objective: would you care to share? > > Having an account named "root" that is n

Re: HELP! Is that possible "creating a user named root but acturally not the administrator root"

2010-02-11 Thread Bob Johnson
works properly when you do that in FreeBSD. > As far as I know, there's no reason you can't rename the "root" > account and have a non UID 0 account with that name. On the other > hand, if you're asking this question there may be a better way to > accomplish

Re: HELP! Is that possible "creating a user named root but acturally not the administrator root"

2010-02-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 11/02/2010 05:23, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:18:30 -0500, Robert Huff wrote: >> Lin Taosheng writes: >>> Is that possible to implementated? >> >> For most purposes, what's important is not the account name, >> but the User II. "Root" is special because it has UID 0.

Re: HELP! Is that possible "creating a user named root but acturallynot the administrator root"

2010-02-10 Thread Bogdan Webb
Edit the /etc/master.passwd and /etc/passwd records to change the uid and gid of the "root" account BUT FIRST MAKE SURE YOU ADD (or changed password of) ANOTHER UID0 ACCOUNT here's an example: etc/master.passwd: root:*PASSWORD HASH*:99:99::0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/csh and /etc/passwd root:*:99:99:

Re: HELP! Is that possible "creating a user named root but acturallynot the administrator root"

2010-02-10 Thread Anthony M. Rasat
Lin Taosheng wrote: >Is that possible to implementated? No. I think not. But I have not tried it either. Can I ask what do you want to achieve? Because I had the same thought once, concerning how to combat once-increasing script-driven SSH brute-force attack. But I was instead have a better so

Re: HELP! Is that possible "creating a user named root but acturally not the administrator root"

2010-02-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:18:30 -0500, Robert Huff wrote: >Lin Taosheng writes: >> Is that possible to implementated? > > For most purposes, what's important is not the account name, > but the User II. "Root" is special because it has UID 0. You can, > create other accounts with UIS 0 ... but

HELP! Is that possible "creating a user named root but acturally not the administrator root"

2010-02-10 Thread Robert Huff
Lin Taosheng writes: > Is that possible to implementated? For most purposes, what's important is not the account name, but the User II. "Root" is special because it has UID 0. You can, create other accounts with UIS 0 ... but it's usually a Very Bad Idea. As far as I know,

HELP! Is that possible "creating a user named root but acturally not the administrator root"

2010-02-10 Thread Lin Taosheng
Hi all, Is that possible to implementated? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: UDP flooding / Ethernet issues? WAS Re: named "error sending response: not enough free resources"

2010-01-29 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Jan 29, 2010, at 8:51 AM, James Smallacombe wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:59 PM, James Smallacombe wrote: >>> To follow up on this: Noticed the issue again this morning, which also was >>> accompanied by latency so high that I could not connect (some pings got >>> through at very h

Re: UDP flooding / Ethernet issues? WAS Re: named "error sending response: not enough free resources"

2010-01-29 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:51 AM, James Smallacombe wrote: > Some updates that may confuse more than inform: I caught this while it was > happening yesterday and was able to do a tcpdump. I saw a ton of UDP > traffic outbound to one IP that turned out to be a colocated server in > Chicago. I pu

UDP flooding / Ethernet issues? WAS Re: named "error sending response: not enough free resources"

2010-01-29 Thread James Smallacombe
ot to mention is that this server is running TWO instances of named, on two different IPs (for different domains), each running a few hundred zones. Bottom line: Would congestion cause this issue, or would this issue cause congestion? Some updates that may confuse more than inform: I caught this whi

Re: named "error sending response: not enough free resources"

2010-01-28 Thread Adam Vande More
. > One key difference that I forgot to mention is that this server is running > TWO instances of named, on two different IPs (for different domains), each > running a few hundred zones. > > Bottom line: Would congestion cause this issue, or would this issue cause > congestion? &

Re: named "error sending response: not enough free resources"

2010-01-28 Thread James Smallacombe
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010, Chuck Swiger wrote: Hi-- On Jan 27, 2010, at 1:15 PM, James Smallacombe wrote: Jan 26 21:50:32 host named[667]: client #57938: error sending response: not enough free resources Jan 26 21:50:32 host named[667]: client #59830: error sending response: not enough free

Re: named "error sending response: not enough free resources"

2010-01-27 Thread James Smallacombe
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jan 27, 2010, at 1:15 PM, James Smallacombe wrote: Jan 26 21:50:32 host named[667]: client #57938: error sending response: not enough free resources indicates a problem sending UDP traffic; netstat -s output would be Unfortunately, I did not

Re: named "error sending response: not enough free resources"

2010-01-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Jan 27, 2010, at 1:15 PM, James Smallacombe wrote: >>> Jan 26 21:50:32 host named[667]: client #57938: error sending >>> response: not enough free resources >>> Jan 26 21:50:32 host named[667]: client #59830: error sending >>> response: not enough fre

Re: named "error sending response: not enough free resources"

2010-01-27 Thread James Smallacombe
ouple of hours earlier, then looked at the archives and noticed zero traffic on that list for the past couple of weeks, so I then posted here. After getting home, I looked in the syslog and see thousands of these: Jan 26 21:50:32 host named[667]: client #57938: error sending response: not e

Re: named "error sending response: not enough free resources"

2010-01-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
t; rebooted it and it was fine. > > After getting home, I looked in the syslog and see thousands of these: > > Jan 26 21:50:32 host named[667]: client #57938: error sending > response: not enough free resources > Jan 26 21:50:32 host named[667]: client #59830: error sending

named "error sending response: not enough free resources"

2010-01-27 Thread James Smallacombe
over IP. CPU was fine and there wre no full partitions. As I had to catch a flight, I just rebooted it and it was fine. After getting home, I looked in the syslog and see thousands of these: Jan 26 21:50:32 host named[667]: client #57938: error sending response: not enough free resources

Re: named needs restart after a reboot

2009-12-09 Thread Derrick Ryalls
t;>> 6 11:23:52 PST 2009     ryal...@example.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FRODO >>> amd64 >>> >>> I have most things working, but I have noticed that every time I >>> reboot the machine, I need to manually restart named to get it >>> listening on the pr

Re: named needs restart after a reboot

2009-12-09 Thread Derrick Ryalls
>> amd64 >> >> I have most things working, but I have noticed that every time I >> reboot the machine, I need to manually restart named to get it >> listening on the proper interfaces as by default it is listening on >> 127.0.0.1 interfaces only.  A simple /etc/r

Re: named needs restart after a reboot

2009-12-08 Thread Warren Block
manually restart named to get it listening on the proper interfaces as by default it is listening on 127.0.0.1 interfaces only. A simple /etc/rc.d/named restart fixes it which seems like it would be configured correctly, but I have had to do this on a install before. Anyone have a guess as to what

named needs restart after a reboot

2009-12-08 Thread Derrick Ryalls
Greetings, uname: FreeBSD example.com 8.0-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p1 #0: Sun Dec 6 11:23:52 PST 2009 ryal...@example.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FRODO amd64 I have most things working, but I have noticed that every time I reboot the machine, I need to manually restart named to get it

Re: named issue

2009-09-26 Thread Jos Chrispijn
Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: These are queries your mailservers are making to the spamhaus blocking list. How many queries to the ZEN Spamhaus DNSBL are you making per day? If you exceed their "non-commercial" usage, they will cut you off. I see. Thank you all for your suggestions. Jos Chrispijn

Re: named issue

2009-09-25 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Sep 25, 2009, at 2:00 PM, Jos Chrispijn wrote: [named] Lately I get messages like thin in my all.log: named[605]: too many timeouts resolving '*.*.*.*.zen.spamhaus.org/ A' (in 'zen.spamhaus.ORG'?): disabling EDNS (*) is random ip address These are queries your ma

Re: named issue

2009-09-25 Thread Tim Judd
On 9/25/09, Jos Chrispijn wrote: > [named] > > Lately I get messages like thin in my all.log: > > named[605]: too many timeouts resolving '*.*.*.*.zen.spamhaus.org/A' (in > 'zen.spamhaus.ORG'?): disabling EDNS > > (*) is random ip address >

named issue

2009-09-25 Thread Jos Chrispijn
[named] Lately I get messages like thin in my all.log: named[605]: too many timeouts resolving '*.*.*.*.zen.spamhaus.org/A' (in 'zen.spamhaus.ORG'?): disabling EDNS (*) is random ip address Now before I add the following lines in /etc/named.conf or /var/named/chr

Re: /etc/rc.d/named dilemma

2009-08-23 Thread perryh
Nerius Landys wrote: > I am still bambuzzled by the network taking 30 seconds to come up. One thing I've run into recently is an Ethernet switch that needs to resolve spanning tree after a port reset. The physical link comes back up quickly, but it seems to take about 30 seconds before the swit

Re: /etc/rc.d/named dilemma

2009-08-22 Thread Mario Lobo
ce 30 seconds). This ping command is > issued very early in the rc.d scripts, after NETWORK and before named, > and the script does not exit until a ping request is successful. > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists

Re: /etc/rc.d/named dilemma

2009-08-22 Thread Nerius Landys
new IP address. However the original description is that when I issue a "ping -c 100 x.y.z.w" to a well-known IP address, only the last 70 packets get returned, not the first 30 (hence 30 seconds). This ping command is issued very early in the rc.d scripts, after NETWORK and before n

Re: /etc/rc.d/named dilemma

2009-08-22 Thread Robert Huff
Nerius Landys wrote: I am still bambuzzled by the network taking 30 seconds to come up. I don't remember the original description, but any time I hear about a 30 second "gap" during startup, I think of the well-known DNS reverse look-up issue. Are you sure this is not the case here?

Re: /etc/rc.d/named dilemma

2009-08-22 Thread Nerius Landys
> calcru: runtime went backwards from 37332 usec to 16577 > usec for pid 47 (sh)... Not to seem like I'm talking to myself, but I fixed this problem: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/troubleshoot.html#CALCRU-NEGATIVE-RUNTIME (Turn off Intel® Enhanced SpeedStep.) I am still bam

Re: /etc/rc.d/named dilemma

2009-08-22 Thread Nerius Landys
One last question. I'm getting interesting [kernel?] messages during bootup. You know, the kind that are highlighted white in the console. The relevant lines of rc.conf look like this right now: defaultrouter="64.156.192.1" hostname="daffy.nerius.com" ifconfig_em0="inet 64.156.192.169 netmask

Re: /etc/rc.d/named dilemma

2009-08-22 Thread Nerius Landys
ed it in rc.conf: === #!/bin/sh # PROVIDE: waitfornetwork # REQUIRE: NETWORKING # BEFORE: named . /etc/rc.subr : ${waitfornetwork_enable:=NO} name=waitfornetwork rcvar=`set_rcvar` stop_cmd=":" start_cmd="waitfornetwork_start" waitfornetwork_start() { ech

Re: /etc/rc.d/named dilemma

2009-08-22 Thread RW
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:37:09 -0700 Nerius Landys wrote: > Then why > can't I do a lookup right after named starts? Possibly it's a delay in bind being ready or maybe you don't have any network access - the latter is common with ppp. > By the way, the underlying

Re: /etc/rc.d/named dilemma

2009-08-22 Thread cpghost
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 09:37:09PM -0700, Nerius Landys wrote: > I am trying to figure out why DNS lookups are not possible right after > the "named" process has been launched (during bootup). At start, named sends a couple of queries to e.g. root servers. All this requires the ne

/etc/rc.d/named dilemma

2009-08-21 Thread Nerius Landys
I am trying to figure out why DNS lookups are not possible right after the "named" process has been launched (during bootup). I am kind of a newb at diagnosing these sorts of issues, but as an attempt to figure out what's wrong, I added the following lines to the very bottom of my

/etc/rc.d/named dilemma

2009-08-21 Thread Nerius Landys
I am trying to figure out why DNS lookups are not possible right after the "named" process has been launched (during bootup). I am kind of a newb at diagnosing these sorts of issues, but as an attempt to figure out what's wrong, I added the following lines to the very bottom of my

Re: named startup problems upgrading from 7.1p4 to 7.1p5 or 7.1p6

2009-07-13 Thread Ian
-update). As soon as I apply the update & reboot, named loads but > the startup script hangs. > > If I press Ctrl+C, the system continues to boot. If I then run > /etc/rc.d/named start, named starts, but again the script hangs. I can do > DNS lookups while named is running, so it s

Re: named startup problems upgrading from 7.1p4 to 7.1p5 or 7.1p6

2009-06-30 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:35:26 +, no-s...@people.net.au wrote: > Sorry for starting a new thread with this - my ISP's mail server seems to > rejecting all mail recipients when I Which which reason? > send email with a mail client, so I'm having to use webmail instead. Their > tech says the

Re: named startup problems upgrading from 7.1p4 to 7.1p5 or 7.1p6

2009-06-30 Thread no-spam
Matthew Seaman wrote: > Ian wrote: > > Well the fact that if I run /etc/rc.d/named manually after the system > > has booted, the script also hangs suggests it's not the next process I > > have just check however & ntpdate is the next one in the list to be > > sta

Re: named startup problems upgrading from 7.1p4 to 7.1p5 or 7.1p6

2009-06-28 Thread Mel Flynn
On Sunday 28 June 2009 03:24:26 Ian wrote: > I tried adding various echo statements to /etc/rc.d/named and found that > the script seems to run right through. rc_debug="YES" in /etc/rc.conf is REALLY handy for this. -- Mel ___ f

Re: named startup problems upgrading from 7.1p4 to 7.1p5 or 7.1p6

2009-06-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
Ian wrote: Well the fact that if I run /etc/rc.d/named manually after the system has booted, the script also hangs suggests it's not the next process I have just check however & ntpdate is the next one in the list to be started and that does start correctly - you can see it report

Re: named startup problems upgrading from 7.1p4 to 7.1p5 or 7.1p6

2009-06-28 Thread Ian
update the system to 7.1p5 > > (using freebsd-update). As soon as I apply the update & reboot, named > > loads but the startup script hangs. > > > > If I press Ctrl+C, the system continues to boot. If I then run > > /etc/rc.d/named start, named starts, but again the s

Re: named startup problems upgrading from 7.1p4 to 7.1p5 or 7.1p6

2009-06-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
p; reboot, named loads but the startup script hangs. If I press Ctrl+C, the system continues to boot. If I then run /etc/rc.d/named start, named starts, but again the script hangs. I can do DNS lookups while named is running, so it seems to be functioning ok. I tried adding various echo statement

named startup problems upgrading from 7.1p4 to 7.1p5 or 7.1p6

2009-06-28 Thread Ian
Hi, I've been meaning to sort this out since the release of 7.1p5, but only just got around to it - I have an installation of 7.1 that runs bind and has been working fine up until I tried to update the system to 7.1p5 (using freebsd-update). As soon as I apply the update & reboot, na

Re: named: error sending response: not enough free resources

2009-06-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
This is a dedicated server in a datacenter. I don't know the exact switch specs but it's likely a layer 2/3 managed switch. Probably a 1U catalyst. you mean cisco? there are actually most problematic switches. They don't properly autonegotiate speed and full/half duplex with many network card

Re: named: error sending response: not enough free resources

2009-06-05 Thread Chris St Denis
Steve Bertrand wrote: Chris St Denis wrote: Steve Bertrand wrote: What type of device is em1 attached to? Is it a switch or a hub? Is it possible to upgrade this? You should upgrade it to 100 (or 1000) anyways. Does this device show any collisions? This is a dedicated se

D'oh! was Re: Named ignoring forward-only zones?

2009-06-05 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Thursday 04 June 2009 11:53:38 am Kirk Strauser wrote: > For some reason, BIND 9 (FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE) isn't properly forwarding > queries. Commenting out // zone "10.in-addr.arpa" { type master; file "master/empty.db"; }; from named.conf fixed the problem. That's kind of... embarrassing

Re: Named ignoring forward-only zones?

2009-06-05 Thread Jeff Laine
; }; > }; > > > Now, I can query the forwarder directly to get the right answer: > > $ dig +noall +answer -t ptr -x 10.0.5.16 @10.0.5.16 > 16.5.0.10.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN PTR kanga.honeypot.net. > > But I can't get the same from named: > >

Named ignoring forward-only zones?

2009-06-04 Thread Kirk Strauser
.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN PTR kanga.honeypot.net. But I can't get the same from named: $ dig -t ptr -x 10.0.5.16 ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 56485 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;16.5.0.1

Re: named: error sending response: not enough free resources

2009-06-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Not really. The point is that at the time the network card goes from up to down, named spits out this error. If you log named to a different log file then /var/log/messages, you will not see the relation. The reason for changing this is one reason i always change syslog.conf to configure

Re: named: error sending response: not enough free resources

2009-06-03 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 03 June 2009 11:48:48 Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >> possible reasons > >> - your firewall rules are the cause - check it. > >> - your network card produce problems (REALLY i have that case) > >> - the network/LAN named tries to sent UDP packet is som

Re: named: error sending response: not enough free resources

2009-06-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
possible reasons - your firewall rules are the cause - check it. - your network card produce problems (REALLY i have that case) - the network/LAN named tries to sent UDP packet is somehow flooded. - the network card changes from UP to DOWN state at the time of the error See that a lot running

Re: named: error sending response: not enough free resources

2009-06-03 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 03 June 2009 00:46:20 Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > named[69750]: client *ip removed*: error sending response: not > > enough free resources > > quite misleading message, but the problem is that named want to send UDP > packet and get's error from kern

Re: named: error sending response: not enough free resources

2009-06-02 Thread Wojciech Puchar
- the network/LAN named tries to sent UDP packet is somehow flooded. Dns is probably fairly busy. It's the primary authorative dns for some busy domains. Is there a setting I can do to increase the limits of UDP packets to keep it from causing problems? it would

Re: named: error sending response: not enough free resources

2009-06-02 Thread Steve Bertrand
Chris St Denis wrote: > Steve Bertrand wrote: >> What type of device is em1 attached to? Is it a switch or a hub? Is it >> possible to upgrade this? You should upgrade it to 100 (or 1000) >> anyways. Does this device show any collisions? >> > This is a dedicated server in a datacenter. I don't

Re: named: error sending response: not enough free resources

2009-06-02 Thread Tim Judd
- the network/LAN named tries to sent UDP packet is somehow flooded. >> > > Dns is probably fairly busy. It's the primary authorative dns for > some busy domains. Is there a setting I can do to increase the > limits of UDP packets to keep it from causing problems? &g

Re: named: error sending response: not enough free resources

2009-06-02 Thread Tim Judd
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Wojciech Puchar < woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote: > lot of searching and have found others with similar problems, but no >> solutions. >> >> named[69750]: client *ip removed*: error sending response: not >> enough free r

Re: named: error sending response: not enough free resources

2009-06-02 Thread Chris St Denis
multiple servers over the years, so i don't think it's a hardware problem. - the network/LAN named tries to sent UDP packet is somehow flooded. Dns is probably fairly busy. It's the primary authorative dns for some busy domains. Is there a setting I can do

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