Database backed DNS Management Solutions

2009-02-03 Thread Ross Dmochowski
I hope I can solicit some feedback from this venerable group. :-)   Currently, my group operates 16 BIND servers across 5 datacenters, handling internal and external namespace duties. These servers are responsible for both internal and external forward and reverse name and IP spaces.   There

Re: Split view multiple zones

2009-02-03 Thread JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉
At Tue, 3 Feb 2009 12:14:41 +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > > Can anyone confirm, and if I'm right, tell me that it will be better in > > > next > > > BIND releases? > > > There's no plan to change this behavior (as far as I know). > > anything like attach-cache, hierarchical or share

Re: Split DNS, internal/external

2009-02-03 Thread Linux Addict
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Jeff Howard wrote: > Hi all, > > Having a problem setting up split DNS for the purpose of separating > internal, recursive, caching responses vs external, non caching, non > recusrive responses. First off, can views be used to do this? > > If yes, here are the rel

Split DNS, internal/external

2009-02-03 Thread Jeff Howard
Hi all, Having a problem setting up split DNS for the purpose of separating internal, recursive, caching responses vs external, non caching, non recusrive responses. First off, can views be used to do this? If yes, here are the relevant (I hope) portions of named.conf, which I've set up based on

Re: Dynamic update of TXT record?

2009-02-03 Thread Linux Addict
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 5:03 PM, JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 wrote: > At Thu, 1 Jan 2009 12:23:02 +0100, > Michelle Konzack wrote: > > > Q 1:Which setting is missing? > > > > Q2: Can someone tell me how to update a TXT record? > > Please show named.conf of the authoritative server (the one accept

Re: DDOS prevention - how to restrict queries to hint (root) zones?

2009-02-03 Thread Mark Andrews
In message , David Forrest writes: > On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Mark Andrews wrote: > > > > > In message <1233658532.12933.42.ca...@muccalla.uninsubria.it>, MAtteo HCE > > Valsa > > sna writes: > >> hi all, > >> > >> We run BIND 9.3.4-P1.1 on Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (using the distribution's > >> package

Re: DDOS prevention - how to restrict queries to hint (root) zones?

2009-02-03 Thread David Forrest
On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Mark Andrews wrote: In message <1233658532.12933.42.ca...@muccalla.uninsubria.it>, MAtteo HCE Valsa sna writes: hi all, We run BIND 9.3.4-P1.1 on Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (using the distribution's package), that do both recursive queries for internal clients (with proper allow

Re: How many nameservers?

2009-02-03 Thread Danny Mayer
Ben Croswell wrote: > I have never heard of there being any downside to a large number of NS > records for a domain. > I know internally to my company we have large numbers of NS records for > the internal domains. > There is one. A large number of NS records won't fit into a UDP packet and you g

Re: How many nameservers?

2009-02-03 Thread Danny Mayer
Ben Croswell wrote: > I have never heard of there being any downside to a large number of NS > records for a domain. > I know internally to my company we have large numbers of NS records for > the internal domains. > There is one. A large number of NS records won't fit into a UDP packet and you g

Re: How many nameservers?

2009-02-03 Thread Ben Croswell
That was my understanding. It would only overflow if you actually had enough NS records that the NS records themselves couldn't fit in the answer section. -- -Ben Croswell On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 1:00 AM, Barry Margolin wrote: > In article , bsfin...@anl.gov wrote: > > > One downside - if you

Re: How many nameservers?

2009-02-03 Thread Chris Thompson
On Feb 2 2009, shulkae wrote: How may NS entries typically is allowed per zone? Is there a bind limit or does it cause any side effects if the slaves are geographically distributed ? We would like to setup one zone for my new group who have offices all over the world ? We are planning to use BI

Re: Caching-only Name server does Zone Updates

2009-02-03 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <001701c985ed$311198f0$f9281...@wipro74039c7ca>, "Ashish" writes: > Hi Barry, > > Thank you for your reply. > > There was a reverse lookup done as per the Debug content. > We have 4 Name servers so there should be 4 response containing NS records > in the Authority Section and the cor

Re: Caching-only Name server does Zone Updates

2009-02-03 Thread Chris Thompson
On Feb 3 2009, Mark Andrews wrote: Our configuration file is fairly simple (I have changed the domain name for security). You care about security yet you run BIND 4? If I was running a BIND 4 server, I would pretty damn paranoid about posting details about it. Or even admitting i

Re: DDOS prevention - how to restrict queries to hint (root) zones?

2009-02-03 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <1233658532.12933.42.ca...@muccalla.uninsubria.it>, MAtteo HCE Valsa sna writes: > hi all, > > We run BIND 9.3.4-P1.1 on Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (using the distribution's > package), that do both recursive queries for internal clients (with > proper allow-recursion clause) and authoritati

Re: [SPAM] Re: Split view multiple zones

2009-02-03 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> At Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:59:42 +0100, > Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > > > >Of course I could just copy and paste all the zones also in 'custom' > > > >view > > > >but it doubles the configuration size. > > > > On 27.01.09 17:26, Chris Burton wrote: > > > I've been using an include file for

RE: Caching-only Name server does Zone Updates

2009-02-03 Thread Ashish
Hi Barry, Thank you for your reply. There was a reverse lookup done as per the Debug content. We have 4 Name servers so there should be 4 response containing NS records in the Authority Section and the corresponding A records in the Additional Section. But we have thousands of statement like >

DDOS prevention - how to restrict queries to hint (root) zones?

2009-02-03 Thread MAtteo HCE Valsasna
hi all, We run BIND 9.3.4-P1.1 on Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (using the distribution's package), that do both recursive queries for internal clients (with proper allow-recursion clause) and authoritative servers for the institution's domain. There are reports of DDOS attacks based on DNS requests for

Re: "Fragment Flags Invalid"

2009-02-03 Thread Mark Andrews
In message , "Bind" writes: > > I installed fresh installation of solaris 10 on sparc machine with latest > bind v9, "latest bind v9" is imprecise. Is that Sun's latest or ISC's latest and which one of the 4 version we just released are you refering to? > this server

"Fragment Flags Invalid"

2009-02-03 Thread Bind
I installed fresh installation of solaris 10 on sparc machine with latest bind v9,this server is behind the hardware Firewall(policy from out to in is udp53&from in to out is any). But my cisco IDS always announces this alarm from my server to other external clients or servers: "Fragment Flags

Re: Caching-only Name server does Zone Updates

2009-02-03 Thread Barry Margolin
In article , "Ashish" wrote: > Thank you Mark, > > Doupdate is followed by lot of statements like > > Db_update > Match > > Please see the content below. > = > Doupdate(zone 0, savens x, flags y) > Doupdate: dname 21.in-