Re: ARPA entries for a host with multiple IPs

2009-02-25 Thread Barry Margolin
In article , shulkae wrote: > Question on BIND 9 running on FreeBSD. > > My customer requested to add multiple IPs to a single name so that he > can use the round-robin feature of BIND to load-balance the service. > > The entry we added looks something as below: > > # more db.myzone > .. > ..

Re: single-character host names

2009-02-25 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <6.2.5.6.2.20090225140635.02c02...@resistor.net>, SM writes: > At 13:46 25-02-2009, Mike Bernhardt wrote: > >I've been looking into the RFCs regarding whether or not single-character > >(alpha) host names are allowed or not. RFC 952 says no, but 2181 says that > >host names must between

Re: how to clear resolver cache?

2009-02-25 Thread Kevin Darcy
online-reg wrote: Hi All: Bind 9.5.0-p1 on Fedora...how do I clear the cache? I updated a FUBAR MX record at godaddy.com's NS, with a TTL of 3600. My local BIND seems to be caching the record after I updated at godaddy. When I query the upstream NS that the local server uses, it returns the

Re: Hostname Naming Compliance

2009-02-25 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <49a55a7f.8010...@ou.edu>, Peter Laws writes: > Mark Andrews wrote: > > When does it stop? What will be the next character you > > "just have to have"? At the moment you have 1 inter label > > seperator and 1 intra label seperator. That should be > > enough for anyone

how to clear resolver cache?

2009-02-25 Thread online-reg
Hi All: Bind 9.5.0-p1 on Fedora...how do I clear the cache? I updated a FUBAR MX record at godaddy.com's NS, with a TTL of 3600. My local BIND seems to be caching the record after I updated at godaddy. When I query the upstream NS that the local server uses, it returns the updated MX record,

Re: File descriptors

2009-02-25 Thread JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉
At Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:20:52 -0500, Todd wrote: > My apologies again, you are correct. I ran a named -v on the boxes, > forgetting that we were directly calling bind in a non-path. We are > in fact using 9.4.2-P2 on everything, patched to protect against > kaminsky. We will look at an upgrade

Re: single-character host names

2009-02-25 Thread SM
At 13:46 25-02-2009, Mike Bernhardt wrote: I've been looking into the RFCs regarding whether or not single-character (alpha) host names are allowed or not. RFC 952 says no, but 2181 says that host names must between 1 and 63 octets in length, which would appear to say "yes." Section 2.1 of RFC

Re: single-character host names

2009-02-25 Thread Matthew Pounsett
On 25-Feb-2009, at 17:14, Evan Hunt wrote: Actually, to be lawyerly about it, while RFC952 says you can't have a single-character name, it also defines names as including periods to delimit domain-name components. So, "m.google.com." is really a 13-character name, with a single-character compo

Re: single-character host names

2009-02-25 Thread Matthew Pounsett
On 25-Feb-2009, at 16:46, Mike Bernhardt wrote: So what is the accepted view on this currently? Is there another RFC that has made it OK now? I'm not going to say this definitively, because I'm not certain, but I think 952 may have been updated by a later RFC. Certainly there are sever

Re: statschannel assertion failure

2009-02-25 Thread JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉
At Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:17:27 -0600, Timothy Holtzen wrote: > I applied the patch on my test system and ran my little test using wget > and this is the output I got in the log > > Feb 25 13:51:12 arthur named[17030]: libxml2 Error: Input is not proper > UTF-8, indicate encoding ! > Feb 25 13:51:1

Re: single-character host names

2009-02-25 Thread Evan Hunt
> Certainly, several large organizations (Google, Yahoo and CNN, to name 3) > are using at least 1: "m" Not to mention all the root-server operators. So the rule clearly isn't being enforced very well. :) Actually, to be lawyerly about it, while RFC952 says you can't have a single-character name

single-character host names

2009-02-25 Thread Mike Bernhardt
I've been looking into the RFCs regarding whether or not single-character (alpha) host names are allowed or not. RFC 952 says no, but 2181 says that host names must between 1 and 63 octets in length, which would appear to say "yes." Certainly, several large organizations (Google, Yahoo and CNN, to

Re: File descriptors

2009-02-25 Thread Todd
I've done some more digging today - I have found a couple 9.2.4 servers that had the same file descriptors problem at the same time as the 9.4.2-p2 servers. Feb 24 13:28:48 dns01 named[29292]: socket: too many open file descriptors Both servers named processes seem to have 2048 FD's available: #

Re: No cache in a forward name server

2009-02-25 Thread Kevin Darcy
Luis Silva wrote: Hi all! I read in some previous posts that you don't agree of not having cache in a name server. The problem is that I wanted to have a bind server resolving external queries and doing cache but not for a specific zone that I use "forward". client->ns#1(forward)->ns#2 Tha

Re: statschannel assertion failure

2009-02-25 Thread Timothy Holtzen
I applied the patch on my test system and ran my little test using wget and this is the output I got in the log Feb 25 13:51:12 arthur named[17030]: libxml2 Error: Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding ! Feb 25 13:51:12 arthur named[17030]: libxml2 Error: xmlTextWriterWriteDocCallback : XML

No cache in a forward name server

2009-02-25 Thread Luis Silva
Hi all! I read in some previous posts that you don't agree of not having cache in a name server. The problem is that I wanted to have a bind server resolving external queries and doing cache but not for a specific zone that I use "forward". client->ns#1(forward)->ns#2 That specific zone is priva

Re: named reload does not reload correct

2009-02-25 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Martin Moerman wrote: > Hello, > > I have an issue with 9.5.3 on which I see that bind does a reload of the > named.conf but does not reload the include files which are in named.conf 9.5.3 doesn't exist. > Situation: > I do an add or change of name / ip in Plesk, plesk nic

Finding and culling unused entries from zone files

2009-02-25 Thread Keith Christian
I'm looking for a method to cull out unused DNS entries from zone files. Eventually, entries we add to zone files entries fall into disuse. Usually the customers never report when this happens, so the zone files grow and grow and grow with "cruft." Can any of you share recommendations? I'm runni

Re: Hostname Naming Compliance

2009-02-25 Thread Peter Laws
Mark Andrews wrote: When does it stop? What will be the next character you "just have to have"? At the moment you have 1 inter label seperator and 1 intra label seperator. That should be enough for anyone. Like 640k of memory. Unicode is coming (as fast as I

Re: Hostname Naming Compliance

2009-02-25 Thread Peter Laws
Jeff Lightner wrote: And of course you can legitimately say it is a "Standard" even if it isn't enforced by the software. Your argument would be that people implementing new servers or attempting to access the systems wouldn't be able to do so because they wouldn't have added the "exception to

Re: Unexpected error question

2009-02-25 Thread Stacey Jonathan Marshall
Just following this question up. The answer was that the user specified in the smf_method(5) property needs to have solaris.smf.manage.bind authorization to be able to disable the service. I've opened a bug to update the Sun manual page, CR 6809900 Created, P4 manpage/section1m named(1M) shoul

named reload does not reload correct

2009-02-25 Thread Martin Moerman
Hello, I have an issue with 9.5.3 on which I see that bind does a reload of the named.conf but does not reload the include files which are in named.conf Situation: I do an add or change of name / ip in Plesk, plesk nicely rsyncs the zone files to our two name servers. nameserver 2 reloads corre

ARPA entries for a host with multiple IPs

2009-02-25 Thread shulkae
Question on BIND 9 running on FreeBSD. My customer requested to add multiple IPs to a single name so that he can use the round-robin feature of BIND to load-balance the service. The entry we added looks something as below: # more db.myzone .. .. ws .. .. So when my customer query the ws, he

Re: File descriptors

2009-02-25 Thread Todd
My apologies again, you are correct. I ran a named -v on the boxes, forgetting that we were directly calling bind in a non-path. We are in fact using 9.4.2-P2 on everything, patched to protect against kaminsky. We will look at an upgrade program to get these boxes (about 80 servers, unfortunatel