Re: Hostname Naming Compliance

2009-03-08 Thread Danny Mayer
Kevin Darcy wrote: > But, as far as I can tell, there's no *practical* reason to disallow > underscores, other than the fact that it may trip the standards-checking > code of some _other_ piece of software. So, piece of software A > disallows underscores because it's worried about causing a proble

Re: Zonefiles & CIDR

2009-03-08 Thread Darin
Stephen Ward wrote: Just a quick silly question. Running BIND9 (someone kindly raped to get it to work on windows) but it does not seem to support CIDR ranges. I mostly use it to block unwanted email by connecting IP (glorified reverse DNS). Rather than have to enter loads of lines to match

RE: Zonefiles & CIDR

2009-03-08 Thread Frank Bulk
There are other DNS servers that do a better job for RBLs. Frank -Original Message- From: bind-users-boun...@lists.isc.org [mailto:bind-users-boun...@lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of Stephen Ward Sent: Sunday, March 08, 2009 5:20 AM To: comp-protocols-dns-b...@isc.org Subject: Zonefiles & CIDR

Re: Zonefiles & CIDR

2009-03-08 Thread Barry Margolin
In article , Stephen Ward wrote: > Just a quick silly question. > > Running BIND9 (someone kindly raped to get it to work on windows) but it > does not seem to support CIDR ranges. I mostly use it to block unwanted > email by connecting IP (glorified reverse DNS). > > Rather than have to ent

Re: will blocking getting hammered by cache request do anything?

2009-03-08 Thread Mark Andrews
One thing I should add is that chasing down lack of BCP38 compliance isn't "wack-a-mole" though it may feel like it. This is a configuration change and as such tends to be premanent especially once it get written into the procedures documents. Mark -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Val

Re: will blocking getting hammered by cache request do anything?

2009-03-08 Thread David Forrest
On Sun, 8 Mar 2009, enigmedia wrote: Hi All: my 9.6.0 server is getting hammered by cache requests from a specific IP (62.109.4.89) which traces back to what looks like a DSL netblock in Russia: 05-Mar-2009 12:18:01.883 queries: info: client 62.109.4.89#53157: query: . IN NS + 05-Mar-2009 12:18

Re: will blocking getting hammered by cache request do anything?

2009-03-08 Thread enigmedia
> > Hi All: my 9.6.0 server is getting hammered by cache requests from a > > specific IP (62.109.4.89) which traces back to what looks like a DSL > > netblock in Russia: > > > > 05-Mar-2009 12:18:01.883 queries: info: client 62.109.4.89#53157: query: . > > IN NS + > > 05-Mar-2009 12:18:01.883 s

Zonefiles & CIDR

2009-03-08 Thread Stephen Ward
Just a quick silly question. Running BIND9 (someone kindly raped to get it to work on windows) but it does not seem to support CIDR ranges. I mostly use it to block unwanted email by connecting IP (glorified reverse DNS). Rather than have to enter loads of lines to match up wide spans of ranges

Re: connection timed out; no servers could be reached

2009-03-08 Thread Blah Blah Blah
On Sat, 07 Mar 2009 22:03:14 -0500, R Dicaire faxed us with > On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Bill Landry wrote: >> I have to admit that I am a bit baffled by this one. =A0I can query >> against my bandwidth providers name servers (Comcast) and get name >> resolution just fine for the hostnam