Re: T_ANY

On 3/20/2010 5:29 PM, Tony Finch wrote: ANY queries are supposed to be used for debugging not for normal operations. At the risk of nitpicking your use of the term "supposed to be"... "ANY" queries (aka QTYPE=*), have pretty much been reduced to a mere debugging tool, because of the stan

RE: how to ignore external queries?

This is an external option. Still good one, for sure. I was just thinking if there is a way to do it on BIND options. Thank you, Julian See the documentation on using the "blackhole" option in the BIND ARM blackhole Specifies a list of addresses that the server will not accept queries from or

Re: DDNS issues

Again, sorry for the cross post here... One other piece of information here that I failed to provide: my workaround for the time being, which may shed some light on the solution, maybe... So, when I run into this problem, I need it repaired asap, as it is breaking POTS to our customers.

DDNS issues

First of all, forgive the cross post... You will understand why in a minute. I am experiencing a problem with DDNS. We have access equipment that is performing DHCP snooping, and adding circuit and client identifiers for CALEA purposes to the DHCP conversations. Also, we make decisions

Re: BIND doesn't run on XP

Hello, again, First at all, thank you for your answers. I'm sure that system is a WXP SP3, because of I installed, and in 'System Properties' shows 'Windows XP Professional Version 2002 Service Pack 3', with console 'ver' command shows 'Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]' and with TweakU

Re: how to ignore external queries?

This is an external option. Still good one, for sure. I was just thinking if there is a way to do it on BIND options. Thank you, Julian - Original Message - From: "Leonardo Rodrigues" To: "ML bind" Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2010 4:29 PM Subject: Re: how to ignore external queries?

RE: T_ANY

Anyway his issue wasn't with Qmail (if it had been internal lookups would have failed as well). It was before that while trying to do a DNS resolution. As OP indicated it turned out it was a rule in his PIX blocking it from external so it wasn't really a BIND issue either. -Original Message

Re: bind 9.6.2 with threads hangs

2010/3/22 Cathy Almond > Fabien Seisen wrote: > > yes, max-cache-size 512M but named process takes ~900MB > > The extra memory is for keeping track of recursive clients (i.e. > in-progress client queries). > ok This doesn't sound like a hugely loaded server, exact, on my own test (with "real

Re: bind 9.6.2 with threads hangs

Fabien Seisen wrote: > >> To the OP: do you specify max_cache_size? If not, what does the memory >> consumption of BIND look like when it gets into the non-functional state? >> > > yes, max-cache-size 512M but named process takes ~900MB > The extra memory is for keeping track of recursive clie

Re: bind 9.6.2 with threads hangs

2010/3/19 Chris Thompson > On Mar 19 2010, David Ford wrote: > > BIND has long had issues with threading since it started supporting >> threaded operation. I recommend you simply recompile without thread >> support. >> >> I retry compiling with thread support about twice a year and as of late >