Re: dns-sec and Maintaining Human Sanity

2010-08-06 Thread Tony Finch
On Fri, 6 Aug 2010, Martin McCormick wrote: > I have started looking at various ways for our > organization to begin using dns-sec as this appears to be a high > management priority and it will eventually become necessary to > operate. We have a fairly simple structure with a official master

Re: Forwarding to two servers

2010-08-06 Thread Tony Finch
On Thu, 5 Aug 2010, Lyle Giese wrote: > > zone "mydomain.com"{ > type forward; > forward only; > forwarders { ;}; }; > > The priv server needs to be authorative(and probably master) for > mydomain.com. As I understand it, BIND makes recursive queries to forwarding servers. If the target is authori

Re: Forwarding to two servers

2010-08-06 Thread Sten Carlsen
On 06/08/10 19:59, Kevin Darcy wrote: > On 8/6/2010 1:05 PM, CLOSE Dave (DAE) wrote: >> Joseph S D Yao wrote: >> >> >>> If you have two forwarders, as you listed, your server will try to >>> forward first to one and then to the other. If it gets any answer at >>> all from one - even an error

Re: Forwarding to two servers

2010-08-06 Thread Kevin Darcy
On 8/6/2010 1:05 PM, CLOSE Dave (DAE) wrote: Joseph S D Yao wrote: If you have two forwarders, as you listed, your server will try to forward first to one and then to the other. If it gets any answer at all from one - even an error answer - it will not try the other. So forwarding w

Re: Forwarding to two servers

2010-08-06 Thread CLOSE Dave (DAE)
Joseph S D Yao wrote: > If you have two forwarders, as you listed, your server will try to > forward first to one and then to the other. If it gets any answer at > all from one - even an error answer - it will not try the other. So forwarding works exactly the same as listing both servers in re

Re: Question on query-source, transfer-source, notify-source

2010-08-06 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <20100804184239.4ee3b47...@britaine.cis.anl.gov>, Barry Finkel write s: > Another question about query-source: > > Is there a difference between > > query-source address 1.2.3.4; > and > query-source 1.2.3.4; No. > My reading of the ARM simplies that the two are the same,

Re: dns-sec and Maintaining Human Sanity

2010-08-06 Thread Phil Mayers
On 06/08/10 12:24, Martin McCormick wrote: The one thing that impresses me about dns-sec is that it appears to be one of those things that will probably work fine after installation but getting there may be an adventure to put it mildly. My advice is to investigate upgrading to Bind 9.

Re: dns-sec and Maintaining Human Sanity

2010-08-06 Thread Martin McCormick
Niobos writes: > Definitely consider the 9.7 series! You can enable auto-dnssec which > will maintain your signatures for you out-of-the-box. It also supports > key rollover, but IIRC doesn't generate new keys at this moment. That's not much of a problem. Thanks for reminding me of 9.7. Martin Mc

Re: dns-sec and Maintaining Human Sanity

2010-08-06 Thread Jaap Akkerhuis
That is, if one can get the latest version to compile under FreeBSD8.0. So far, the configure process is one dependency after another and I have yet to see it actually finish so that is shades of years gone by when installing software was an art on good days. Use the port, see

Re: dns-sec and Maintaining Human Sanity

2010-08-06 Thread Niobos
Hi, On 2010-08-06 13:24, Martin McCormick wrote: > We are upgrading all DNS and DHCP servers to FreeBSD8.0 > and my plan was to use bind9.6x. If there is a better version for > dns-sec, best to plan to use it now in order to sleigh as much > of this dragon which is breathing fire on the edge

RE: dns-sec and Maintaining Human Sanity

2010-08-06 Thread Atkins, Brian (GD/VA-NSOC)
I'm running 9.6 in our lab environment with DNSSEC enabled, not much difficulty at all. To make it even easier, you might want to look at the Webmin BIND module. It makes it even easier. Also, I went to ISC's BIND deployment workshop and found it very insightful. Brian -Original Message

dns-sec and Maintaining Human Sanity

2010-08-06 Thread Martin McCormick
I have started looking at various ways for our organization to begin using dns-sec as this appears to be a high management priority and it will eventually become necessary to operate. We have a fairly simple structure with a official master and slave with dynamic DHCP continuously updating