chrooting BIND [was -Re: Here I am again, hat in hand with humble demeanor.......]

2010-09-24 Thread Scott Haneda
On Sep 24, 2010, at 12:51 PM, Tony Finch wrote: > A default build of bind expects to find it in /etc/named.conf > If you are running chrooted it needs to be copied into the chroot. Most systems these days have packages of BIND. Those that do tend to have BIND-chroot as an option for install.

UTF in TXT RR

2010-09-24 Thread dj4killer
Hello, I have few questions about TXT RR. Can I store non-ASCII text in the record? If I do it with nsupdate, record is saved correctly (UTF is converted into two bytes - \x\y - x- first byte, y - second byte). But it's correct? Can I do this? Or is it right to save only ASCII text? Thanks for

Re: Here I am again, hat in hand with humble demeanor.......

2010-09-24 Thread Tony Finch
On Fri, 24 Sep 2010, Stewart Dean wrote: > 1) I assume the canonical location of named.conf is always in /etc? A default build of bind expects to find it in /etc/named.conf If you are running chrooted it needs to be copied into the chroot. > 2) My home-built binary is nearly 7MB, while the CentO

RE: repository for zone files

2010-09-24 Thread Lightner, Jeff
And of course VMWare is 80% owned by EMC: http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2010/03/03/emc_to_maintain_80_vmware_stake/ -Original Message- From: Dale Kiefling [mailto:dale.kiefl...@cbsinteractive.com] Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 1:46 PM To: Lightner, Jeff Cc: dhottin

Re: bind 9.6-esv-r1 segfault

2010-09-24 Thread Sergey V. Lobanov
Some info from the core dump: General info: Core was generated by `/usr/local/sbin/named -4 -c /etc/named.conf -t /var/lib/named -u named -n 4'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. #0 0x0813d4d7 in resquery_udpconnected (task=0x8230ef88, event=0xa5bbf068) at resolver.c:1

Re: Here I am again, hat in hand with humble demeanor.......

2010-09-24 Thread David Miller
To answer some of your direct questions directly: On 9/24/2010 11:58 AM, Stewart Dean wrote: More questions...(CentOS 5.5, bind-9.7.1-P2) 1) I assume the canonical location of named.conf is always in /etc? Nobody (Little grasshopper from ORA, google) says so, but there are intimations here

Re: Here I am again, hat in hand with humble demeanor.......

2010-09-24 Thread Phil Mayers
On 24/09/10 17:22, Lars Hecking wrote: Stewart Dean writes: More questions...(CentOS 5.5, bind-9.7.1-P2) The arguably easiest way to deal with this, if you prefer a recent version of bind on CentOS, is to grab the most recent srpm from the updates/testing directory of your nearest Fedo

Re: Here I am again, hat in hand with humble demeanor.......

2010-09-24 Thread Lars Hecking
Stewart Dean writes: > More questions...(CentOS 5.5, bind-9.7.1-P2) The arguably easiest way to deal with this, if you prefer a recent version of bind on CentOS, is to grab the most recent srpm from the updates/testing directory of your nearest Fedora mirror and simply* rebuild it. Current Fe

Here I am again, hat in hand with humble demeanor.......

2010-09-24 Thread Stewart Dean
More questions...(CentOS 5.5, bind-9.7.1-P2) 1) I assume the canonical location of named.conf is always in /etc? Nobody (Little grasshopper from ORA, google) says so, but there are intimations here and there. 2) My home-built binary is nearly 7MB, while the CentOS distro binary is about 400

RE: repository for zone files

2010-09-24 Thread dhottinger
Quoting "Lightner, Jeff" : Technical note: I said "Netware" not "Novell". As you note Novell is now doing SuSE Linux. I believe there are still people using Netware but then again there are probably still people using CP/M somewhere. :-) -Original Message- From: bind-users-bounces+jl

RE: repository for zone files

2010-09-24 Thread Lightner, Jeff
Technical note: I said "Netware" not "Novell". As you note Novell is now doing SuSE Linux. I believe there are still people using Netware but then again there are probably still people using CP/M somewhere. :-) -Original Message- From: bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water@lists.isc.

RE: repository for zone files

2010-09-24 Thread dhottinger
Quoting "Lightner, Jeff" : Up until Bill came out with NT with the stated intention of killing UNIX I was somewhat of an M$ fan (over Apple that is). All he really succeeded in killing was Netware. Now years later Apple is running a UNIX based OS - go figure. -Original Message- From:

Re: All zone blocks for "public" view should be listed here in "internal"too!

2010-09-24 Thread Kevin Darcy
If you want that level of separation, why not go even further and have a separate instance of named running on a separate address? I assume you have a way to selectively tell clients to use a different address for DNS resolution, either through DHCP, /etc/resolv.conf or interactively via the co

Re: repository for zone files

2010-09-24 Thread dhottinger
Quoting Stewart Dean : On AIX, I'm used to /etc/dns. CentOS seems to place in /var/named. Is there any blessed, bestofallpossibleworlds place for the zone files. I'm moving our DNS from from AIX to CentOS/Fedora. I'm inclined to create the /etc/dns dir but maybe it'd be better to put it in

RE: repository for zone files

2010-09-24 Thread Lightner, Jeff
Up until Bill came out with NT with the stated intention of killing UNIX I was somewhat of an M$ fan (over Apple that is). All he really succeeded in killing was Netware. Now years later Apple is running a UNIX based OS - go figure. -Original Message- From: bind-users-bounces+jlightn

Re: repository for zone files

2010-09-24 Thread Stewart Dean
My thanks to everyone that answered for their wit and wisdom, both of which are good to find when joining a list. /var/named it is. its UNIX fragmentation all over again. 8) Remember when Windows NT was begun as the Great White Hope that would have all the functionality (and more!) of Un

RE: repository for zone files

2010-09-24 Thread Lightner, Jeff
No the prior poster was correct - you can do chroot or SELinux or both. While it is true that RedHat teaches SELinux and ships it you can always disable it if you prefer not to use it. You are asked during the install of the OS and you can disable it or enable it any time you want after the insta