Re: Best Practices Query Logging, On or Off ?

2010-11-21 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 22/11/10 5:05 PM, Doug Barton wrote: > On 11/21/2010 21:58, Ben McGinnes wrote: >> On 22/11/10 7:12 AM, Doug Barton wrote: >>> On Thu, 18 Nov 2010, CT wrote: >>> - BIND 9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-4.P1.el5_4.2 >>> >>> Really old, definitely needs upgrading. >> >> That just means they're running R

Re: Best Practices Query Logging, On or Off ?

2010-11-21 Thread Doug Barton
On 11/21/2010 21:58, Ben McGinnes wrote: On 22/11/10 7:12 AM, Doug Barton wrote: On Thu, 18 Nov 2010, CT wrote: - BIND 9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-4.P1.el5_4.2 Really old, definitely needs upgrading. That just means they're running RHEL 5 or CentOS 5. If they have a support contract with Red Ha

Re: Best Practices Query Logging, On or Off ?

2010-11-21 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 22/11/10 7:12 AM, Doug Barton wrote: > On Thu, 18 Nov 2010, CT wrote: > >> - BIND 9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-4.P1.el5_4.2 > > Really old, definitely needs upgrading. That just means they're running RHEL 5 or CentOS 5. If they have a support contract with Red Hat, they may not be able to upgrade w

Re: named won't restart

2010-11-21 Thread Nate Itkin
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 01:49:35PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > On Thu, 11 Nov 2010, Carlos Vicente wrote: >> Has anybody had this problem? >> # /etc/init.d/named restart >> Stopping named: . [FAILED] >> Starting named: named: already running

Re: named won't restart

2010-11-21 Thread Doug Barton
On Thu, 11 Nov 2010, Carlos Vicente wrote: Has anybody had this problem? # /etc/init.d/named restart Stopping named: . [FAILED] Starting named: named: already running [ OK ] Not sure what mechanism your linux distro is using, but

Re: dynamic updates via libbind.

2010-11-21 Thread Doug Barton
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010, Jack Tavares wrote: I am currently using libbind to do dynamic updates in "C". I have looked in the bind 9.7.x source and I don't see a replacement mechanism for this. libbind is now its own package, separate from the BIND sources. Look carefully on the ISC web page und

Re: IPAM advantages (was Re: MySQL BIND SDB)

2010-11-21 Thread Doug Barton
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010, Gary Wallis wrote: (If we use FOSS BIND why should we support anti FOSS businesses like many mentioned above?) Because business is business, and using the right tool for the job is more important than adhering to the purity of an ideology developed in the absence of real

Re: Best Practices Query Logging, On or Off ?

2010-11-21 Thread Doug Barton
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010, CT wrote: I am looking for a best practices for dns query logging This is an area where "best practices" are really in the eye of the beholder. If you believe that there may be utility for your site in doing this, give it a try. :) My advice is that you enable it on a

Re: High named CPU every 10 minutes?

2010-11-21 Thread Doug Barton
+1 The FreeBSD base system BIND is there primarily to provide a local resolver. In the event that you are doing more serious DNS work (such as authoritative DNS, a resolver for the local network, etc.) the expectation is that you will update to a more recent version of BIND. Using the ports t

catchall, if domain doesn't exist?

2010-11-21 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
I was wondering if it's possible to return a "catchall" A record for domains which bind can't resolve? I'm able to configure a "catchall" bind configuration where bind would return the same A record for all queries; but I'd rather it returns it for domains it can't resolve. -- Tomasz Chmiel