Re: RHEL, Centos, Fedora rpm vs ISC bind versions

2012-07-12 Thread ml
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 12/07/2012 20:12, Carl Byington a écrit : > For each major RHEL release, Redhat starts with some version of > ISC bind, and then backports patches into it from more recent > versions. This leads to an RPM containing about 50 patches. The > advantage

RHEL, Centos, Fedora rpm vs ISC bind versions

2012-07-12 Thread Carl Byington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 For each major RHEL release, Redhat starts with some version of ISC bind, and then backports patches into it from more recent versions. This leads to an RPM containing about 50 patches. The advantage of this approach is that customers with existing /et

Re: disabling "Any" requests

2012-07-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jul 12, 2012, at 7:16 AM, Lightner, Jeff wrote: > Your answer was clearly meant to be tongue in cheek but I'm not sure you > understood. Please allow me to reassure you that I understood the intent of the question. :-) The point was that if one isn't clear about what one should allow and wh

Re: disabling "Any" requests

2012-07-12 Thread Phil Mayers
On 12/07/12 16:48, sth...@nethelp.no wrote: Personally I don't know why "dig -t any" would be a problem. It's not exactly the same as doing an axfr transfer of the zone - it still only gets limited information. They're the current query type du jour for DDoS amplification attacks, which I ass

Re: disabling "Any" requests

2012-07-12 Thread sthaug
> > Personally I don't know why "dig -t any" would be a problem. It's > > not exactly the same as doing an axfr transfer of the zone - it still > > only gets limited information. > > They're the current query type du jour for DDoS amplification attacks, > which I assume the OP is experiencing.

Re: Operation Cancelled Error

2012-07-12 Thread Carsten Strotmann (private)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Ben, On 7/12/12 10:32 AM, Ben wrote: > Still, my question is open.. I'm not from ISC, but I have an idea what causes this (but I'm not an authoritative source). You can look up the BIND source code. Every caching DNS Server (BIND or other pro

Re: disabling "Any" requests

2012-07-12 Thread Phil Mayers
On 12/07/12 15:16, Lightner, Jeff wrote: Personally I don't know why "dig -t any" would be a problem. It's not exactly the same as doing an axfr transfer of the zone - it still only gets limited information. They're the current query type du jour for DDoS amplification attacks, which I assu

RE: disabling "Any" requests

2012-07-12 Thread Lightner, Jeff
Your answer was clearly meant to be tongue in cheek but I'm not sure you understood. The OP wasn't asking how to stop all (any) lookups - it was how to stop "dig -t any" which isn't the same thing at all. Presumably they still want to allow dig -t mx, dig www... etc... Personally I don't know

Re: Operation Cancelled Error

2012-07-12 Thread Eivind Olsen
Den 12. juli 2012 kl. 10:32 skrev Ben : > > How to check from 10 queries, which are on cache and which are not ? The easy way is by knowing what you ask for :-) For example, if you want to measure your nameservers potential speed, you could ask only for things it has in its cache. How do y

Re: disabling "Any" requests

2012-07-12 Thread Phil Mayers
On 12/07/12 14:38, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jul 12, 2012, at 2:27 AM, Dns Administrator wrote: Hi bind-users, please excuse my ignorance being a novice to dns, but is there some way of disabling or choking "Any" type requests? This has been discussed on the list recently - see the archives

Re: disabling "Any" requests

2012-07-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jul 12, 2012, at 2:27 AM, Dns Administrator wrote: > Hi bind-users, >please excuse my ignorance being a novice to dns, but is there some way of > disabling or choking "Any" type requests? Sure-- a firewall or even taking a pair of wire-cutters to the ethernet cable will accomplish that.

Re: recursive-clients recommended values

2012-07-12 Thread Niall O'Reilly
On 12 Jul 2012, at 03:21, blrmaani wrote: > I searched earlier posts but noticed that people are recommending it to just > increase it to suppress the errors in log. > > Any pointers on this? If it's set too low for your normal operating circumstances, you do need to increase it.

disabling "Any" requests

2012-07-12 Thread Dns Administrator
Hi bind-users, please excuse my ignorance being a novice to dns, but is there some way of disabling or choking "Any" type requests? Very best regards Peter ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this l

Re: Operation Cancelled Error

2012-07-12 Thread SM
Hi Ben, At 16:49 11-07-2012, Ben wrote: I am doing load testing on our local caching dns.But while doing it , i added google dns and some other dns ips as forwarder to test QPS. It seems to me that it is not a good idea to do load testing on some third-party server. I am confusing that those

Re: Operation Cancelled Error

2012-07-12 Thread Ben
How to check from 10 queries, which are on cache and which are not ? Still, my question is open.. Dear ISC team, can you please suggest what happend with my caching DNS load test.? I mean, want to find root cause of it. Den 12. juli 2012 kl. 01:49 skrev Ben : If someone share his expe

Re: BIND 9.9.1-P1 reload bug

2012-07-12 Thread Cathy Almond
On 12/07/12 08:20, Michael Hoskins (michoski) wrote: > stupid question: i spent all of five minutes looking around isc.org -- but > i did click all the top-level bind-related links, and couldn't find a > pointer to rt to search for this ticket. does it require a support > contract, is it internal-

Re: Survey - how many people running ISP nameservers define "minimal-responses" - was Re: What is the deal on missing "Authority Section" and "additional section" from google's DNS servers?

2012-07-12 Thread Barry Margolin
In article , Mark Andrews wrote: > In message , Barry > Margolin writes: > > In article , > > "Michael Hoskins (michoski)" wrote: > > > > > while it's largely personal preference -- i generally like to "be > > > conservative in what i send, and liberal in what i accept": > > > > > > http://

Re: Operation Cancelled Error

2012-07-12 Thread Eivind Olsen
Den 12. juli 2012 kl. 01:49 skrev Ben : > If someone share his experience with it, What are the maximum QPS handled by > bind? that is good to understand more. Well, it depends. If you test with a freshly restarted BIND (nothing cached yet), and ask for only external data, you will get one res

Re: BIND 9.9.1-P1 reload bug

2012-07-12 Thread Michael Hoskins (michoski)
stupid question: i spent all of five minutes looking around isc.org -- but i did click all the top-level bind-related links, and couldn't find a pointer to rt to search for this ticket. does it require a support contract, is it internal-only, or am i just looking in the wrong place? i wanted to