Re: Upstart job for BIND9

2012-11-29 Thread Noel Butler
On Thu, 2012-11-29 at 13:35 +0100, Carsten Strotmann wrote: > Hello Alexander, > > Alexander Gurvitz writes: > > > Carsten, > > > > The script in my original question (it's in the P.S. at the bottom of > > my first mail) seem to work for me. > > Ahh, thanks, my Emacs was hiding that :) > >

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2012-11-29 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Nov 29, 2012, at 3:34 PM, Jose Manuel Delgado G. wrote: > about the other question, as to reduce the response time of my server when > the domain does not exist? BIND implements negative caching of NXDOMAIN responses: % dig www.does.not.exist. @localhost [ ... ] ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY,

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2012-11-29 Thread Jose Manuel Delgado G.
thanks chuck, about the other question, as to reduce the response time of my server when the domain does not exist? Thanks a lot! JM 2012/11/29 Chuck Swiger > Hi-- > > On Nov 29, 2012, at 3:00 PM, Jose Manuel Delgado G. wrote: > > I have the following problem in resolving my DNS using Bind 9,

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2012-11-29 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Nov 29, 2012, at 3:00 PM, Jose Manuel Delgado G. wrote: > I have the following problem in resolving my DNS using Bind 9, sends me an > error connection time out, no servers Could be reached. that way I can avoid > giving these errors and how I can reduce the time of the response? > > th

Re: Upstart job for BIND9

2012-11-29 Thread Alexander Gurvitz
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > famous assertion failures? What system do you run the BIND on? Shouldn't > you > better upgrade to version that has no famous assertion failures? Well, of course it's extremely exaggerated, sorry if I offended someone. But crashes

Re: Upstart job for BIND9

2012-11-29 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 29.11.12 14:03, Alexander Gurvitz wrote: It will run bind on runlevels 2345, stop bind on other runlevels, but the most important - respawn it once it stops with one it's famous assertion failures :). famous assertion failures? What system do you run the BIND on? Shouldn't you better upgrade

Re: Upstart job for BIND9

2012-11-29 Thread Carsten Strotmann
Hello Alexander, Alexander Gurvitz writes: > Carsten, > > The script in my original question (it's in the P.S. at the bottom of > my first mail) seem to work for me. Ahh, thanks, my Emacs was hiding that :) > (I can't decide which one is better: bind.conf, bind9.conf or > named.conf :) I w

Re: Upstart job for BIND9

2012-11-29 Thread Alexander Gurvitz
Carsten, The script in my original question (it's in the P.S. at the bottom of my first mail) seem to work for me. It does not cover all the extra logic of the ubuntu default init.d/bind9, but I personally don't need that (ubuntu script may update resolv.conf, and also checks if there's a network

Re: Upstart job for BIND9

2012-11-29 Thread Carsten Strotmann
Hello Alexander, Alexander Gurvitz writes: > Hello. > > I'm trying to run a bind9 from an upstart job instead of an init.d > script. > I'm a bit confused if I should "expect fork" or "expect daemon". It > seems > to work with "expect fork", though somehow I don't feel convinced. > > (Upstart mu

OT - Dns test Q/A

2012-11-29 Thread Chiesa Stefano
Hello all. I created an application to delegate zone management to collegues that are used to ask changes to that zones. I would set up a small "zone administration test" to verify a minimal dns knowledge (right use of main RR such A-CNAME-MX.) Can you suggest me a document from which I can ex

Upstart job for BIND9

2012-11-29 Thread Alexander Gurvitz
Hello. I'm trying to run a bind9 from an upstart job instead of an init.d script. I'm a bit confused if I should "expect fork" or "expect daemon". It seems to work with "expect fork", though somehow I don't feel convinced. (Upstart must know how the daemon forks - if it forks once, "expect fork"