Re: Performance Tuning RHEL 5 and Bind

2013-10-22 Thread Alan Clegg
On Oct 22, 2013, at 8:29 PM, brett smith wrote: > Yes tuning off IPTABLES conn-tracking makes a huge difference. I also > followed: > > https://access.redhat.com/site/solutions/304713 > https://access.redhat.com/site/solutions/168483 > > I still see some SYN_SENT from Windows PC's on tcp port

Re: Performance Tuning RHEL 5 and Bind

2013-10-22 Thread brett smith
Yes tuning off IPTABLES conn-tracking makes a huge difference. I also followed: https://access.redhat.com/site/solutions/304713 https://access.redhat.com/site/solutions/168483 I still see some SYN_SENT from Windows PC's on tcp port 53 on the DNS cache server. Thank You, Brett On Sun, Oct 20,

Re: Performance Tuning RHEL 5 and Bind

2013-10-22 Thread Kevin Darcy
Are these queries mostly for names in an Active Directory domain? The default for Active Directory is for *every* Domain Controller to register NS records at the apex of the AD domain. Pretty soon, for any reasonably-sized AD infrastructure, all of those NSes cause *all* queries for *any* name

Re: Performance Tuning RHEL 5 and Bind

2013-10-22 Thread Mike Hoskins (michoski)
-Original Message- From: Alan Clegg Date: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 7:44 AM To: "bind-users@lists.isc.org" Subject: Re: Performance Tuning RHEL 5 and Bind >On Oct 21, 2013, at 9:47 AM, wbr...@e1b.org wrote: > >>> From: Alan Clegg >> >>> Fix your windows clients. >> >> You can't fix s

Re: Test logging

2013-10-22 Thread Tony Finch
Paweł Ch. wrote: > Can I request server with special packet which named add entry to it? You can make named log something under the security category by sending a query with a TSIG key, like $ dig -y abc123:abc123abc123 . Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finchhttp://dotat.at/ Forties, Cromarty: East,

Test logging

2013-10-22 Thread Paweł Ch .
Hi list, How to test that this logging works: logging { channel security_file { file "/var/log/named/security.log" versions 3 size 30m; severity info; print-time yes; }; category security { security_file; }; The file is created /var/log/named/security.log but it is empty.

Re: Performance Tuning RHEL 5 and Bind

2013-10-22 Thread Alan Clegg
On Oct 21, 2013, at 9:47 AM, wbr...@e1b.org wrote: >> From: Alan Clegg > >> Fix your windows clients. > > You can't fix stupid. I have lots of windows clients and they don't exhibit this "feature". There's something wrong on the windows clients and it's not the norm. To be honest, recent w