Re: Wildcard oddity

2014-09-29 Thread Mukund Sivaraman
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 08:52:41PM -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > *.colors IN A 127.0.0.2 > *.jason.purple.colors IN A 127.0.0.3 > ; *.purple.colors IN A 127.0.0.4 > === > > Note that that last line is commented out. > >

Re: Wildcard oddity

2014-09-29 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <20703.1412049...@server1.tristatelogic.com>, "Ronald F. Guilmette" writes: > > > My apologies for my earlier, arguably off-topic questions. > > Now I have a real honest-to-goodness BIND question. > > I have the following simple zone file installed as "test0.tristatelogic.com": >

Wildcard oddity

2014-09-29 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
My apologies for my earlier, arguably off-topic questions. Now I have a real honest-to-goodness BIND question. I have the following simple zone file installed as "test0.tristatelogic.com": === $TTL 3600 @ IN SOA

Re: Diagnostic help

2014-09-29 Thread Bill Christensen
So if my server is authoritative for MyDomain.com, should Joe Sixpak be able to resolve it via whatever DNS he's using, as mine is currently set up? Do I need to change it to |allow-query { any; };| in order to allow that to happen? Will my restriction on recursion keep the riffraff t

Re: Diagnostic help

2014-09-29 Thread Ben Croswell
The default for allow query is local host local nets. Basically the server itself and directly connected networks On Sep 29, 2014 8:03 PM, "Bill Christensen" wrote: > Hi folks, > > Something got sideways on one of my DNS servers, and I would appreciate > some help in figuring out what's going o

Diagnostic help

2014-09-29 Thread Bill Christensen
Hi folks, Something got sideways on one of my DNS servers, and I would appreciate some help in figuring out what's going on. I'm running BIND 9.10.1. This server is authoritative master for a number of domains. First off, I may have the allow-query set incorrectly. Currently I have: acl

Re: Maximum DNS packet size?

2014-09-29 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <70279.1412020...@server1.tristatelogic.com>, "Ronald F. Guilmette" writes: > > My apologies if this question might also be considered a bit > off-topic for this list. > > Is the maximum possible size of a DNS packet (just the payload part... > not including IP and UDP headers) 64k b

Maximum DNS packet size?

2014-09-29 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
My apologies if this question might also be considered a bit off-topic for this list. Is the maximum possible size of a DNS packet (just the payload part... not including IP and UDP headers) 64k bytes? I have some old code which assumes that, perhaps incorrectly. ___

Re: Punycode questions

2014-09-29 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message , Tony Finch wrote: >Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: >> To be more specific and concrete about it, here is a small >> example Perl program I wrote: >> >>ftp://ftp.tristatelogic.com/pub/punybug.pl >> >> When *I* run this, it prints out several "Invalid punycode!" >> errors. > >I think

Re: Punycode questions

2014-09-29 Thread Tony Finch
Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > In a nutshell, I'd just like to know whether or not Punycode > encoded strings may ever validly contain either (a) leading > periods or else (b) two consecutive periods. Would any strings > that contain either of those things be considered to be "valid" > Punycode e