Re: root hints operation

2015-11-16 Thread Grant Taylor
On 11/16/2015 07:20 PM, Barry Margolin wrote: Did you think it combined the file with the built-in list? I hadn't given much thought to how the built in would or would not be combined with the contents of the root.hints file. I always took it that BIND would fall back to the compiled in vers

Re: root hints operation

2015-11-16 Thread Barry Margolin
In article , Grant Taylor wrote: > On 11/16/2015 06:56 PM, /dev/rob0 wrote: > > You either specify a hints file to use, or use the compiled-in root > > hints. > > Interesting. I was not aware that it was an exclusive or type situation. Did you think it combined the file with the built-in list

Re: root hints operation

2015-11-16 Thread Grant Taylor
On 11/16/2015 06:56 PM, /dev/rob0 wrote: You either specify a hints file to use, or use the compiled-in root hints. Interesting. I was not aware that it was an exclusive or type situation. Since the beginning of DNS, there has not been enough change to root hints so as to cause operational p

Re: root hints operation

2015-11-16 Thread /dev/rob0
On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 06:37:36PM -0700, Grant Taylor wrote: > In light of the upcoming H-root server changing addresses I wanted > to confirm how BIND uses root hints. > > It's my understanding that BIND has a compiled in version of the > root hints -and- a root hints file that can easily be u

root hints operation

2015-11-16 Thread Grant Taylor
In light of the upcoming H-root server changing addresses I wanted to confirm how BIND uses root hints. It's my understanding that BIND has a compiled in version of the root hints -and- a root hints file that can easily be updated. This information is used to prime named as it starts up in su

RE: monitoring/graphing/tracking named queries

2015-11-16 Thread Jamie . McDonald
We take grep the output of 'rndc status' for the recursive clients value and graph that into Zabbix. It may not be the most accurate but it gives us an indication of request distribution across our servers. - Jamie -Original Message- From: bind-users-boun...@lists.isc.org [mailto:bin