Re: DNS Negative Caching

2015-08-27 Thread Kevin Oberman
re Negative responses usually cached? >> > > by TTL while in case of a SERVFAIL i am not sure if it get cached > Only authoritative negative responses are cached. SERVFAILs are never authoritative, by definition. -- Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired E-mail: rkober...@gmail

Re: Automatic . NS queries from BIND

2015-06-15 Thread Kevin Oberman
ke "forward first". Since I am retired, I no longer manage a BIND server, so I have no logs to check on the behavior of "my" server. It would be interesting to see any documentation on the algorithm used to detect the "closest" root server as well as the log of someone e

Re: Automatic . NS queries from BIND

2015-06-15 Thread Kevin Oberman
that are used in the absence of a hints file. Yo0u really only need a hits file if you are using a non-standard (usually internal) root. Once named "finds" a responsive root from either its internal list or from the hints file, the hints are i

Re: DNS anycast node monitor

2015-04-19 Thread Kevin Oberman
ve failures or more than M of the last K queries. I no longer have access to the trivial script since I retired. It's really harder than it looks to do right and I don't think my code was adequately rigorous, but was capable of responding to most issues. I'm sure more heuristics rea

Re: compile and install from source

2015-03-30 Thread Kevin Oberman
https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to > unsubscribe from this list > > bind-users mailing list > bind-users@lists.isc.org > https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users > Note that chroot has just been re-enabled in the FreeBSD BIND ports. It's not default,

Re: SRV records etc

2015-02-10 Thread Kevin Oberman
uirement, it worked well in testing, so we > considered it useful and happily supported it. :-) > SRV records are almost essential for some applications. I can't imagine not supporting them. HINFO is getting pretty rare. The security issues are pretty obvious and its advantages are rathe

Re: DNSSEC

2015-01-17 Thread Kevin Oberman
management up. Last post I saw said mid-January. That should mean about now. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired E-mail: rkober...@gmail.com ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this l

Re: still have named memory leak

2014-12-13 Thread Kevin Oberman
via > HTTP, as the named process grows. See the "statistics-channels" > documentation in the manual. You can use curl or wget to dump them to a > file. > The standard tool for this on FreeBSD is fetch(1). E.g. fetch -o FILE "URL" In a script I usually also use &#

Re: Master to Slave initial zone transfer question

2014-04-16 Thread Kevin Oberman
> > Really thanks, > > JeLo > > Did you add the new zone to the slave's configuration (usually named.conf)? I assume so, or it would never load. But named.conf is only read when named is started or a 'reload' command is sent to it (rndc reload). Until then, h

Re: How can I increase the TTL for the cached entries in my local dns serveder?

2014-03-28 Thread Kevin Oberman
the wrong address which probably will result in a failure, but may result in getting old data. from a system that is no longer updating. Also beware of using too great an ncache TTL. This is the time to wait to retry querying after an authoritative failure (NDOMAIN). It is to prevent flooding a serv

Re: Does anyone have DNSSEC problem with uscg.mil

2013-11-14 Thread Kevin Oberman
alidation >> 14-Nov-2013 12:58:13.058 dnssec: debug 3: validating @23cee638: uscg.milA: >> in fetch_callback_validator >> 14-Nov-2013 12:58:13.058 dnssec: debug 3: validating @23cee638: uscg.milA: >> fetch_callback_validator: got failure >> 14-Nov-2013 12:58:13.233 d

Re: Dig gives ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

2013-10-03 Thread Kevin Oberman
to do so, just simple tcpdump will work well. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: rkober...@gmail.com ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists

Re: Dig gives ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

2013-10-02 Thread Kevin Oberman
even running DNS? Is a firewall blocking the query? The response? Is the server yours or someone else's? Is routing allowing bi-directional communication? Is these an outage that is blocking communication? The list of possibilities just goes on and on. If you want help, you have to tell us something mo

Re: Reverse Records on a leash?

2013-08-10 Thread Kevin Oberman
hatever data they have unless that data is delegated to your server. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: rkober...@gmail.com ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing

Re: How to minimize the downtime in my case

2013-03-16 Thread Kevin Oberman
short... A few minutes. The TTL on most stable RRs should be hours or even days. You shorten the TTL when you plan some change in a "permanent" record. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: rkober...@gmail.com ___ Please visit http

Re: How to measure the impact of enabling DNSSEC?

2013-01-27 Thread Kevin Oberman
ation in a Bind server. >> > >> > Measuring SERVFAILs seems to be a good proxy to measure DNSSEC's >> > impact. >> > >> > Thanks for the reply. >> >> SERVFAILS are not rare and come from many things. Looking at the >> delta >

Re: How to measure the impact of enabling DNSSEC?

2013-01-23 Thread Kevin Oberman
gt; Thanks for the reply. SERVFAILS are not rare and come from many things. Looking at the delta after enabling validation might be interesting, but in my experience you are unlikely to see any difference beyond the jitter that will always be there. Except for a couple of major goofs e

Re: restart named; missing TCP socket

2012-12-13 Thread Kevin Oberman
med start This looks like FreeBSD. If so, just use 'service named restart' for newer versions of FreeBSD. If the service command is not available, you can use '/etc/rc.d/named restart'. It wil properly stop named and then restart it. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mai

Re: Update view without using 2 ip for each DNS Server

2012-12-04 Thread Kevin Oberman
recursion for local system, I think it would be much simpler and more easily maintained to use an ACL with the 'allow-recursion' option. Views provide a lot of benefits for more complex cases, but to just control recursion strikes my as over-kill. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer

Re: cache does truely in local and doesn't work in remote

2012-09-04 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: > On Mon, 2012-09-03 at 15:42 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh >> wrote: >> > Dear all, >> > >> > I installed bind in Debian/lenny, and

Re: cache does truely in local and doesn't work in remote

2012-09-03 Thread Kevin Oberman
ce? 2. Does a firewall allow access to port 53/UDP? There are other possibilities, depending on thins like you network configuration. Make sure that you can ping the server from the remote system. And, please do not run an open recursive server. (Don't know that you are trying to, but it look

Re: How to validate SRV record?

2012-08-24 Thread Kevin Oberman
proprietary service is quite unlikely to register it or want to do so. After all, it would serve no purpose at all, even if the SRV records were used between enterprise facilities over the wider Internet. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6..

Re: How to validate SRV record?

2012-08-23 Thread Kevin Oberman
SRV records [RFC2782]." Not even "should". It appears to me that you are reading things into RFCs that are simply not there. That said the example you provide is silly, but I believe it is valid. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com __

Re: dig query

2012-08-13 Thread Kevin Oberman
the counter/logs of any firewall should confirm this or let you move on to other options. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this

Re: Inline Signing does not update SOA?

2012-05-07 Thread Kevin Oberman
hat you need to use rndc to freeze the zone, edit the zone file, and thaw the zone. You really can't edit a zone that is subject to any operation that makes use of journal files (dynamic updates, in-line signing) while the zone may be changing during the edit. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer

Re: Clarification on question and the answer section uppercase lower case mis match

2012-04-10 Thread Kevin Oberman
but will return the case of the authoritative record. See RFC1034 3.1 for a general description or RFC1035, section 2.3.3 for detail. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bi

Re: Recursive queries fail after bind has been running for a few hours

2012-03-12 Thread Kevin Oberman
be tractable. Once you have captured the data, you can use a tool like wireshark to look at it. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from t

Re: A few conceptual question about dnssec.

2012-03-03 Thread Kevin Oberman
solete. I suspect SHA-1 will be deprecated soon. I am unaware of any DNSSEC software that does not support SHA256 at this time, but I suspect someone, somewhere is running it. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___ Please vi

Re: Adding DS record to parent

2012-02-24 Thread Kevin Oberman
ures for handling these in place and, ironically, that is what complicated things. On my semi-retirement, I passed support for our DNS on to other, very capable hands who are very knowledgeable on DNSSEC, but I suspect that a KSK roll will prove 'interesting'. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Netwo

Re: lists.isc.org rDNS failed, DNSSEC?

2012-02-23 Thread Kevin Oberman
aily and rolling ZSKs every 2 weeks for over a year with no glitches at all, though we are using a non-BIND solution (Secure64) to do the signing. Still, it tells me that it is possible and I suspect that BIND 10 will move closer to that point. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6..

Re: lists.isc.org rDNS failed, DNSSEC?

2012-02-23 Thread Kevin Oberman
s about how careful people have to be about handling details when DNSSEC is added. It simply can't be the "set and forget" DNS of the past, at least not until and unless tools become far more bullet-proof. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___

Re: .IN Domain is DNSSEC enabled or not

2012-01-06 Thread Kevin Oberman
hat things were working when the registry was not yet ready to accept DS keys in any standard way. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe f

Re: Suspecious DNS queries dropped by Firewall

2011-12-14 Thread Kevin Oberman
ery might return over 512 bytes of data. The removal of the 512 byte limit on DNS packets is well over a decade old and dancing around it is a losing proposition. You must either fix your firewall (the right solution) or set your servers to NOT set the EDNS flag (a work-around that will probabl

Re: Using IPv6/IPv4 tunnels to send queries to a DNS server

2011-11-09 Thread Kevin Oberman
n the other side of the tunnel must talk IPv6. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.or

Re: udp vs tcp query

2011-10-23 Thread Kevin Oberman
kets. Without edns0, UDP packet size is limited to 512 bytes. With edns0, packets may typically run up to 4K bytes. If you are seeing issues with edns0, look for firewall issues. Make sure that it is not limiting DNS UDP to 512 and that it is allowing fragments. These are two of the most cause

Re: udp vs tcp query

2011-10-22 Thread Kevin Oberman
band-aid that will just keep breaking things. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.

Re: Setting Up Permissions

2011-10-19 Thread Kevin Oberman
the files as stated. named should be able to read the named.conf file, but should not own it or have write access to it. named must have read access to all zone files as well as both read and write to the directory where they are located. -- R. Kevin Oberma

Re: CNAME record for the root of the domain

2011-10-16 Thread Kevin Oberman
ending on exactly what you are trying to accomplish, you might get there by: 1. A DNAME in the parent. This aliases the entire domain, so this might or might not do what you want. 2. Use a A (and other records as needed) instead of a CNAME. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer

Re: Delegation check failed

2011-09-21 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 2:25 AM, Niall O'Reilly wrote: > > On 21 Sep 2011, at 02:08, Kevin Oberman wrote: > >> dig confirms that .com had the glue for water.com. > >        As does dnscheck.iis.se. >        Indeed, none of the test history (5 tests, today and yas

Re: Delegation check failed

2011-09-20 Thread Kevin Oberman
m. > > Lyle Giese The problem is that .com has the records. In the real world you provide glue to your registrar and they provide the glue to the delegating zone. dig confirms that .com had the glue for water.com. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Retired kob6...@gmail.com> LCR Compu

Re: Delegation check failed

2011-09-20 Thread Kevin Oberman
     A       12.44.84.214 > > ;; Query time: 22 msec > ;; SERVER: 192.42.93.30#53(192.42.93.30) > ;; WHEN: Tue Sep 20 13:21:28 2011 > ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 105 > > Regards, > Chris Buxton > BlueCat Networks I just did some checks and I think dnscheck is broken. I get

Re: Query regarding NS record

2011-09-16 Thread Kevin Oberman
on of DNS is to have multiple servers, all answering and all having identical data for queries from any particular source. Kevin Oberman Network Engineer -- Retired kob6...@gmail.com ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to un

Re: Query regarding NS record

2011-09-16 Thread Kevin Oberman
onse from that system and people at the branch office will usually get responses from that server. But, if the servers are configured properly, they will always be in sync withing seconds of any change. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer - Retired E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___

Re: I use ProBind and you ?

2011-08-30 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:33 AM, mfla wrote: > Dears, > I use ProBIND to administrate my BIND servers. > I would like to know which other possibities be available for DNS central > management ? At my former employer, we used Nixu Namesurfer. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer

Re: problem with spinsix.com?

2011-08-30 Thread Kevin Oberman
see two NS records in the gtld servers for com and the dig returns SOA records for both when I query 8.8.8.8. dig spinsix.com. +nssearch @8.8.8.8 SOA ns63.domaincontrol.com. dns.jomax.net. 2011080600 28800 7200 604800 86400 from server 216.69.185.42 in 75 ms. SOA ns63.domaincontrol.com. dn

Re: Breaking up RFC 1918 reverse space

2011-07-23 Thread Kevin Oberman
commercial tools are available, but I am not sure of open source tools that support IPv6 well. Finally, you really need to move to at LEAST 9.7. It has decent DNSSEC support and many other important capabilities. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer - Retired E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com

Re: BIND and DNS protocol

2011-07-20 Thread Kevin Oberman
Group who also developed BSD Unix from which all BSD flavors developed. The primary authors of BIND v4.3(?) were four grad students at UC. See BIND on Wikipedia (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/BIND) for more details. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer - Retired E-mail: kob6...@g

Re: Reverse lookup flood from a single host

2011-07-15 Thread Kevin Oberman
oo much. > > Is this abuse? If so, is it likely intentional? There are many apps that can generate the volume of queries you are seeing. The query rate is really not that high. My first guess is some sort of logging tool, but there are a great many other possibilities. R. Kevin Oberman,

Re: better performance with 32 bit ! why?

2011-06-28 Thread Kevin Oberman
ded data that must be moved for 64-bit operations. It also means the 64-bit binaries are larger, often by a significant amount. I recommend sticking with 32-bit systems unless you have a specific need for 64-bit capacity. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer - Retired E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com

Re: Bug in bind 9.7.3?

2011-05-26 Thread Kevin Oberman
n't reproduce it myself > (probably, I'm doing something wrong). You can't trigger it any longer. The .gov people imposed a work-around that prevented the bug from being triggered. This was done quite a few hours ago. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Scienc

Re: subdomain delegation question

2011-05-22 Thread Kevin Oberman
will actually be checked again. This is a fail-safe mechanism to control load on servers, but checking every 10 or 15 minutes is not a serious load. Fortunately, BIND has a sanity check that limits min TTL to 3 hours, so yours is not as bad as it seems, but I'd really suggest changing it.

Re: start script for bind9

2011-04-14 Thread Kevin Oberman
nit.d/ > directory. > > I know that if bind is installed via apt-get install (I am using > debian linux version), there is automatically a bind9 startup script > in /etc/init.d/ directory. It would help a bit if you gave us a hint as to what OS and OS version as well as the vers

Re: BIND 9.4.3-P2 assertion failure

2011-04-01 Thread Kevin Oberman
ons are supported for 9.4 and 9.6 Yes, it has, but FreeBSD-7.2 is rather old and not supported. FreeBSD is now at 8.2 and includes 9.6-ESV-R4. 7.4 is also fully supported and has 9.4-ESV. Of course, as you mention, the ports are more current. It has several versions including 9.7.3 and 9.8.0

Re: TTLs and Timeout Question

2011-03-29 Thread Kevin Oberman
It may get updated in just a few seconds, but the server will continue to respond that it does not exist until the negative cache TTL expires. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: ober...@es.ne

Re: root zone initial key in bind.keys

2011-02-23 Thread Kevin Oberman
bove is an empty set. I can imagine some reasons some might want to do it, but I can't come up with a GOOD reason for it. Most people move their trust anchors out of the DLV when they are confident that the keys are properly located in the parent zone. In other words, I think that this should be

Re: Please Help

2011-02-17 Thread Kevin Oberman
t a sign > they are actually doing it. Yes, they are. As of the last report I have received, something over 50% of all .gov zones are now signed with the DS records installed in the .gov zone. Still quite a ways to go but substantial progress has been made and people with broken firewall are s

Re: cache server with authoritative answer

2011-01-30 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Sat, 2011-01-29 at 14:49 +0800, p...@mail.nsbeta.info wrote: > The book "Pro DNS and BIND" says: > > If the caching server obtains its data directly from an authoritative DNS, > then it too will respond as authoritative. Ohterwise, if the data is > supplied from its cache, the response is no

Re: forwarding

2010-12-12 Thread Kevin Oberman
sue". I see a description of the set-up and a statement that bind 8 works, both nothing about what is failing on BIND 9. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: ober...@es.net

Re: Almost Ready for DNS-SEC but Slightly Confused in Home Stretch

2010-12-10 Thread Kevin Oberman
t; the next day or so so all the testing is being done on another > box for now. > > Thanks for all the help from this list. I think we are more > there than not, but we aren't home yet. Go ahead and start signing your master data and making the signed data available so you can

Re: bind autosign - DS distribution

2010-12-09 Thread Kevin Oberman
sends out notifies to the slaves which publicly serve the data. No need for two instances. I believe the real claim to fame of Secure64 is the security of the private keys. The system is FIPS140-2 level 2 certified and that is hard to come by, especially without an HSM. This is very nice of dynam

Re: Unusual TSIG problem

2010-12-08 Thread Kevin Oberman
> From: Mark Andrews > Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 09:07:53 +1100 > > > In message <20101208214221.566771c...@ptavv.es.net>, "Kevin Oberman" writes: > > I just ran into an odd issue with a TSIG signed zone transfer. > > > > On occasion I was lo

Unusual TSIG problem

2010-12-08 Thread Kevin Oberman
ere more appropriate language that might indicate that it could also be an effective time-out because the transfer took too long? Maybe "failed while receiving responses: clocks are unsynchronized or maximum transfer time exceeded"? -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Netw

Re: Option "notify no" also disabled query log?

2010-12-06 Thread Kevin Oberman
as not mentioned in arm9.7, so > I'm asking here. > ___ > bind-users mailing list > bind-users@lists.isc.org > https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users > -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences N

Re: Category for refused recursive queries

2010-12-03 Thread Kevin Oberman
> Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2010 13:08:23 -0800 > From: "Kevin Oberman" > Sender: bind-users-bounces+oberman=es@lists.isc.org > > I would really like to get the huge number of rejected recursive > quieries out of my logs, but I have failed, so far. I am referring to:

Category for refused recursive queries

2010-12-03 Thread Kevin Oberman
Or am I missing something else? -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: ober...@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3

Re: DNSSEC - 1 RRSIG - expires while in cache

2010-11-27 Thread Kevin Oberman
pires. I thing the heading in the RFC is "TTL Considerations", but I am working from memory. I don't use BIND to sign my data, so I am not sure how "smart" BIND is about these numbers. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Networ

Re: Split Delegation IP Reverse

2010-11-23 Thread Kevin Oberman
inname > > > Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:18:17 -0600 > From: "Wilbert J. Rojas O." > Sender: bind-users-bounces+oberman=es@lists.isc.org > > Jonathan Thanks for responding, but I don't understand your idea. > > > Ing. Wilbert J. Rojas O. |Equ

Re: Strange behaviour after nsupdate

2010-11-09 Thread Kevin Oberman
ntion that I use bind-9.7.2-P2. > > Removing the journal (as a workaround for now) helps although it's no > > solution. > > The nsupdate commands are: > > server ns.zone.tld > > zone my.zone.tld > > update delete my.zone.tld A > > update add my.zone

Re: bind9.7.1 Instance seems to not talk to systems on its own network.

2010-11-05 Thread Kevin Oberman
ping the DNS server? It almost sounds like something has a bad subnet mask, but that is less likely if the host is in the same /24 as the server. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Re: Unknown option 'managed-keys' - why?

2010-10-31 Thread Kevin Oberman
of BIND in included in your Fedora? Last I looked, the version was ancient. 9.3 or something similar. You really need to update to 9.7.2-P2 as 9.7 is the first (and only) version to support managed-keys. 9.3 does not really support dnssec at all, if that is what you have. Useful DNSSEC shoed up somewhere i

Re: bind9.7.1 Reload Fails with Permission Denied. solved

2010-10-21 Thread Kevin Oberman
newsyslog.conf? Are you starting it properly so that the PID file is in the right place, usually /var/run? -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: ober...@es.net P

Re: Reverse Configuration

2010-10-16 Thread Kevin Oberman
s are returned. I think that this is unfortunate, but there is too much software out there (including many standard libraries) that make the same silly assumption to things it can be changed. There is even an RFC saying approximately this. Sorry, but I don't recall which one. -- R. Kevi

Re: Unable to query the nameserver

2010-10-06 Thread Kevin Oberman
asy. Yes, I am sure that some script somewhere depends on some "wrong" response from nslookup, but I can't see keeping nslookup(1) alive as is for that amazingly unlikely case. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) E

Re: Unable to query the nameserver

2010-10-06 Thread Kevin Oberman
> Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 01:53:29 +1100 > From: Ben McGinnes > > On 7/10/10 1:47 AM, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > > I keep hoping for a BIND distro that upgrades nslookup(1) to: > > print STDERR, "nslookup(1) has been replaced by host(1)\n"; exit 0; >

Re: Unable to query the nameserver

2010-10-06 Thread Kevin Oberman
S. And dig/host is to be greatly preferred for that purpose over > nslookup, which sucks in more ways than I care to list here. I keep hoping for a BIND distro that upgrades nslookup(1) to: print STDERR, "nslookup(1) has been replaced by host(1)\n"; exit 0; I've been wishi

Re: OT: Propagation of my NS records?

2010-10-04 Thread Kevin Oberman
e com zone. I know that netsol (and the other registrars) do not update glue based on what is returned from an NS query to the current authoritative server. Doing so would create a huge security issue and an easy way to hijack DNS. Once DNSSEC is in place, it will become feasible to do this, but I w

Re: When does BIND send queries with DO flag enabled?

2010-09-29 Thread Kevin Oberman
etting DO. I suspect WIN7 would. This last section is largely an educated guess. I don't have time now to read up on those details in the RFCs. Again, get the @#$% firewall fixed! As time goes on, more and more queries will be blocked by it as DNSSEC moves to the mainstream. -- R. Kevin Oberm

Re: chrooting BIND [was -Re: Here I am again, hat in hand with humble demeanor.......]

2010-09-27 Thread Kevin Oberman
or a zone if you are on Solaris, or a Solaris based > distro. While both are pretty simple to do on BSD, jail is far more secure, but I certainly find setting up jails more complex than chrooting. (Besides, the FreeBSD BIND is chrooted by default, so there is nothing to set up.) -- R. Kevin Oberm

Re: NSEC3 salt lifetime (and some other DNSSEC params): sane value?

2010-09-20 Thread Kevin Oberman
ven for government sites, though ONLY in cases where dynamic DNS is used or the back-end DNS management system requires it. Government sites may not keep the KSK on-line. See SP800-81r1 Section 9.4 for details. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence

Re: cant update 'cz'

2010-08-29 Thread Kevin Oberman
it. ICANN is the obvious place to go, but I don't believe the format ICANN publishes in is compatible with anchors2keys. The XML schema is different from that of the ITAR. Not that it is all that hard to figure out. I will confirm that the ISC published key matches the one ICANN has, but I wo

Re: zero SOA TTL - still best practice?

2010-08-26 Thread Kevin Oberman
MINUTES. The purpose of the negative cache is to keep servers from being continually beaten on and reducing queries from some broken piece of software from hundreds of queries/second to 4 or 5 per minute. (And there were and probably are things still making hundreds of queries/second because some reso

Re: Multiple masters expected behavior?

2010-07-25 Thread Kevin Oberman
pport of BIND on our public servers mostly unrelated to the IPAM and DNSSEC stuff has really not been hard. In the time it took me to send my reply, I could have updated BIND on all of our public servers and I don't have to upgrade all that often. I think running 9.3 is false economy. DNS is j

Re: USADOTGOV.NET Root Problems?

2010-07-25 Thread Kevin Oberman
n't know of any highly regarded security expert who recommends them and most object to them rather strongly. I will admit to once having stateful firewalls in front of my DNS servers, but after an unfortunate case of a badly written application DOSing ourselves, stateful firewalls have been remo

Re: .org registrars allowing DS records

2010-06-06 Thread Kevin Oberman
that will not mean that they will be accepting them immediately. Until then, dlv.isc.org is the best (only?) option. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: ober...@es.net Ph

Re: disable dnssec in bind resolver

2010-06-04 Thread R. Kevin Oberman
problems on a smaller scale until the firewall is fixed. Sent from my Treo: R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) E. O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) ober...@es.net +1 510-486-8634 -Original Message- From: Paul Wouters

Re: Opinions about zone configuration

2010-05-25 Thread Kevin Oberman
n explain what I overlooked and why this really IS a bad idea. Or, maybe I got it right. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: ober...@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprin

Re: question on query process

2010-05-25 Thread Kevin Oberman
example.com, it will start there. Obviously, there should not be many queries to the root. I'll leave why there are as an exercise for network researchers and those who write really stupid, often broken software, that uses DNS. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (

Re: Implementing the bogon list

2010-04-09 Thread Kevin Oberman
://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/etc/namedb/named.conf?rev=1.31;content-type=text%2Fplain You can add the unassigned space to those fairly easily, but make sure that you update it as space is assigned. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (

Re: dnssec signing tools

2010-03-20 Thread Kevin Oberman
e that includes tests of DNSSEC. Yo can install the tests on a local system or run them on the web site. I also urge you to get copy of NIST SP800-81r1, an excellent overview and how-to on DNS security that goes well beyond DNSSEC. It is at: http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/drafts/800-81-rev1/nis

Re: T_ANY

2010-03-19 Thread Kevin Oberman
12 bytes. (Well, it didn't have a "problem", it just blocked them. I'm not sure what, if any code version fixes this. (I don't have any these days.) If this has not been fixed, that might explain it. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Er

Re: OpenDNS today announced it has adopted DNSCurve to secure DNS

2010-03-08 Thread Kevin Oberman
doesn't encrypt payload because it doesn't need to. More specifically, I don't WANT to encrypt the data for either DNS or NTP. In both cases I want the data to always be signed clear-text and that is what DNSSEC does. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet

Re: DNSSEC: Configuring auto-signed dynamic zone HOWTO

2010-02-23 Thread Kevin Oberman
raft when I printed it out, but I suspect that the final draft will match these recommendations. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: ober...@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key

Re: A question with forwarder and listen-on

2010-02-19 Thread Kevin Oberman
dicating it is on a server in a NATed address space. The second is loopback. The configuration is intended for a local server answering authoritatively for internal, NATed addresses and forwarding all other queries to servers in public space. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Science

Re: Bind9 overloaded, recursive clients and timeout.

2010-02-10 Thread Kevin Oberman
to act as a stateless device and just pass traffic that was not blocked by the ACL. A real-time black hole server in combination with ACLs is the only good way to protect a server. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkel

Re: IPv6 TCP

2009-12-28 Thread Kevin Oberman
> Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:02:29 -0800 (PST) > From: Pamela Rock > > > > --- On Mon, 12/28/09, Mark Andrews wrote: > > > From: Mark Andrews > > Subject: Re: IPv6 TCP > > To: "Pamela Rock" > > Cc: "Kevin Oberman" , "Chuc

Re: IPv6 TCP

2009-12-28 Thread Kevin Oberman
var' '--disable-linux-caps' '--with-randomdev=/dev/random' '--with-openssl=/usr' '--with-libxml2=/usr/local' '--without-idn' 'STD_CDEFINES=-DDIG_SIGCHASE=1' '--enable-threads' '--sysconfdir=/etc/namedb' '--prefix=

Re: ISC BIND 9.4.3-P4 is now available

2009-11-30 Thread Kevin Oberman
validation. If you sign your data without enabling validation, it does nothing, as far as I can tell. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: ober...@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Ke