Re: bind Bind or BIND?

On 27/01/2011 02:43, Alan Clegg wrote: > On 1/26/2011 9:22 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: >> Yes, BIND is an acronym for Berkeley Internet Name Daemon. > Berkeley Internet Name Domain. Hi Alan, Could you correct the reference on http://www.isc.org/software/bind/whatis please. Cheers, Stace ___

Re: Question on ADDITIONAL SECTION

On 12/30/10 11:12, p...@mail.nsbeta.info wrote: $ dig www.cnn.com @202.96.128.166 ; <<>> DiG 9.4.2-P2 <<>> www.cnn.com @202.96.128.166 ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 65353 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 6, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDI

Re: ignoring incorrect nameservers in authority section

On 12/30/10 10:45, Torinthiel wrote: Dnia 2010-12-30 18:03 p...@mail.nsbeta.info napisał(a): Sunil Shetye writes: Case 2: Lame Server Reply === $ dig +norecurse @a.iana-servers.net. example.org. ;; flags: qr ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWE

Re: problem getting address record for google public dns server

This crops up time and time again - perhaps +trace should have been +mimic. The '+trace' option causes dig to act as a recursive server would, asking each server in turn for a none recursive answer. Thus when you say +trace its your instance of dig that's doing the work. The details in the respo

Re: libbind error

On 12/11/2010 22:46, Jack Tavares wrote: I believe I found a bug in the libbind code. Is this the correct place to report that? Thanks Jack, According to http://www.isc.org/software/libbind (found via search): Bug reports may be sent to libbind-b...@isc.org

Re: named won't restart

What does /etc/init.d/named do when you run it with the restart option? That file is not part of the BIND distribution and is likely a shell script so take a look and see what's its attempting to do. I wonder if its running 'rndc stop' and not waiting for the process to finish up before trying t

Re: RES: BIND View Option

On 11/11/2010 14:58, Stacey Jonathan Marshall wrote: On 11/11/2010 13:57, Stéphanas Schaden wrote: Hi all, Could any one give me an example of this configuration using $include ? What would be the content of the include file ? Anything that is allowed in named.conf at the point

Re: RES: BIND View Option

On 11/11/2010 13:57, Stéphanas Schaden wrote: Hi all, Could any one give me an example of this configuration using $include ? What would be the content of the include file ? Anything that is allowed in named.conf at the point the included statement is used. I note t

Re: why one shouldn't use relative hostnames

Additionally a wildcard record in one of the the searched domains would cause a false positive to be returned causing an outage to the service/services. And if your not in control of the zone or the search order it could be difficult to rectify. -Stacey On 11/11/2010 00:30, Kevin Darcy wrote

Re: How to get easily (from a script) all CNAME of a A record?

On 09/11/2010 14:14, Michelle Konzack wrote: Hello Matus UHLAR - fantomas, Am 2010-11-09 14:13:47, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: I am not sure whether dnswalk over whole internet can do that, but on your I will try it... server you can either run recursive grep over named data directory, o

Re: A Further Question about query-source

dig does not use named.conf. If you hadn't specified the server to ask (using @ syntax) then resolv.conf is used as source for initial server. Stace On 08/09/2010 17:13, b19...@anl.gov wrote: I have DNS severs with multiple addresses. They are running 9.7.1-P2. On the servers I have

Re: Bind hang out when named reach to 5-600 Mb

On 07/09/10 07:36, khanh rua wrote: Can u tell me how to do this ? If you enable query log, you might be able to see if it's actually serving queries at that time. I mean "it hang" is named process is still running but it cannot respond any lookup query. CPU is almost at low rate 5-6 % or lo

Re: out of memory Errors

Yes mine is also 32 bit. So is it confirmed that the 4GB memory limit on 32 bit processes on Solaris 10? Prabhat. Yes, a 32bit process can only access up-to 4gb of memory. $ echo 2^32 / 1024 / 1024 / 1024 | bc -l 4. I believe BIND has some options (named.conf) to

Re: out of memory Errors

On 06/17/10 16:50, Prabhat Rana wrote: I'm running BIND 9.6.1-P1 in a Solaris 10 server. There is a total of 32G of physical memory and at any given time about 20G is free. However, named keeps on throwing "out of memory" errors. When these error occurs in syslog, although named is still runni

Re: dnsquery for Solaris

On 03/10/10 11:59, Chris Thompson wrote: On Mar 10 2010, Sam Wilson wrote: In article , wrote: dig was added to Solaris 9. It is not native to Solaris 8 or older. That would explain why it's only where Chris found it on some of our range of Solarises (vintage or only slightly worn). Yes

Re: BIND 9.6.2rc1 make test question

On 02/24/10 20:56, John Center wrote: Hi Stace, Sorry, I didn't think this was necessarily a Solaris problem. I'm running this on Solaris 10 (SPARC 64bit), built with Sun Studio 12.1. Why did it occur on OpenSolaris? Hi John, Interesting, I didn't see the issue on Solaris 10 but then I'

Re: Random slow queries

On 02/24/10 18:50, Mike Chesney wrote: Running Bind 9.6.1-P3 We run authorative DNS for 60k+ zones. One one network where we two dns servers both running the same hardware on Centos 5.4 We see slow dns responses : example for i in {1..250}; do dig example.com @localhost

Re: BIND 9.6.2rc1 make test question

On 02/15/10 20:25, John Center wrote: Hi, I just built BIND 9.6.2rc1 & make test passes except for the following: A:the dst module provides the capability to verify data signed with the RSA and DSA algorithms I:testing t2_data_1, t2_dsasig, test., 23616, DST_ALG_DSA, ISC_R_SUCCESS I:testing t

Re: Occasional errors from res_nsearch

On 11/25/09 05:44, Divakar Pratap Singh P wrote: Hi, I am using S olaris (5.10 Sparc as well as i386 ) server to run an application (written in C language) which uses B ind library client implementation (available on Solaris box by default, version 4.9.4) . On processing consecutive lookup

libbind ns_find_tsig() documentation error.

The documentation for ns_find_tsig() is confused looking at libbind-6.0/doc/tsig.cat3: TSIG LOCALTSIG NAME ns_sign, ns_sign_tcp, ns_sign_tcp_init, ns_verify, ns_verify_tcp, ns_verify_tcp_init, ns_find_tsig -- TSIG system S

libbind ns_sign() and ns_verify() parameter in_timesigned not documented

The tsig manual page description for ns_sign() and ns_verify() include a parameter named in_timesigned of type time_t. However there is no description of this parameter as there is for the others: $ less libbind-6.0/doc/tsig.cat3 TSIG LOCAL

Re: about alt-transfer-source

On 09/07/2009 10:22, Peter Andreev wrote: Can somebody explain how many retries must pass, before IP-address from alt-transfer-source option will be used? Thank you. ___ bind-us

Re: problem with bind stop

On 01/07/2009 15:41, Joan Marc Riera wrote: Hello, we have some troubles with restart and stop. bind does not stop and I think it's because of a wrong kill argument on the stop) case. Perhaps named is still saving updates... Try halt instead... $ rndc [] $ rndc [...] stop Sa

Re: BIND and Solaris rand()

On 04/06/09 16:06, Chris Thompson wrote: It turns out that rand(3c) in even recent Solaris versions returns values in the range 0..32767 only. I suppose this is part of Sun's rather extreme paranoia about backwards compatibility with programs written before the flood. rand(3C) - simple random-num

Re: Unexpected error question

Just following this question up. The answer was that the user specified in the smf_method(5) property needs to have solaris.smf.manage.bind authorization to be able to disable the service. I've opened a bug to update the Sun manual page, CR 6809900 Created, P4 manpage/section1m named(1M) shoul

Re: Unexpected error question

On 02/05/09 16:04, Cherney John-CJC030 wrote: Yes, I normally use svcadm disable dns/server to stop named. Also, I've modified the dns/server stop method from the usual "kill:" to "/usr/sbin/rndc stop". I did that because I want to make sure the cache gets written to the db files, which an rndc s

Re: Catch ALL Setup

On 02/18/09 05:19, Mark Andrews wrote: $ORIGIN . @ 0 SOA ... @ 0 NS ... * 0 A 1.2.3.4 Just be careful of what you wish for, don't come back here saying that your resolver search path is no longer working ;-) To explain, lets say you use the above in example.c

Re: BIND 9.4.x vs 9.6.x - pid-file check and creation

Mark Andrews wrote: Looking at the publically available parts of SunSolve there are at least bug reports about it. Requires Support Contract tmp_mkdir()/xmemfs_mkdir() inconsistent with other xxxfs_mkdir() functions. | Open in a new window bug 6253984 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.d

Re: IPv6 Lookups on BIND 9.5.1-P1 and .GOV Addresses

BIND is suffering from http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6320428 (sendto() should forward errors up the stack). To provide relief from this issue the ISC have added additional command line options "-4" and "-6", as of bind 9.3.2, which instruct BIND to limit requests to

Re: Using 2 CPUs with BIND

:34 named 605 5 ? 0:01 named -Mike On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, Stacey Jonathan Marshall wrote: Mike Diggins wrote: I noticed that when BIND 9.2.4 on Redhat Linux (Intel x86) starts, the log records: dns1 named[28513]: starting BIND 9.2.4 -u named -t /var/named/chroot dns1 named

Re: Using 2 CPUs with BIND

Mike Diggins wrote: I noticed that when BIND 9.2.4 on Redhat Linux (Intel x86) starts, the log records: dns1 named[28513]: starting BIND 9.2.4 -u named -t /var/named/chroot dns1 named[28513]: using 2 CPUs When I start BIND on my Solaris 10 SPARC dual CPU (V210) system 9.4.2-P2, I don't get t

Re: Bind 9.5 configuration doubt

Reinaldo Matukuma wrote: Hello. I'm in doubt about defining a SOA record to a zone. Is this correct and valid? $TTL86400 $ORIGIN teste.com. @ 1D IN SOA @ root ( 42 ; serial (d. adams)

Re: Workaround Solaris's kernel bug

Thomas Schulz wrote: Change 2489 says to define ISC_SOCKET_USE_POLLWATCH to workaround a Solaris kernel bug about /dev/poll. How do I know if I should define this? Should I just assume that if I am running Sloaris 8 then I need to define ISC_SOCKET_USE_POLLWATCH? Is there any down side to defi