Re: Authoritative and caching

2025-03-16 Thread Timothe Litt via bind-users
  (Under selinux, zone files are labeled, and whether they can be written is a configuration switch.  There should be an apparmor equivalent... ) ISC gave some webinars on "BIND 9 Security" a couple of years ago. https://www.isc.org/blogs/bind-security-webinar-series-2021/ .  There&

Re: xfer-in: Transfer status: timed out (selective failures)

2025-02-24 Thread Timothe Litt via bind-users
Ptables to make tracking/logging easier. Timothe Litt ACM Distinguished Engineer -- This communication may not represent the ACM or my employer's views, if any, on the matters discussed. OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- Visit https://l

Re: 9.18 BIND not resolving .gov.bd site

2023-10-30 Thread Timothe Litt
if not a DNS expert, the easiest diagnostic to use is https://dnsviz.net It's graphical, detailed and while oriented toward DNSSEC, detects many other misconfigurations. Fix the errors and warnings shown at https://dnsviz.net/d/mofa.gov.bd/dnssec/ and retest. Timothe Litt ACM Dist

Re: Zone stats

2023-08-21 Thread Timothe Litt
do the transfer and walk the zone.   (And also how to use DNS UPDATE to maintain it.) Enjoy. Timothe Litt ACM Distinguished Engineer -- This communication may not represent the ACM or my employer's views, if any, on the matters discussed. OpenPGP_signature Descripti

Re: bind-users Digest, Vol 4302, Issue 1

2023-08-21 Thread Timothe Litt
ss fields in the records. https://github.com/tlhackque/certtools has a simple utility called acme_token_check  that does (c) to remove stray ACME records - it shows how to do the transfer and walk the zone.   (And also how to use DNS UPDATE to maintain it.) Enjoy. Timothe Litt ACM Dist

Re: RFC7344 (was: Funky Key Tag in AWS Route53 (2)) (2)

2022-12-29 Thread Timothe Litt
re found at the end of the string, e.g., a base 64 string terminated with "===", the excess pad characters could be ignored. Timothe Litt ACM Distinguished Engineer -- This communication may not represent the ACM or my employer's views, if any, on the ma

Re: RFC7344 (was: Funky Key Tag in AWS Route53 (2)) (2)

2022-12-29 Thread Timothe Litt
e anything that no complaints are received.    Which discourages adoption, keeps the user base small, validates the "don't do much" strategy, and - catch-22, DNSSEC doesn't expand beyond the hardcore techies. The problem is politics, not technology. Timothe Litt ACM Distin

Re: RFC7344 (was: Funky Key Tag in AWS Route53 (2)) (2)

2022-12-29 Thread Timothe Litt
Apparently I didn't include the DNS script library link mentioned in my note.  Sorry. https://github.com/srvrco/getssl/tree/master/dns_scripts On 29-Dec-22 13:45, Peter wrote: On Thu, Dec 29, 2022 at 09:17:26AM -0500, Timothe Litt wrote: ! (Manual processes ! are error-prone.  That ge

Re: RFC7344 (was: Funky Key Tag in AWS Route53 (2))

2022-12-29 Thread Timothe Litt
On 29-Dec-22 13:45, Peter wrote: On Thu, Dec 29, 2022 at 09:17:26AM -0500, Timothe Litt wrote: ! (Manual processes ! are error-prone.  That getting registrars to adopt CDS/CDNSKEY - RFC7344 - ! has been so slow is unfortunate.) Seconded. Do You have information about this moving at all

Re: Funky Key Tag in AWS Route53 (2)

2022-12-29 Thread Timothe Litt
8 2 2E81A125523957ED2C3076B4E58BE159027F659D74E184E2F0B81D922D1E7FA9| So, as I concluded, AWS was generating a DS for a different "key".  Its keytag was correct for the data it got. Glad you got to a solution. Timothe Litt ACM Distinguished Engineer -- This communic

Re: Funky Key Tag in AWS Route53 (2)

2022-12-29 Thread Timothe Litt
If it is, they have a bug You might also consider using a different key experimentally, on the off chance that a wrong keytag bug is data-dependent. But the most likely scenario is that somehow AWS is generating a DS for a different key. I don't use AWS, so that's as fa

Re: Funky Key Tag in AWS Route53 (2)

2022-12-29 Thread Timothe Litt
Net::DNS::RR->new("ericgermann.photography. DS 22755 8 2 2E81A1255ED2C3076B4E58BE159027F659D74E184E2F0B81D92 2D1E7FA9")->keytag,"\n"' Enjoy. Timothe Litt ACM Distinguished Engineer -- This communication may not represent the ACM or my e

Re: Funky Key Tag in AWS Route53

2022-12-29 Thread Timothe Litt
otography. DS 22755 8 2 2E81A1255ED2C3076B4E58BE159027F659D74E184E2F0B81D92 2D1E7FA9")->keytag,"\n"'_ 22755_ | |perl -MNet::DNS -MNet::DNS::SEC -e' print Net::DNS::RR->new("ericgermann.photography. DNSKEY  256 3 15 9SM6gMjImcK0sKPvIlEr9ZNKxsqmSL9zO7P9

Re: parental-agents clause - IP address only ?

2022-12-06 Thread Timothe Litt
" in selecting a suitable resolver for an external process.  In any case, using "include" in configurations can help to modularize/isolate the places where IP addresses are used. Timothe Litt ACM Distinguished Engineer -- This communication may not r

Re: parental-agents clause - IP address only ?

2022-12-05 Thread Timothe Litt
age you to share it. Here, or especially if larger, a pointer to one of the usual platforms. (GitHub, GitLab, sourceforge, etc). The community works best when everyone contributes what they can. Timothe Litt ACM Distinguished Engineer -- This communication may not represent

Re: parental-agents clause - IP address only ?

2022-12-05 Thread Timothe Litt
o "Failed to resolve \"${HOST}\" \"$TYPE\"" >&2     exit 1     fi     if [ -z "$IP" ]; then     echo "Failed to resolve \"${HOST}\" \"$TYPE\"" >&2         exit 1     fi     sed -i &q

Re: ,Re: caching does not seem to be working for internal view

2022-08-03 Thread Timothe Litt
agers that I know of aren't in redhat distributions. You may need to use auditing to identify what is writing the file. Timothe Litt ACM Distinguished Engineer -- This communication may not represent the ACM or my employer's views, if any, on the matters d

Re: ,Re: caching does not seem to be working for internal view

2022-08-03 Thread Timothe Litt
Try echo -e "[main]\ndns=none" > /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/no-dns.conf systemctl restart NetworkManager.service Timothe Litt ACM Distinguished Engineer -- This communication may not represent the ACM or my employer's views, if any, on the matters dis

,Re: caching does not seem to be working for internal view

2022-08-03 Thread Timothe Litt
show what happens (if it still does - it could be that the ATT router's resolver is at fault). Intermediate step would be to use dig. Timothe Litt ACM Distinguished Engineer -- This communication may not represent the ACM or my employer's views, if any, on t

Re: DNSSEC adoption

2022-08-03 Thread Timothe Litt
folks working on dnssec-policy seem to have been responsive. FWIW Timothe Litt ACM Distinguished Engineer -- This communication may not represent the ACM or my employer's views, if any, on the matters discussed. OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signatur

Re: RE: DNSSEC adoption

2022-08-02 Thread Timothe Litt
ns servers, and client resolvers all on the same page.  I'm not holding my breath. Timothe Litt ACM Distinguished Engineer -- This communication may not represent the ACM or my employer's views, if any, on the matters discussed. OpenPGP_signature Desc

Re: DNSSEC signing of an internal zone gains nothing (unless??)

2022-08-02 Thread Timothe Litt
On 02-Aug-22 13:18, Peter wrote: On Tue, Aug 02, 2022 at 11:54:02AM -0400, Timothe Litt wrote: ! ! On 02-Aug-22 11:09,bind-users-requ...@lists.isc.org wrote: ! ! > | Before your authoritative view, define a recursive view with the internal ! > ! zones defined as static-stub, match-rec

Re: bind-users Digest, Vol 4031, Issue 3

2022-08-02 Thread Timothe Litt
nd match-clients, but those are site-specific. You can also slave the root zone - that's orthogonal to AD. I suggest taking one step at a time. Timothe Litt ACM Distinguished Engineer -- This communication may not represent the ACM or my employer's views, if

Re: Bind 9.11/RHEL7 Server Freezes FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE

2022-08-02 Thread Timothe Litt
being defective/compromised... Timothe Litt ACM Distinguished Engineer -- This communication may not represent the ACM or my employer's views, if any, on the matters discussed. OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- Visit https://lists.isc.org/mailma

Re: DNSSEC signing of an internal zone gains nothing (unless??)

2022-08-02 Thread Timothe Litt
uot; type static-stub;\n  server-addresses { 127.0.0.1; };  \n}; \n"}' >internal_stub_zones.conf| will generate the static-stub declarations. Of course, depending on how you add/remove zones, YMMV. Timothe Litt ACM Distinguished Engineer -- This commun

Re: Supporting LOC RR's

2022-05-13 Thread Timothe Litt
and at what cost.  I don't expect a positive outcome, but if I'm wrong, by all means post the details. Since this has indeed come full circle, I'm done. Timothe Litt ACM Distinguished Engineer -- This communication may not represent the ACM or my em

Re: Supporting LOC RR's

2022-05-02 Thread Timothe Litt
the result :-) Still, overall DNS seems to generate more problems than fun, so if LOC provides amusement, it's a good thing. Malheureusement, LOC's practical application remains unclear. Timothe Litt ACM Distinguished Engineer -- This communication may not rep

Re: Supporting LOC RR's

2022-05-02 Thread Timothe Litt
On 01-May-22 05:03, Bob Harold wrote: On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 9:39 AM Bjørn Mork wrote: Timothe Litt writes: > Anyhow, it's not clear exactly what problem you're asking LOC (or > anything) to solve. Which problems do LOC solve? I remember adding LOC

Re: Supporting LOC RR's

2022-04-12 Thread Timothe Litt
ly what problem you're asking LOC (or anything) to solve. BTW, RFC1876 is worth reading for the suggested search algorithms.  I don't think it ever moved from "experimental", which may be part of why uptake hasn't been great. Timothe Litt ACM Distinguished Engineer

Re: Supporting LOC RR's

2022-04-12 Thread Timothe Litt
rs are easily found at less than $20.  This may be a better choice than LOC records.  GPS tells you where you are; LOC tells everyone else... HTH Timothe Litt ACM Distinguished Engineer -- This communication may not represent the ACM or my employer's views, if any, on

Re: freebsd ipfw question

2022-02-21 Thread Timothe Litt
isn't the right mitigation. It's important not to jump to conclusions... Timothe Litt ACM Distinguished Engineer -- This communication may not represent the ACM or my employer's views, if any, on the matters discussed. OpenPGP_signature Description: Open

Re: freebsd ipfw question

2022-02-18 Thread Timothe Litt
in order.  And if it comes to that, do yourself (and your successors) a favor and document the problem you encounter and how your solution works... Timothe Litt ACM Distinguished Engineer -- This communication may not represent the ACM or my employer's views, if any, on

Re: ipv6 adoption (HE & DNSSEC)

2022-02-17 Thread Timothe Litt
   But enough polite requests might help. Perhaps further discussion of this belongs elsewhere...it seems to be wandering from BIND. Timothe Litt ACM Distinguished Engineer -- This communication may not represent the ACM or my employer's views, if any, on the

Re: ipv6 adoption

2022-02-16 Thread Timothe Litt
vers, you need to meet the geographic dispersion rules.  At least 2 servers in two places.  That's true no matter what protocols you use.  There are backup DNS services that support IPv6.  A free one that supports both IPv6 and DNSSEC is puck.nether.net/dns. There are plenty of D

Re: Freezing a Zone vs. Stopping the DNS Server

2021-09-29 Thread Timothe Litt
n the records.  It's easier, doesn't stop service, and because it automates the mechanics, safer. BTW: I recommend using TSIG for authorization with nsupdate rather than IP addresses. Timothe Litt ACM Distinguished Engineer -- This communication may not represen

Re: Notice of plan to deprecate map zone file format

2021-09-10 Thread Timothe Litt
On 10-Sep-21 13:11, Evan Hunt wrote: > Recently a critical bug was discovered in which map files that were > generated by a previous version of BIND caused a crash in newer versions. > It took over a month for anybody to report the bug to us, which suggests > that the number of people willing to pu

Re: Notice of plan to deprecate map zone file format

2021-09-10 Thread Timothe Litt
at much. A new memory mapped data structure that didn't require "updating node pointers" (e.g. that used offsets instead of pointers) may be worth considering.  In current hardware and with a decent compiler and coding, the apparent cost of this over absolute pointers may well b

Re: Notice of plan to deprecate map zone file format

2021-09-10 Thread Timothe Litt
On 10-Sep-21 08:36, Victoria Risk wrote: > > >> On Sep 10, 2021, at 7:24 AM, Timothe Litt > <mailto:l...@acm.org>> wrote: >> >> Clearly map format solved a big problem for some users.  Asking >> whether it's OK to drop it with no statement of

Re: Notice of plan to deprecate map zone file format

2021-09-10 Thread Timothe Litt
A fair question for users would be what restart times are acceptable for their environment - obviously a function of the number and size/content of zones.  And is a restart "all or nothing", or would some priority/sequencing of zone availability meet requirements? Timothe Litt ACM Distinguis

Re: RE: No more support for windows

2021-06-10 Thread Timothe Litt
tart a religious war or to prolong the debate on what ISC does.  It assumes BIND won't support windows, that WSL is imperfect, and that an alternative to complaining might be helpful...  Feel free to s/Linux/(Solaris|FreeBSD|VMS|yourfavorite/g. I don't have a need for BIND (except the tools)

Re: root.hints - apparmor access error with Bind from PPA

2021-06-04 Thread Timothe Litt
had only a couple of IPv4 addresses wrong.  (Didn't have many IPv6.)  root.hint really IS stable - and so, therefore, are the named built-ins. Timothe Litt ACM Distinguished Engineer -- This communication may not represent the ACM or my employer's views, if any, o

Re: Deprecating BIND 9.18+ on Windows (or making it community improved and supported)

2021-04-29 Thread Timothe Litt
the network (to make DNS queries[no, not named!], including control) - yes: prefer to keep FWIW - YMMV. Timothe Litt ACM Distinguished Engineer -- This communication may not represent the ACM or my employer's views, if any, on the matters discussed. On 29-Apr-21

Re: Status of zytrax.com "DNS for Rocket Scientists" website

2021-04-21 Thread Timothe Litt
e.org/web/20201223034301/https://www.zytrax.com/books/dns/> Timothe Litt ACM Distinguished Engineer -- This communication may not represent the ACM or my employer's views, if any, on the matters discussed. On 20-Apr-21 19:09, Victoria Risk wrote: > Ron Aitchinson called me t

Re: How Zone Files Are Read

2020-12-16 Thread Timothe Litt
On 16-Dec-20 13:52, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > On 12/16/20 12:25 PM, Timothe Litt wrote: >> On 16-Dec-20 11:37, Tim Daneliuk wrote: >>> I ran into a situation yesterday which got me pondering something about >>> bind. >>> >>> In this case, a single line i

Re: How Zone Files Are Read

2020-12-16 Thread Timothe Litt
, > just trying to understand for future reference. > > TIA, > Tim DNS is complicated.  The scope of an error in a zonefile is hard to determine. To avoid this, your automation should use named-checkzone before releasing a zone file. This will perform all the checks that na

Re: [External] Re: How can I launch a private Internet DNS server?

2020-11-08 Thread Timothe Litt
f you skimp on that investment, since broken DNS is externally visible - and frequently catastrophic." I'll finish with a 1987 quote from Leslie Lamport on distributed systems, which the DNS most certainly is: "A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn&#x

Re: How can I launch a private Internet DNS server?

2020-11-07 Thread Timothe Litt
high query rates. RFC2182 (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2182) is fairly readable and describes many of the considerations involved in selecting secondary DNS servers.  DNS appears deceptively simple at first blush.  Setting up a serviceable infrastructure requires an investment of thought and on-go

Re: Request for review of performance advice

2020-07-10 Thread Timothe Litt
onment to the real world...)  While full automation can be fun, it's amazing how much one can get out of a spreadsheet with/autofilter.  (For the next level, pivot tables and/or charts...) Timothe Litt ACM Distinguished Engineer -- This communication may not represent the

Re: Question About Recursion In A Split Horizon Setup

2020-04-17 Thread Timothe Litt
address other than what you intend.  Use -b to explicitly bind to a particular interface. (Or, if you use TSIG to match views, -k) Timothe Litt ACM Distinguished Engineer -- This communication may not represent the ACM or my employer's vie

Re: DNSSEC - many doubts

2020-04-03 Thread Timothe Litt
  Or any Intel or AMD cpu since ~2015 has RDRAND/RDSEED. There are some religious arguments about booby-trapped hardware sources - these days, kernels will mix all sources, so I don't get too upset.  But YMMV. Timothe Litt ACM Distinguished Engineer -- This communicatio

Re: Machine friendly alternative to nsupdate

2020-04-01 Thread Timothe Litt
he code to do (TSIG-signed) updates. As for the next layer - XML or whatever - that's another project.  If you speak Perl, it would not be difficult to wrap Net::DNS to meet your needs. P.S. Other than using it (and reporting the occasional bug), I have no relationship with Net::DNS :-) Ti

Re: with dot in NAME for ACME via dynamic update (Axel Rau)

2020-03-14 Thread Timothe Litt
Er, dig _acme-challenge.imap.lrau.net <http://acme-challenge.imap.lrau.net>. is missing a record type.  The default is A. dig _acme-challenge.imap.lrau.net <http://acme-challenge.imap.lrau.net>. txt will likely give you better results Timothe Litt ACM Distinguis

Re: Advice on balancing web traffic using geoip ACls

2020-02-23 Thread Timothe Litt
r effort, which may be worthwhile if it allows you to concentrate on your unique value proposition. Timothe Litt ACM Distinguished Engineer -- This communication may not represent the ACM or my employer's views, if any, on the matters discussed. On 22-Feb-20 20:25,

Re: A policy for removing named.conf options.

2019-07-07 Thread Timothe Litt
section 659.712 for details" - and don't comment out the option!  A log file listing all files modified should be produced.  --fix would shift the burden of finding the affected options from the user to software - making it (a) more likely to happen (b) easier - especially for configuratio

Re: allow-update in global options (was Re: bind and certbot with dns-challenge)

2019-03-17 Thread Timothe Litt
e view syntax there, although in chapter 5 the descriptions on p.97 says "only zone, not options or view". My 3.5¢ (USD, but your local currency will do :-) Timothe Litt ACM Distinguished Engineer -- This communication may not represent the ACM or my employer&

Re: bind and certbot with dns-challenge

2019-03-17 Thread Timothe Litt
metimes they introduce bugs, or ideas that work in one context but not another. They're responsive to criticism & contributions.  But name-calling is generally not an effective way to get anyone to help you. Timothe Litt ACM Distinguished Engineer -- This communicati

Re: named cpu usage pretty high because of dns_dnssec_findzonekeys2 -> file not found

2019-03-11 Thread Timothe Litt
On 11-Mar-19 03:52, Mark Andrews wrote: > Because you removed the key from disk before it was removed from the zone. > Presumably named > was logging other error messages before you removed the key from disk or the > machine was off > for a period or you mismanaged the key roll and named keep th

Re: Forward zone inside a view

2019-02-12 Thread Timothe Litt
s not appear to be), those answers are not helpful.  Even though they are correct in other contexts. Timothe Litt ACM Distinguished Engineer -- This communication may not represent the ACM or my employer's views, if any, on the matters discussed. > On 12-Feb-1

Re: Forward zone inside a view

2019-02-11 Thread Timothe Litt
t to set up distinct address pools - and possibly VLANs. DNS is the wrong hammer for this nail.  Whether you should hammer the nail at all is a political, not a technical issue. Timothe Litt ACM Distinguished Engineer -- This communication may not represent the ACM or my

Re: forward all but ANY requests

2018-11-30 Thread Timothe Litt
On 30-Nov-18 08:14, Erich Eckner wrote: > On 30.11.18 12:26, Timothe Litt wrote: >> On 30-Nov-18 06:04, Erich Eckner wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm running a bind9 name server (9.13.4 on debian) which forwards some >>> zone (onion.) to tor's

Re: forward all but ANY requests

2018-11-30 Thread Timothe Litt
ached.  It's a diagnostic. You have to ask explicitly for the record types that you want. Many people have fallen into the trap of thinking that an ANY query will return all records in the DNS, and assume that therefore it can be used to make fewer queries.  You're not the first. A

Re: dig @ipv6-address

2018-11-29 Thread Timothe Litt
()) tried to translate the string as a hostname.  Hence the error. It's really not in anyone's interest when people post obfuscated questions... Timothe Litt ACM Distinguished Engineer -- This communication may not repres

Re: Method of writing zone files

2018-11-13 Thread Timothe Litt
s on the details of your operational environment -- and not on the minutiae of BINDs implementation. Timothe Litt ACM Distinguished Engineer -- This communication may not represent the ACM or my employer's views, if any, on the matters discussed. On 12-Nov-18 14:39, Marcus Fre

Re: Dropping queries from some well-known ports

2018-08-03 Thread Timothe Litt
A. [Although this is a security issue, I'm not revealing anything new here.  The commit is 12 years old.  It has been standard advice for many years not to run these services on the public internet.  If anyone IS running them(I think NIST is still running the time services), they should know the

Re: Authoritative dns with private IP for hostname

2018-07-27 Thread Timothe Litt
On 27-Jul-18 11:59, Elias Pereira wrote: > hello, > > Can an authoritative dns for a domain, eg mydomain.tdl, have a > hostname, example, wordpress.mydomain.tdl with a private IP? > > Would this be accessible from the internet via hostname, if I did a > nat on the firewall? > > -- > Elias Pereira

Re: tool for finding undelegated children in your DNS

2018-07-27 Thread Timothe Litt
tensive checks (dnsviz is oriented around DNSSEC, but does many other checks). It's a good idea to run one or the other regardless of this point issue.  Actually - I run both. Of course the usual caveats about stealth (unlisted) servers apply. Timothe Litt ACM Distinguished Engineer ---

Re: PKCS#11 vs OpenSSL (BIND Future Development Question)

2018-06-03 Thread Timothe Litt
n switch to OpenSSL, it seems the best long-run option.  If you can't, (or are encouraged not to by other customers), you could solve a lot of the customer pain by making the provider loadable. For entropy, I use a mixture of USB keys and CPU hardware generators.  As I may have mentioned

Re: Should we bundle the MaxMind GeoIP db?

2018-05-30 Thread Timothe Litt
On 30-May-18 17:27, Victoria Risk wrote: > Hello GeoIP users, > > We are aware that Maxmind is discontinuing their older free GeoLite > location database and replacing it with a new database with a new > format (GeoLite2). https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/geolite2/ > > We have an issue open in

Re: BIND Server running but not responding

2018-04-18 Thread Timothe Litt
On 18-Apr-18 09:51, Admin Hardy wrote: > > I would be so grateful of your help in this issue. > > I am running BIND 9 on Windows 7 > Service "ISC BIND" shows as started up > Warren's right.  And change your rndc-key's secret ASAP. T

Re: Re: Suggestions for a distributed DNS zone hosting solution I'm designing

2018-03-09 Thread Timothe Litt
iness. noc.esgob.com has a recently expired certificate, and redirects to one line text page (his name). The github repository is empty. So it appears to be defunct. Timothe Litt ACM Distinguished Engineer -- This communication may not represent the ACM or my employer'

Re: Re: DNSSEC validation without current time

2017-12-18 Thread Timothe Litt
ing offset is -2.234 sec (-0.206 PPM) (2) 20 ppm is ~ one min/month.  Typical crystals can be 100 ppm or more (depending on temperature & PCB layout), so 5 min/month.  TSIG fudge is nominally 5 min, so resyncing every 1-2 weeks is close enough.  And also close enough for sane DNSSEC conf

Re: Re: DNSSEC validation without current time

2017-12-15 Thread Timothe Litt
s good. See https://www.adafruit.com/?q=ultimate%20gps - I'm not affiliated with Adafruit, and while I've looked at the specs, don't have direct experience.  YMMV. Enjoy. Timothe Litt ACM Distinguished Engineer -- This communication may not represent the A

Re: DNSSEC validation without current time

2017-12-15 Thread Timothe Litt
ime early in boot - and make sure that dependencies on a valid time are properly expressed in your startup scripts. Bottom line: your problem is getting a reasonable time, not with the consumer(s). Timothe Litt ACM Distinguished Engineer -- This communication may not rep

Re: DNAME usage?

2017-11-21 Thread Timothe Litt
On 17-Nov-17 18:04, Mark Andrews wrote: > DYN used to just require a TSIG signed update request set to a server > specified in > a SRV record. Depends on which service.  The one I referred to is the one that was popular (free) for people who wanted to reach a machine on a dynamic IP address.  Beca

Re: Re: DNAME usage?

2017-11-17 Thread Timothe Litt
On 17-Nov-17 14:48, Mark Andrews wrote: > Alternatively use a http server that can update the records for the > interfaces it is listening on. > > This sort of thing is possible. Named gets informed by the OS when addresses > get added and removed. It currently just adds and removes listening s

Re: Re: checkhints: view “internal”: b.root-servers.net/AAAA (2001:500:200::b) extra record in hints

2017-09-10 Thread Timothe Litt
of your time is to ignore them... The effort of maintaining a private copy of the root hints isn't worthwhile. Timothe Litt ACM Distinguished Engineer -- This communication may not represent the ACM or my employer's views, if any, on the matters discussed. On 09-S

Re: Re: make AAAA type the default for dig

2017-06-14 Thread Timothe Litt
On the original topic, it would be nice to have a dig option that returned both A and with one command. Since it does this, I tend to use 'host' (note that host -v gives the same response detail as dig -t A ; dig -t ; and dig -t MX). On the other remarks, inline. On 14-Jun-17 21:09, Mar

Re: RE: Providing GeoIP information for servers

2017-05-11 Thread Timothe Litt
d and see if they'll fix your address. https://support.maxmind.com/geoip-data-correction-request/ They may require evidence that Comcast has delegated the address to you. Timothe Litt ACM Distinguished Engineer -- This communication may not represent the ACM or my employer

Re: RDRAND, etc [ wasRe: Slow zone signing with ECDSA

2017-04-20 Thread Timothe Litt
And it's always fun to dream up theoretical threats. By the way, have you seen Mark Andrews recently? How sure are you that he hasn't been replaced by aliens? Or a really good chatbot? Has he been Turing tested recently? (And can we trust the test, er, certificate?) Timot

Re: Re: Slow zone signing with ECDSA

2017-04-19 Thread Timothe Litt
I don't believe named makes a distinction...you get to pick one for everything. Timothe Litt ACM Distinguished Engineer -- This communication may not represent the ACM or my employer's views, if any, on the matters discussed. _

Re: Re: Bind Queries log file format

2017-02-04 Thread Timothe Litt
On 04-Feb-17 04:27, Phil Mayers wrote: > On 03/02/17 16:45, Mukund Sivaraman wrote: > >> The query log is getting more fields at the end of it such as >> CLIENT-SUBNET logging. > > Although it would be super-disruptive, has any thought been given to > moving to an entirely new log format, for exam

Re: Re: DNSSEC validation failures for www.hrsa.gov

2016-06-25 Thread Timothe Litt
-- 1.0.1 [New Rules] If this is correct, the project website for Eagle DNS would appear to be: http://www.unlogic.se/projects/eagledns It seems a rather odd choice for a .gov (US Health and Human Services) owned domain...though one never knows what IT outsourcing will produce :-) Timothe L

Re: Writeable file already in use

2016-01-05 Thread Timothe Litt
nssec maintain saves a lot of work, or the next technology comes along. To misappropriate a K&R quote - "Your constant is my variable". Or the ever popular "If you don't take the time to do it right, you'll have to make the time to do it over...and over again".

Re: Re: intermittent SERVFAIL with a DLV domain

2015-12-24 Thread Timothe Litt
f.1.0.0.0.8.1.0.a.2.ip6.arpa//IN': > 2a01:8000:1ffa:f003:bc9d:1dff:fe9b:7466#53 > 23-Dec-2015 13:20:54.398 lame-servers: info: broken trust chain resolving > '1.0.0.0.3.2.1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.2.0.0.f.a.f.f.1.0.0.0.8.1.0.a.2.ip6.arpa/A/IN': > 217.168.153.95#53 > &g

Re: Install BIND 9.9.7-P2 to fix vulnerability CVE-2015-5477

2015-09-08 Thread Timothe Litt
ble building with openssl. Make sure that you have the openssl-dev RPMs installed. Don't try to build that from source; RedHat heavily patches it & other packages depend on the changes. Switching to the RedHat version of named may be your best option. This should not be difficul

Re: Install BIND 9.9.7-P2 to fix vulnerability CVE-2015-5477

2015-09-07 Thread Timothe Litt
have too many patch conflicts to resolve. After you've done this once or twice, you'll want to revisit you need for local changes - either decide they're not that important, or offer them to ISC. Maintaining a private version is work. Timothe Litt ACM Distinguished Engineer --

Re: Re: Identify source of "rndc reconfig" command?

2015-08-25 Thread Timothe Litt
ize & doing a reconfig to close/reopen the log file. (In which case, report a bug in the log manager's config - named's own log file management avoids all those hassles.) Timothe Litt ACM Distinguished Engineer -- This communication may not represent the ACM

Re: DNSSEC secondary (free) - Was - Re: Can I run two name servers on one host with two IP addresses?

2015-08-20 Thread Timothe Litt
On 20-Aug-15 10:50, /dev/rob0 wrote: > On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 02:07:57PM +0200, Robert Senger wrote: >> There are a number of providers out there offering secondary >> dns services for free or for a few bucks/month. Even DNSSEC >> is possible for free. > This is good news! I knew there were sever

Re: Of long names...

2015-03-15 Thread Timothe Litt
the code than by experiment. I think that's conclusive, which is why I stepped into the support morass. I'm tempted to move the domain to my own servers, but I really hate to let vendors get away with customer-unfriendly support. Other people don't have th

Re: Of long names...

2015-03-15 Thread Timothe Litt
nce. And since there's no problem, they refuse to escalate. I've made an out-of-band attempt to get the attention of their management. FWIW, bind is quite happy to accept these names in a domain where I run my own servers. Timothe Litt ACM Distinguished Engineer

Of long names...

2015-03-15 Thread Timothe Litt
15031503 28800 7200 604800 3600 ;; Query time: 7 msec ;; SERVER: 192.168.148.4#53(192.168.148.4) ;; WHEN: Sun Mar 15 07:01:16 EDT 2015 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 216 I have verified that bind is happy to create and resolve similar names... Oh, and the third record does resolve, which makes me suspic

Re: BIND DNSSEC Guide draft

2015-01-04 Thread Timothe Litt
reduces management overhead. I know generating the hash for that with openssl isn't fun. But, https://www.huque.com/bin/gen_tlsa is the easiest way that I've found to generate TLSA records. And it supports SPKI selectors... So you might want to point to it. I'll try to have a clos

Re: Re: Wrong NSEC3 for wildcard cname

2014-11-20 Thread Timothe Litt
On 19-Nov-14 19:03, Graham Clinch wrote: > Hi Casey & List folks, >> My apologies - this was actually a bug in DNSViz. The NSEC3 computation >> was being performed on the wrong name (the wrong origin was being >> applied). It should be fixed now, as shown in: >> >> http://dnsviz.net/d/foo.cnamete

Re: recursive lookups for UNSECURE names fail if dlv.isc.org is unreachable and dnssec-lookaside is 'auto'

2014-08-28 Thread Timothe Litt
On 27-Aug-14 20:35, Doug Barton wrote: > On 8/27/14 3:03 PM, Timothe Litt wrote: >> So you really meant that validating resolvers should only consult DLV if >> their administrator knows that users are looking-up names that are in >> the DLV? That's how I read your

Re: recursive lookups for UNSECURE names fail if dlv.isc.org is unreachable and dnssec-lookaside is 'auto'

2014-08-27 Thread Timothe Litt
On 27-Aug-14 14:54, Doug Barton wrote: > On 8/26/14 10:35 AM, Timothe Litt wrote: >> I think this is misleading, or at least poorly worded and subject to >> misinterpretation. > > I chose my words carefully, and I stand by them. > The OP was asking about configuring a res

Re: Re: recursive lookups for UNSECURE names fail if dlv.isc.org is unreachable and dnssec-lookaside is 'auto'

2014-08-26 Thread Timothe Litt
not there, and until we are, my advice is that resolvers consult the DLV. It's not perfect, but it's what we have. See dnssec-deployment for other discussions of this (sometimes controversial) topic. Timothe Litt ACM Distinguished Engineer -- This communication may not re

Re: "clients-per-query" vs "max-clients-per-query"

2014-06-08 Thread Timothe Litt
I guess I confuse easily...still Either I don't understand what it's doing, or I don't understand why it's doing what it is, or what it's doing is confused. Sigh. On 08-Jun-14 14:24, Evan Hunt wrote: > On Sun, Jun 08, 2014 at 09:45:23AM -0400, Timothe Litt wrote: >

Re: Re: "clients-per-query" vs "max-clients-per-query"

2014-06-08 Thread Timothe Litt
this what response rate limiting is for? Given RRL, does this still make sense? For the latter, separating the measurement/threshold tuning from the decision to drop would seem to produce more sensible behavior than dropping every 5i-th packet. And for it to make any sense at all, it must be adju

Re: Re: AIX and 9.9.5 compiling

2014-05-09 Thread Timothe Litt
estions on what should be done more officially/thoroughly. (Including routine builds during development.) Including ARM - native and cross-compiled - would support parts of the community that don't get much attention (nor make much noise.) Embedded and cross-architecture

Re: Re: AIX and 9.9.5 compiling

2014-05-09 Thread Timothe Litt
e. These tend to run themselves. And they don't use much power, so a fairly inexpensive UPS will keep router, modem, phone up for many hours. I ported bind to optware many years ago for this. And no, I'm not suggesting that bind should be run on your favorite smartphone... Timothe Lit

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