Re: empty-zones-enable vs. forwards for rfc1918 reverse zones

2015-07-01 Thread Alexander Bochmann
...on Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 09:58:52PM +1000, Mark Andrews wrote: > Upgrade. > 3653. [func] Create delegations for all "children" of empty zones > except "forward first". [RT #34826] Ugh... Seems that's in bind 9.8.5... Guess I kinda deserve something like th

empty-zones-enable vs. forwards for rfc1918 reverse zones

2015-07-01 Thread Alexander Bochmann
Hi, I have an internal bind server that has several forward zones pointing to other internal name servers that carry reverse zones for rfc1918 networks we are using in our networks (let's say something like 0.20.10.in-addr.arpa). This works fine until I either set empty-zones-enable yes; or inc

Difference between multiple NS and NS having multiple A

2013-02-17 Thread Alexander Gurvitz
r the same ns1/ns2, instead of advising each user to add ns3..nsX to their parent zones. Thanks, Alexander Gurvitz, net-me.net ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-

Re: named crashed

2012-12-11 Thread Alexander Gurvitz
Linh, >From my personal experience - BIND have lots of such bugs. Upgrade to the latest version (minor one - 9.8.4-P1, not 9.9.2) and see if the error reappears. If yes, report it to bind9-b...@isc.org (if the bug is not reproducible anyway even on 9.8.3-P1, I'd report it too). Alexander

Re: Upstart job for BIND9

2012-12-01 Thread Alexander Gurvitz
> I don't think it's wise to respawn named without knowing why it crashed. > This could lead to repeated crashed and system overload. 1. I have a system whose only reason to exist is running bind, once bind stops I don't mind the whole system overload, crash or go to hell. 2. When I've seen that m

Re: Upstart job for BIND9

2012-11-29 Thread Alexander Gurvitz
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > famous assertion failures? What system do you run the BIND on? Shouldn't > you > better upgrade to version that has no famous assertion failures? Well, of course it's extremely exaggerated, sorry if I offended someone. But crashes

Re: Upstart job for BIND9

2012-11-29 Thread Alexander Gurvitz
Carsten, The script in my original question (it's in the P.S. at the bottom of my first mail) seem to work for me. It does not cover all the extra logic of the ubuntu default init.d/bind9, but I personally don't need that (ubuntu script may update resolv.conf, and also checks if there's a network

Upstart job for BIND9

2012-11-29 Thread Alexander Gurvitz
daemon forks - if it forks once, "expect fork" should be specified, and if a daemon forks twice, it should be "expect daemon". Then upstart will wait for that forkings and will monitor the final PID). Thanks in advance, Alexander Gurvitz, net-me.net P.S My /etc/init/bind.co

Re: Seeking Advice on DNSSEC Algorithm Rollover

2012-06-23 Thread Alexander Gurvitz
e metadata and should remove the key and all the signatures at that time. You don't need nsupdate nor update-policy for that. Regards, Alexander Gurvitz, net-me.net ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe

Re: Moving DNS out of non-cooperative provider

2012-06-19 Thread Alexander Gurvitz
> > 3282. [bug] Restrict the TTL of NS RRset to no more than that > >of the old NS RRset when replacing it. >[RT #27792] [RT #27884] > Just to clarify - does this rule applies also while replacing parent NS records with (more credible) ch

Re: Moving DNS out of non-cooperative provider

2012-06-19 Thread Alexander Gurvitz
Mark, > 3282. [bug] Restrict the TTL of NS RRset to no more than that >of the old NS RRset when replacing it. >[RT #27792] [RT #27884] "TTL of the old NS RRset" here means the current "remaining" TTL, or the original TTL value as recei

Re: Single-key rollover

2012-06-19 Thread Alexander Gurvitz
> > > That paragraph from 4.1.4 is just plain wrong and following it will > lead to cached data that can't be validated once retrieved. > > Lets say that all data in the zone has a TTL of 3600. > > At T - 3500 you have retrieved the DNSKEY while validating a MX RRset. > At T - 100 you lookup a A re

Moving DNS out of non-cooperative provider

2012-06-18 Thread Alexander Gurvitz
com have TTL of 3600. Thus each hour ns.isp.com queries ns.OLDprovider.net, with each query gets new NS record, and... refreshes the NS TTL ? Will ns.isp.com EVER query ns.NEWprovider.net ? I'd be happy to know how BIND behaves, but also how other servers may behave in this case. Regards, Al

Single-key rollover

2012-06-18 Thread Alexander Gurvitz
with BIND, am I getting it right ? Thanks in advance, Alexander Gurvitz, net-me.net ___ Please visit 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/mailma

Re: BIND ignores changes in zonefiles

2012-06-14 Thread Alexander Gurvitz
ND reports there. Alexander Gurvitz, net-me.net ___ Please visit 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

Re: TTL for name servers

2012-06-05 Thread Alexander Gurvitz
Hi. TTL returned by YOUR zone authoritative server will (at least should) be preferred by caches. Matt Larson from verisign explained on these: http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/2004-07/msg00255.html Regards, Alexander Gurvitz, net-me.net

Re: Clarification on wildcard falls into glue records

2012-05-15 Thread Alexander Gurvitz
possibly expected response of the MX record attached to *.example.com. Regards, Alexander, net-me.net On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 9:34 AM, rams wrote: > Hi, > I have NS record points a record [A/] which is falls into wildcard . But > when I query for NS record against bind, we are not ge

Re: random-device purpose in DNSSEC

2012-05-13 Thread Alexander Gurvitz
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 12:57 AM, Mark Andrews wrote: > > > > What random device used for ? > > ... I don't get why signing a zone requires any randomness. > > It doesn't for RSA.  However DSA does require randomness. > >  > Does BIND really needs that entropy, and how much ? > > Yes, if you are u

Multiple zones with single key pair

2012-05-10 Thread Alexander Gurvitz
Hello, Multiple zones with a single key - is possible with BIND ? Regards, Alexander Gurvitz, net-me.net ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org

Re: KSK stays published 3 days after delete time

2012-05-10 Thread Alexander Gurvitz
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 11:04 PM, Axel Rau wrote: > >> Did you delete it manually (at 2012-05-07T14:55:02.569706) ? > Yes; i.e. my script. >> If so, maybe it's still in the zone because BIND doesn't know the timing >> metadata anymore ? > I thought that would be in the journal or internal reposito

random-device purpose in DNSSEC

2012-05-10 Thread Alexander Gurvitz
s are low at entropy, and BIND default random-device is /dev/random, and it (the device) blocks when there's no entropy available. Does BIND really needs that entropy, and how much ? Regards, Alexander Gurvitz, net-me.net ___ Please visit http

Re: expected covering NSEC3, got an exact match

2011-09-23 Thread Alexander Gall
On 22 Sep 2011 22:57:17 +0100, Chris Thompson said: > There was some correspondence last year about this warning message, but > this seems to be caused by something new. Back then it was due to a bug in dnssec-signzone that caused NSEC3 records to remain in the zone during incremental signing wh

What does "addnode: NSEC node already exists" mean?

2011-08-11 Thread Alexander Gall
I have a signed zone for which dnssec-signzone and named-checkzone of BIND 9.8.0-P4 emit the message in the subject several times. This appears to happen in loadnode() defined in lib/dns/rbtdb.c and has something to do with an "auxiliary tree for NSEC", whatever exactly that is. It doesn't tell m

Re: DNSKEY NODATA responses not cached

2011-01-12 Thread Alexander Gall
operly handle turning on DNSSEC for an existing zone, which involves having to wait for cached DNSKEY NODATA to expire from caches before adding the DS. > On 11/01/11 4:52 PM, "Chris Thompson" wrote: >> On Jan 11 2011, Alexander Gall wrote: >> >>> It appears

DNSKEY NODATA responses not cached

2011-01-11 Thread Alexander Gall
It appears that NODATA responses for qtype=DNSKEY are not cached if DNSSEC validation is enabled (tested with 9.7.2-P3). What is the rationale behind this? -- Alex ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listi

DNSSEC and Bind 9.3.6

2010-11-03 Thread alexander
erences? Sorry the basic questions... it's just because I think it's a good idea share my worries in this case. []s Alexander Brazil ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

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

2010-11-01 Thread alexander
> I don't think the standard BIND RPMs for the above have support for 'managed-keys' as the highest version they go is up to BIND 9.3. Thanks Antonio and Kevin. My systems are using Bind 9.4. I'm going to upgrade to 9.7 as you suggested. Thank you

Unknown option 'managed-keys' - why?

2010-10-31 Thread alexander
d.conf' and I couldn't found the option. But despite that I think I'm doing something really stupid, but I can't find what. And, yes, I put that option into named.conf file, just below options block: options { # some options h

Re: zero SOA TTL - still best practice?

2010-08-26 Thread Alexander Gall
Hello Karl On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 23:17:29 +1000, Karl Auer said: > Some time ago (at least six years) I wrote a program that, among many > other related operations, creates new zones for a nameserver. This > program creates new zones that have a TTL value of zero for the SOA > record. > That's wh

Re: . SOA: got insecure response

2010-07-22 Thread Alexander Gall
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 07:15:25 +1000, Mark Andrews said: > In message <19526.43429.234698.104...@hadron.switch.ch>, Alexander Gall > writes: >> On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:20:21 +0200, Gilles Massen >> said: >> >> > Hello, >> > Since enabling the ro

Re: . SOA: got insecure response

2010-07-21 Thread Alexander Gall
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:20:21 +0200, Gilles Massen said: > Hello, > Since enabling the root TA in my resolver, I keep seeing from time to time: > 21-Jul-2010 08:52:27.929 dnssec: debug 3: validating @0x134fe7e8: . > SOA: attempting insecurity proof > 21-Jul-2010 08:52:27.929 dnssec: debug 3:

Re: Forwarded PTR records not working properly

2010-04-02 Thread Alexander Fortin
d.conf and all files therein included, then check again. (Make sure your zone db file serial number is incremented on every change.) Then rndc reload when needed...etc.. -- Alexander Fortin Studio Synthesis srl Network & System Administrator Via Callegari 10, Brescia - (+39)030/8336089 http:/

Re: Forwarded PTR records not working properly

2010-04-02 Thread Alexander Fortin
SECTION: ;11.20.168.192.in-addr.arpa.IN PTR ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: 168.192.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN SOA localhost. root.localhost. 1 604800 86400 2419200 86400 ;; Query time: 3 msec ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1) ;; WHEN: Fri Apr 2 16:24:36 2010 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 94 -- Alexan

Forwarded PTR records not working properly

2010-04-02 Thread Alexander Fortin
rward; forward only; forwarders { 192.168.20.21; }; }; zone "20.168.192.in-addr.arpa" { type forward; forward only; forwarders { 192.168.20.21; }; }; Any hint? Why does this work just with "host"? Thanks! -- Alexander Fortin ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: Queries for NSEC3 hashed owner names

2010-02-05 Thread Alexander Gall
On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:18:35 +1100, Mark Andrews said: > In message <19306.52059.975062.462...@hadron.switch.ch>, Alexander Gall > writes: >> >> All of those are NSEC3-agnostic. They should not do any DNSSEC >> processing for the ch zone, because they don't

Re: Queries for NSEC3 hashed owner names

2010-02-04 Thread Alexander Gall
On 04 Feb 2010 15:39:55 +, Chris Thompson said: > On Feb 4 2010, Alexander Gall wrote: >> Of the 60 sources in my sample, >> 26 responded to version queries. All of them identified themselves as >> some version of BIND >> >> 5 "9.5.0-P2" >&

Queries for NSEC3 hashed owner names

2010-02-04 Thread Alexander Gall
Our authoritative servers for the signed TLD ch (NSEC3, no opt-out) are receiving queries whose qnames are the NSEC3 hashed owner names of existing delegeations. I suspect that this is a BIND issue (see below), hence my post to this list. What I'm seeing is stuff like this: 03-Feb-2010 17:36:15.

Re: Stats collection script for BIND 9.5 (and greater?)

2008-12-16 Thread Alexander Gall
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:44:39 -0800, JINMEI Tatuya / $(b...@l@C#:H(B said: > At Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:18:21 +0100, > Alexander Gall wrote: >> > http://members.iinet.com.au/~pyard...@ihug.com.au/#%5B%5BBIND%209.5%20DNS%20Stats%5D%5D >> >> This looks useful, thanks.

Re: Stats collection script for BIND 9.5 (and greater?)

2008-12-15 Thread Alexander Gall
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:12:21 +1100, Peter Yardley said: > I have written a script to collect data from the XML stats channel of a > Bind 9.5+ DNS server. It works with Cricket and should work with MRTG > and Cacti. > You can get it here... > http://members.iinet.com.au/~pyard...@ihug.com.au/ >