Re: T_ANY

2010-03-23 Thread Barry Margolin
In article , Kevin Darcy wrote: > On 3/20/2010 5:29 PM, Tony Finch wrote: > > ANY queries are supposed to be used for debugging not for > > normal operations. > > > > > > At the risk of nitpicking your use of the term "supposed to be"... > > "ANY" queries (aka QTYPE=*), have pretty much be

Re: T_ANY

2010-03-23 Thread Hauke Lampe
Kevin Darcy wrote: > But I believe the QTYPE was > _originally_ intended to be a robust mechanism for fetching multiple > RRsets at a time.It just didn't work out that way... PowerDNS Recursor uses ANY to retrieve both A and records in one query: http://lwn.net/Articles/275823/ | * Full IP

Re: T_ANY

2010-03-22 Thread Kevin Darcy
On 3/20/2010 5:29 PM, Tony Finch wrote: ANY queries are supposed to be used for debugging not for normal operations. At the risk of nitpicking your use of the term "supposed to be"... "ANY" queries (aka QTYPE=*), have pretty much been reduced to a mere debugging tool, because of the stan

RE: T_ANY

2010-03-22 Thread Lightner, Jeff
--Original Message- From: bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water@lists.isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water@lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of Mark Andrews Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2010 9:29 PM To: Tony Finch Cc: bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: Re: T_ANY In message , Tony Fi nch writes

Re: T_ANY

2010-03-20 Thread Mark Andrews
In message , Tony Fi nch writes: > On Sat, 20 Mar 2010, Glenn English wrote: > > > > Just why qmail reports a T_ANY failure as a CNAME failure, I also don't > > know. > > This is a bug in qmail. It tries to canonicalize domains in the SMTP > envelope of outgoing messages. It originally did this b

Re: T_ANY

2010-03-20 Thread Tony Finch
On Sat, 20 Mar 2010, Glenn English wrote: > > Just why qmail reports a T_ANY failure as a CNAME failure, I also don't > know. This is a bug in qmail. It tries to canonicalize domains in the SMTP envelope of outgoing messages. It originally did this by performing CNAME queries on each domain, but t

Re: T_ANY

2010-03-20 Thread Glenn English
On Mar 20, 2010, at 10:12 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: > Have you compiled qmail yourself? Thanks, Florian, but it's fixed. The problem was that my PIX firewall's IDS blocks T_ANY queries by default, and Yahoo's qmail does T_ANY queries. I turned the block off in the PIX. I'm told that qmail '

Re: T_ANY

2010-03-20 Thread Florian Weimer
* Glenn English: >>> Hi. This is the qmail-send program at yahoo.com. > Both servers are Debian lenny, 'named -v' says BIND 9.5.1-P3, and > bind's config check says it's OK. But it has nothing to do with any > of that, I think, because the query works from inside. Have you compiled qmail yoursel

Re: T_ANY

2010-03-19 Thread Glenn English
On Mar 19, 2010, at 3:35 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote: > PIX, you say? They used to have a problem with DNS UDP packets over 512 > 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.) 6.3 fixed it. The comm

Re: T_ANY

2010-03-19 Thread Kevin Oberman
> From: Glenn English > Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:15:38 -0600 > Sender: bind-users-bounces+oberman=es@lists.isc.org > > > On Mar 19, 2010, at 2:30 PM, Lightner, Jeff wrote: > > > Maybe it's a difference between udp and tcp in your firewall? > > > > For most queries udp 53 is used but for

Re: T_ANY

2010-03-19 Thread Glenn English
On Mar 19, 2010, at 2:30 PM, Lightner, Jeff wrote: > Maybe it's a difference between udp and tcp in your firewall? > > For most queries udp 53 is used but for long packets it might switch to > tcp 53 - since you're doing an any you're going to get a lot more data. Don't think so. The router's

RE: T_ANY

2010-03-19 Thread Lightner, Jeff
Maybe it's a difference between udp and tcp in your firewall? For most queries udp 53 is used but for long packets it might switch to tcp 53 - since you're doing an any you're going to get a lot more data. -Original Message- From: bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water@lists.isc.org [m