Re: truncated responses vs. minimal-responses?

2012-11-30 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: I know. But there are cases you just have much of data in the DNS and what I am asking is, if BIND really does skip authority section, if it helps to avoid sending truncated packets. On 28.11.12 18:38, Tony Finch wrote: Yes it does. For example, have a look at re

Re: Upstart job for BIND9

2012-11-30 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
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? On 29.11.12 20:50, Alexander Gurvitz wrote: Well, of course it's extremely exaggerated,

Re:

2012-11-30 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 29.11.12 18:34, Jose Manuel Delgado G. wrote: about the other question, as to reduce the response time of my server when the domain does not exist? it is not the "domain does not exist" problem. This is the "the only nameserver for a domain times out" problem, which can be only avoided eithe

TCP retransmission counters for xfer

2012-11-30 Thread Mathias Wolkert
Hi In an attempt to catch slow zone transfers, I'd like to see some statistics for each TCP session running a xfer. As I'm running linux I had a look in /proc/net/tcp and if I read things right, the kernel is actually collecting the number of retransmissions for each session. netstat will not su

Re: truncated responses vs. minimal-responses?

2012-11-30 Thread Tony Finch
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > Nice to see. I'm seeing recommendations to set minimal-responses to avoid > truncation problem anywhere and I'd like to have documented somewhere that > it just won't help... It will reduce the likelihood of a fragmented response and therefore poor interactions w

Re:

2012-11-30 Thread Chris Buxton
On Nov 30, 2012, at 4:53 AM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: >> 2012/11/29 Chuck Swiger >>> You've got two nameservers for the domain per WHOIS as: >>> >>> Domain servers in listed order: >>> NS1.VIDEOLINEDVD.COM >>> NS2.VIDEOLINEDVD.COM >>> >>> ...but they don't have A records setup.

Re:

2012-11-30 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
2012/11/29 Chuck Swiger You've got two nameservers for the domain per WHOIS as: Domain servers in listed order: NS1.VIDEOLINEDVD.COM NS2.VIDEOLINEDVD.COM ...but they don't have A records setup. Your nameservers must have A records: On Nov 30, 2012, at 4:53 AM, Matus UHLAR - fan

Re:

2012-11-30 Thread Chris Buxton
On Nov 30, 2012, at 10:33 AM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: 2012/11/29 Chuck Swiger > You've got two nameservers for the domain per WHOIS as: > > Domain servers in listed order: > NS1.VIDEOLINEDVD.COM > NS2.VIDEOLINEDVD.COM > > ...but they don't have A

TCP retransmission counters for

2012-11-30 Thread Manson, John
Keep it simple. We use syslog-ng and named logging set to default. We get entries like this so it is easy to see who is talking to who and how long it is taking. Sample from one of our external servers. Redacted where necessary: Nov 27 09:42:44 local@mercury named[17686]: [ID 873579 daemon.info]

another performance tuning question

2012-11-30 Thread Adamiec, Lawrence
I must be doing something wrong. I ran queryperf and the results don't look right, 13 and 23 queries per second? What am I doing wrong? I ran the queryperf on the same machine that is running BIND. I got similar results when running against the master server. I ran the test one right after the

Re: another performance tuning question

2012-11-30 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Fri, 30 Nov 2012, Adamiec, Lawrence wrote: > I got similar results when running against the master server. Then why so many lost? >   Queries sent:         11000 queries >   Queries completed:    8968 queries >   Queries lost:         2032 queries ... >   Percentage completed:  81.53% >   Per