Re: what do you use for logging?

2013-01-18 Thread Niall O'Reilly
On 17 Jan 2013, at 20:58, Mike Hoskins (michoski) wrote: > Syslog as the default is perfectly fine with us. Please keep that as the default, following the principle of least astonishment. > I do also use the rotated file method a few places, so hoping that doesn't > disappear.

Re: what do you use for logging?

2013-01-18 Thread Niall O'Reilly
On 18 Jan 2013, at 06:27, Jan-Piet Mens wrote: >> Could "CLI utility" be man(1) and info(1)? :-) > > It could, yes, but `b10-msg NNN` isn't going to break BIND 10's > development budget (I hope), +1 > and I feel it to be more practical than > scrolling through a man page with 900+ err

Re: what do you use for logging?

2013-01-18 Thread Niall O'Reilly
On 17 Jan 2013, at 18:33, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > BIND 9 by default has logging using syslog, using its daemon facility, > and logging of info or higher. > > Is using syslog a sane default for new installations or when using > official vendor packages with their startup scripts? Defin

Re: what do you use for logging?

2013-01-18 Thread Shane Kerr
All, On Friday, 2013-01-18 10:01:49 +, "Niall O'Reilly" wrote: > > On 18 Jan 2013, at 06:27, Jan-Piet Mens wrote: > > >> Could "CLI utility" be man(1) and info(1)? :-) > > > > It could, yes, but `b10-msg NNN` isn't going to break BIND 10's > > development budget (I hope), > > +1 >

Re: lame-servers: error (FORMERR) resolving [something]

2013-01-18 Thread Daniele
These are the outputs. I also attach the file containing them. ; <<>> DiG 9.8.1-P1 <<>> ns . +norec +noedns @198.41.0.4 ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 25625 ;; flags: qr ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 13, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 14 ;; QUESTION

Re: lame-servers: error (FORMERR) resolving [something]

2013-01-18 Thread Warren Kumari
On Jan 18, 2013, at 9:44 AM, Daniele wrote: > These are the outputs. I also attach the file containing them. > > [ SNIP ] Weird…. Do things work well enough for: dig +short rs.dns-oarc.net txt ? Can you also do: the following queries starting with the slightly less plain DNS query

transparently forwarding a zone

2013-01-18 Thread Garsiot, Thomas
Hi, I have an issue with domain forwarding. I'm managing public DNS servers for, say, mydomain.com. We're currently setting a storage system which relies on DNS for load balancing. The system is made of 4 nodes with IP addresses 10.0.0.1, 2, 3, 4. The vendor recommands a stub zone to be created

Re: transparently forwarding a zone

2013-01-18 Thread Kevin Darcy
What do you have against Internet clients querying the storage device? It's obvious that the storage device wants to serve that part of the DNS namespace. If you don't want the clients to query the device "directly" you could do it through a NAT, or proxy, or whatever. Anything other than "dire

Re: MNAME not a listed NS record

2013-01-18 Thread Chris Buxton
On Jan 16, 2013, at 1:01 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Jan 16, 2013, at 12:40 PM, Dave Warren wrote: >> Is there anything technically wrong with having a SOA MNAME field that isn't >> listed as a NS record? > > Sure. The SOA MNAME is expected to be the "primary master" nameserver for > the zone;

Re: MNAME not a listed NS record

2013-01-18 Thread Tim Maestas
nsupdate will use the MNAME regardless of whether it is matched by a NS record. ISC dhcpd, as you indicated, does not unless overridden manually via a zone statement. -Tim On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Chris Buxton wrote: > On Jan 16, 2013, at 1:01 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: >> On Jan 16, 2013,

Re: lame-servers: error (FORMERR) resolving [something]

2013-01-18 Thread Mark Andrews
In message , Daniele writes: > These are the outputs. I also attach the file containing them. > > > ; <<>> DiG 9.8.1-P1 <<>> ns . +norec +noedns @198.41.0.4 > ;; global options: +cmd > ;; Got answer: > ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 25625 > ;; flags: qr ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWE