"Recursive no;" implications?

2014-01-21 Thread LuKreme
If you set recursion no; in named.conf, you need to set the forwarders as well. Is there anything else that must be done so that DNS queries still work? If you have master/slave servers you should specify allow-recursion for your subnet instead, right? I'd you do this, you don't need to set forw

Re: "Recursive no;" implications?

2014-01-21 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <09dcbf8a-3d91-430d-beee-4e7287642...@kreme.com>, LuKreme writes: > If you set recursion no; in named.conf, you need to set the forwarders as wel > l. Is there anything else that must be done so that DNS queries still work? Forwarders will have no effect once recursion no; is set as fo

Re: "Recursive no;" implications?

2014-01-21 Thread Steven Carr
On 21 January 2014 09:03, LuKreme wrote: > If you set recursion no; in named.conf, you need to set the forwarders as > well. Is there anything else that must be done so that DNS queries still work? Forwarding will not work if you don't have recursion enabled. With recursion disabled you are a pu

Re: Non-responsive name servers when started during boot on OS X Mavericks 10.9

2014-01-21 Thread Carsten Strotmann
Hi Chris, Chris Buxton writes: > I’d bet that the package from Men & Mice includes this script or an > equivalent workaround. When I wrote the original script I wrote about > above, I worked at Men & Mice. Your script or the sleep timer is not in the package anymore, but maybe it should be. I d

Re: Non-responsive name servers when started during boot on OS X Mavericks 10.9

2014-01-21 Thread Larry Stone
On Jan 21, 2014, at 5:32 AM, Carsten Strotmann wrote: > Hi Chris, > > Chris Buxton writes: > >> I’d bet that the package from Men & Mice includes this script or an >> equivalent workaround. When I wrote the original script I wrote about >> above, I worked at Men & Mice. > > Your script or th

Re: classless ptr setup

2014-01-21 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 01/20/2014 11:21 AM, Jim Pazarena wrote: Thank you for this. I am familiar with the setup; I suppose that my question was unclear. Can the SAME named.conf handle BOTH the /24 cname assignments AND the /25 in-addr.arpa records. Which sounds like a dumb question, but I thought named may not li

db- files on secondary dns server

2014-01-21 Thread Ayca Taskin (Garanti Teknoloji)
Hi All, We're using Bind DNS server with version BIND 9.9.2 as a secondary (slave) dns server. We saw there is a lot of files starting with "db-" under /var/named directory and updating continuously. does anybody know what it is? Ayca Taskin Mimari ve BT Güvenlik Yönetimi Mühendis Evren Mah

Re: db- files on secondary dns server

2014-01-21 Thread Steven Carr
On 21 January 2014 13:41, Ayca Taskin (Garanti Teknoloji) < ayc...@garanti.com.tr> wrote: > We’re using Bind DNS server with version BIND 9.9.2 as a secondary > (slave) dns server. We saw there is a lot of files starting with “db-“ > under /var/named directory and updating continuously. does an

Re: Upgrading from 9.8.3 to 9.9.4

2014-01-21 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
On 01/16/14 16:39, Mike Hoskins (michoski) wrote: > -Original Message- > From: Mike Bernhardt > Date: Thursday, January 16, 2014 4:09 PM > To: "bind-users@lists.isc.org" > Subject: RE: Upgrading from 9.8.3 to 9.9.4 > >> Sorry for the double post, but I forgot to ask this: >> And if it

Re: additional section policy

2014-01-21 Thread Kevin Darcy
If the names of the referred nameservers are in the domain of the referral (e.g. *.example.com nameservers referred for the example.com delegation), then it is *mandatory* to fill in the Additional Section with the relevant A/ address records, since there is no other way for the referral to

Re: "Recursive no;" implications?

2014-01-21 Thread LuKreme
On 21 Jan 2014, at 02:12 , Mark Andrews wrote: >> If you have master/slave servers you should specify allow-recursion for your >> subnet instead, right? I'd you do this, you don't need to set forwarders, >> yes? > > Allow-recursion has no impact on master / slave zones. OK, so in order to lo

Re: Non-responsive name servers when started during boot on OS X Mavericks 10.9

2014-01-21 Thread LuKreme
On 18 Jan 2014, at 06:52 , Larry Stone wrote: > That is not the problem. In the launchd plist do you have something like NetworkState or maybe inetdCompatibility Wait to tell the system not to start bind until after the network is up? -- IT IS NOT YET MIDNIGHT? 'I shouldn'