Re: Query Regarding NSEC RR in DNSSEC

2012-02-14 Thread Chris Buxton
prove the negative, and that happens by enumerating all the possible positive answers "near" the query. Regards, Chris Buxton BlueCat Networks On Feb 14, 2012, at 9:23 AM, Gaurav kansal wrote: > Dear Team, > > We have a Authenticated Response in DNSSEC through trust chain. >

Re: Efficacy of using short timeout values for an A record

2012-02-14 Thread Chris Buxton
ue to connect (and reconnect as needed) to whatever address was first retrieved via the stub resolver. Regards, Chris Buxton BlueCat Networks On Feb 14, 2012, at 2:59 AM, goran kent wrote: > Hi, > > I need to setup an A record for a machine who's IP might change > unexpectedly

Re: Efficacy of using short timeout values for an A record

2012-02-14 Thread Chris Buxton
data, but most implementations do not enable this. As I recall, the value has to be set in the source code before compiling the binary. Regards, Chris Buxton BlueCat Networks ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to un

Re: block ddns by name

2012-02-17 Thread Chris Buxton
t;*" name /^a-zA-Z0-9_\-/; }; > ? > > (For thos who don't speak regex: deny all names with something in it what is > no letter or digit or underscore or dash. Does a check-names policy achieve this? I'm honestly not sure. BTW: _ is not a valid host

Re: named.conf splitting

2012-02-17 Thread Chris Buxton
topic: http://www.isc.org/community/blog/201107/major-improvement-bind-9-startup-performance http://www.isc.org/community/blog/201107/isc-bind-981b3-provides-startup-performance-improvements Regards, Chris Buxton BlueCat Networks On Feb 17, 2012, at 1:24 AM, Nick Edwards wrote: > Hi, > In a

Re: bind public/private domain question

2012-02-21 Thread Chris Buxton
accepts it - BIND sends answer back to client, along with the best auth and add'l data it has in cache, which might be from the root zone - Client gets answer, but drops auth and add'l sections Harmless. Normal. Nothing to be worried about. Regards, Chris Buxton BlueCat Networks

Re: Configuring a domain slave to look up subdomain hosts

2012-02-28 Thread Chris Buxton
. Disable forwarding selectively or remove it from your architecture completely. Regards, Chris Buxton BlueCat Networks ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users

Re: Configuring a domain slave to look up subdomain hosts

2012-02-28 Thread Chris Buxton
on stub zones. Regards, Chris Buxton BlueCat Networks On Feb 28, 2012, at 3:11 PM, Mike Bernhardt wrote: > So, it seems that the stub zone only works as I expected if I disable ALL > forwarding- not just in the parent zone but also in global options. Is that > the expected behavior f

Re: problem with bind manually installation on debian

2012-03-07 Thread Chris Buxton
On Mar 7, 2012, at 9:15 AM, mustafa alhussona wrote: > hi > i have problem with installing bind (i tried 9.7.4,9.8.1,9.9.0 versions) > service manually on debian squeeze, the problem is the service is installed > but i cant find the configuration file and there is some error logs, please > can

Re: with subject: NS record for subzone definition

2012-03-13 Thread Chris Buxton
ate the NS records. If you are using the exact same set of servers for the subzone as for the child, and are not using DNSSEC, you can get away without the NS records, but you shouldn't get into this bad habit. Regards, Chris Buxton BlueCat Networks _

Re: masters ordering in named.conf

2012-03-26 Thread Chris Buxton
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Re: How to reset the serial number?

2012-03-26 Thread Chris Buxton
sure to reload the zone after each change, or if your zone is dynamic, use a dynamic update that adds the SOA record again and sets the new serial number. Regards, Chris Buxton BlueCat Networks ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-

Re: journal rollforward failed: journal out of sync with zone

2012-04-12 Thread Chris Buxton
ever mechanism caused it to be created), then you have to get rid of your cron job, or modify how it works. Arbitrarily replacing a zone file when there's a journal file can cause exactly the problem you're seeing. Chris Buxton BlueCat Networks > On 04/12/2012 02:03 PM, Phil Mayers

Re: Bind forwarding...

2012-04-15 Thread Chris Buxton
the name server (or some other host), rather than getting the real answer from Apple's name servers, what you want is an authoritative zone, not forwarding. zone "guzzoni.apple.com" { type master; file "short-circuit-queries.db"; }; Chris Buxton BlueCat

Re: Configuring CNAME for nosslsearch.google.com

2012-04-16 Thread Chris Buxton
response policy (RPZ) to achieve this. Or you can use just about any non-BIND resolver (e.g. unbound) to achieve this. Chris Buxton BlueCat Networks ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list

Re: VMware & Bind

2012-06-05 Thread Chris Buxton
On Jun 5, 2012, at 9:58 AM, Manson, John wrote: > Will bind run on VMware? Yes. Chris Buxton BlueCat Networks ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-us

Re: transfer the same zone from a split-view master

2012-06-05 Thread Chris Buxton
from the slave server. - 'rndc reload' on both servers. - Check the logs and the slave's zone files. Chris Buxton BlueCat Networks ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind

Re: Corrupted zone files on 9.9.1 slave, temp files with text contents...

2012-06-08 Thread Chris Buxton
Probably nothing. I believe the default format for slave zones is now compiled rather than text. Remove all the zone files on the slave and reload it. Chris Buxton BlueCat Networks On Jun 8, 2012, at 12:26 PM, David L. Beem wrote: > Just upgraded to 9.9.1 from 9.8.0, the end results seem to

Re: Journal File Question

2012-07-25 Thread Chris Buxton
journal file to the zone file and then > empties the journal. I don't believe that is entirely correct. The journal file needs to be retained to support ixfrs. My understanding is that it will be automatically trimmed to max-journal-s

Re: Multi-master DNS with Bind

2012-08-06 Thread Chris Buxton
On Aug 5, 2012, at 11:26 PM, Evan Hunt wrote: >> Looking to find information as to whether I can set up bind for >> multi-master DNS. I want to be able to update DNS records via any or more >> than one nameserver in the domain and have the records updated and >> propagated regardless if the "master

Re: Multi-master DNS with Bind

2012-08-06 Thread Chris Buxton
On Aug 6, 2012, at 7:37 PM, john.debe...@teradyne.com wrote: > Don't know. I haven't used it. Do you have experience with it? > No, I don't have experience with DLZ. However, I believe multi-master DNS should be possible with DLZ and active-active database replication.

Re: cname and soa record in the same zone file -- problem?

2012-09-19 Thread Chris Buxton
ectly, but I can't see how the bad effects would go any further than that. Perhaps someone else can explain how this misbehaves in this particular situation. Chris Buxton BlueCat Networks On Sep 18, 2012, at 8:08 AM, M. Meadows wrote: > > Why / how does this work? > >

Re: question about how a particular dig works ...

2012-09-19 Thread Chris Buxton
ry. But at least it's able to answer queries. Chris Buxton BlueCat Networks On Sep 18, 2012, at 9:59 AM, M. Meadows wrote: > > Thanks Kevin. I understand how the chained alias works. Sorry, I didn't > explain my question very well. > > I can see that the 8.8.8.8 goog

Re: does a stub zone require an IXFR?

2012-09-20 Thread Chris Buxton
names. Chris Buxton BlueCat Networks signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail ___ 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: Moving from "type forward" to "type static-stub"

2012-09-20 Thread Chris Buxton
guration, are there any downsides to changing from forward > zones to static-stub? Type static-stub should work great here. Type stub, which has been around since before I started managing DNS servers (a very long time now), would probably also have worked. Chris Buxton BlueCat Networks

Re: statistics-file and file rotation

2012-09-20 Thread Chris Buxton
On Sep 20, 2012, at 5:38 PM, Alex wrote: > I have a bind-9.7.4 server running on fc15. I use the 'size' parameter > with the query log file to automatically rotate them. How can I do > this with the statistics-file file? It doesn't seem to be documented? AFAIK, you can&

Re: Unintended Consequences; I shut down the wrong bind.

2012-10-03 Thread Chris Buxton
r this reason, the default server in rndc.conf should always be some form of localhost. Chris Buxton BlueCat Networks ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind

Re: query (cache) 'domain.com/AAAA/IN' denied

2012-10-10 Thread Chris Buxton
ne is not loading for some reason. The reason it works locally and not remotely is, the local query is in the default allow-recursion ACL, but the remote host is not. The recursion settings are a red herring. Solve the missing 'aa' flag. Chris Buxton BlueCat Networks _

Re: about the wild record

2012-10-15 Thread Chris Buxton
the following names to cover all of the names other than s1.test: test.cloudns.tk. *.test.cloudns.tk. *.s1.test.cloudns.tk. Chris Buxton BlueCat Networks ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this l

Re: Disable log message

2012-10-19 Thread Chris Buxton
g able to >>>> rebuild a "drop-in" binary for BIND when you didn't have access to the >>>> build directory (where the config.log contains the information) was a >>>> good thing. >>> >>> Yah, a very good thingŠ This has been really real

Re: BIND does not answer

2012-10-24 Thread Chris Buxton
eB, I don't see anything. > > What could be wrong, and how do I solve it? What tools are available to help > out? If I try to ask for recursive request (let's say www.google.com) from > anywhere, pointing at SiteA, I get a proper answer. What happens if you use 'dig +nore

Re: ISC Bind in Active Directory

2012-10-24 Thread Chris Buxton
do both -- use the client-supplied value if one is supplied, or else use the default. Bear in mind, I'm not saying client updates are necessarily bad, only that you could have done it the other way. Chris Buxton BlueCat Networks ___ Please visit https://

Re: Delegations

2012-11-01 Thread Chris Buxton
to Microsoft's DNS snap-in for MMC, whereby users then develop mistakes in their thinking about how DNS works and therefore are unable to properly troubleshoot and fix real problems when they occur. I would prefer to promote a correct understanding of the actual rules of DNS. Chris Bux

Re: Delegations

2012-11-01 Thread Chris Buxton
think this way when designing such a product. We have mostly managed to avoid this type of stupidity, but I still get tripped up by it occasionally. When I find it, it gets logged as a bug report, of course, because we have plenty of customers who rely on &qu

Re: Logging no such name

2012-11-20 Thread Chris Buxton
you are best off using a packet sniffer of some kind. There are even commercial offerings available from multiple vendors that will capture, collect, and analyze this data for you. Chris Buxton BlueCat Networks ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/

Re:

2012-11-30 Thread Chris Buxton
e pretty useless. If there isn't a matching A record in the videolinedvd.com zone as served by those two servers, it just won't work. Chris Buxton BlueCat Networks signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail ___ P

Re:

2012-11-30 Thread Chris Buxton
>> actually, they have glue A record in .com zone: >>> >>> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: >>> videolinedvd.com. 172800 IN NS ns1.videolinedvd.com. >>> videolinedvd.com. 172800 IN NS ns2.videolinedvd.com. >>> >>> ;; ADDITION

Re: Expiration TTLs

2012-12-02 Thread Chris Buxton
er is not a TTL timer. The two are different. Zone expiration should usually be at least a week. I've set mine to 6 weeks. This timer has nothing to do with the refresh interval, which is also defined in the SOA record. Chris Buxton BlueCat Networks

Re: Expiration TTLs

2012-12-03 Thread Chris Buxton
timers. Note that there is no scavenging function in BIND (nothing similar to MS DNS' aging and scavenging feature set), and no way to really implement it purely in DNS. Any attempt to use the expire timer to achieve this is evidence of a profound misunderstanding of the use of these

Re: Can't find named_dump.db

2012-12-03 Thread Chris Buxton
ot; being "/etc/bind/" the working > directory of the server. Look in /var/cache/bind. That's the working directory for the bind9 package default configuration. (To see this, use 'grep directory /etc/bind/named.conf.options'.) Chris Buxton BlueCat Networks

Re: Requesting tips on setting TTLs so that expired RRSIG data doesn't stay in the zone

2012-12-14 Thread Chris Buxton
olver, on encountering a stale RRSIG, would typically query one of the zone's authoritative servers directly (in the absence of forwarding configuration) to get a current RRSIG record. Therefore, the only problem these expired RRSIGs might cause is a little bit of

Re: With the announcement that: “Advisory — D-root is changing its IPv4 address on the 3rd of January.”

2012-12-14 Thread Chris Buxton
7.3-P3 on the Auths, and 9.8.1-P1 on the resolvers. > > We currently do not use a root hints file – If we put a hints file in > named.conf, then will named will use it, rather than the compiled in hints? Yes. Chris Buxton BlueCat Networks_

Re: Duplicate records?

2012-12-21 Thread Chris Buxton
ias. If the target of that alias changes (gets a new address, gets a new MX record, or whatever), the alias need not change to gain the same benefit. Deciding when to use a CNAME record in place of one or more other records is a matter of taste, management tools, and use cases. Chris Buxton BlueCat

Re: Transfers-out

2013-01-08 Thread Chris Buxton
On Jan 8, 2013, at 1:24 PM, Manson, John wrote: > Can this option be used in a ‘slave’ config to prevent out-bound transfers? > Transfers-out 0; > The 9.9.2 ARM is ambiguous. Wouldn't it be simpler to just write this instead, in your options statement? allow-transfer { none; };

Re: MNAME not a listed NS record

2013-01-18 Thread Chris Buxton
he client will try three times, assuming these three cases are all different. (I'm not counting potential retries to the same target to attempt use of GSS-TSIG.) I believe nsupdate behaves the same as dhcpd, but it's been a while since I last tested this. Chris Buxton BlueCa

Re: private trust anchor

2013-02-11 Thread Chris Buxton
nd validate the responses. Type forward? Really? I didn't expect that to come from someone at ISC. Use 'type stub' instead, with a masters statement rather than a forwarders statement. Chris Buxton ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/m

Re: Slaving from DNS masters behind LVS

2013-02-13 Thread Chris Buxton
. But in that case, you (ideally) shouldn't have any zones configured on the name servers other than (possibly) RPZs, stub zones, and (if you really must) conditional forwarding zones. Chris Buxton BlueCat Networks ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/m

Re: SOA issue

2013-02-13 Thread Chris Buxton
nges. - Are you sure you're editing the right file? Chris Buxton BlueCat Networks > rndc reload sturdymemorial.org > zone reload up-to-date > > > dig @localhost sturdymemorial.org soa > > ; (1 server found) > ;; global options: +cmd > ;; Got answer: > ;; -&

Re: Building a fresh named.root

2013-02-15 Thread Chris Buxton
s available. - Start named with the -4 argument to prevent it from trying to contact IPv6 addresses. Chris Buxton BlueCat Networks___ 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: Export / Import all zone data

2013-02-15 Thread Chris Buxton
igrating customers from their old platform to our appliances: #!/bin/bash mv $2{,.orig} named-compilezone -i none -k ignore -o $2 $1 $2.orig Chris Buxton BlueCat Networks ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe

Re: Building a fresh named.root

2013-02-15 Thread Chris Buxton
inations network list and it is still using the external > view. The hostname 'localhost' can mean different things to different computers. It probably means ::1 (IPv6 localhost) in this case. Try explicitly specifying the IP address rather than using the hostname. Chris Buxton

Re: Stop of logging of No Valid Signature Found

2013-02-26 Thread Chris Buxton
precise and complete in his explanation. Chris Buxton BlueCat Networks ___ 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: 3rd party CNAMEs and open recursion

2013-03-05 Thread Chris Buxton
east until you start rolling out DNSSEC (at which point you will probably need to use either views or separate servers). Chris Buxton BlueCat Networks ___ 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: Blocking private addresses with a optionq

2013-03-14 Thread Chris Buxton
er ... { bogus yes; }; clause which stops named from > sending queries to a particular address range. No, I'm pretty sure the OP wants to strip records from responses if the records are A records referring to private address space (RFC 1918). I've no idea how you would do this. Chri

Re: Blocking private addresses with a optionq

2013-03-14 Thread Chris Buxton
On Mar 14, 2013, at 9:07 AM, Niall O'Reilly wrote: > > On 14 Mar 2013, at 15:57, Chris Buxton wrote: > >> No, I'm pretty sure the OP wants to strip records from responses if the >> records are A records referring to private address space (RFC 1918). >>

Re: Recursion issue

2013-03-28 Thread Chris Buxton
urrent environment is not working? In your public data, I see: www.speaker.gov.300 IN CNAME wc.house.gov.edgekey.net. wc.house.gov.edgekey.net. 17789 IN CNAME e4776.g.akamaiedge.net. e4776.g.akamaiedge.net. 20 IN A

Re: Recursion issue

2013-03-28 Thread Chris Buxton
em recursively anyway. I continue to fail to see the problem that you're trying to solve. Chris Buxton BlueCat Networks ___ 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: Recursion issue

2013-03-28 Thread Chris Buxton
Therefore, I would recommend turning it off using 'recursion no;' in your options or view statement. Chris Buxton BlueCat Networks ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users m

Re: Recursion Issue

2013-03-28 Thread Chris Buxton
12640 IN CNAME a1164.g.akamai.net. a1164.g.akamai.net. 19 IN A 165.254.47.115 a1164.g.akamai.net. 19 IN A 165.254.47.112 Everything is as it should be. Chris Buxton BlueCat Networks ___ Please visit http

Re: Forward First on Master Zone (bypass SOA)

2013-03-28 Thread Chris Buxton
l, and common. Note that this is not compatible with dynamic zones. If you need to support dynamic zones (and who doesn't, these days?), you're out of luck. Chris Buxton BlueCat Networks ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listin

Re: Dynamic Update Policy.....

2013-03-30 Thread Chris Buxton
to allow dhcpd to make the changes > (and they work correctly), however the forward zone does not. At a guess, you're not using GSS-TSIG for reverse record updates, correct? Is there a reason not to have DHCP update the host records as well as the reverse? Chris Buxton BlueCat Networks __

Re: Disable logging for a view

2013-03-30 Thread Chris Buxton
On Mar 29, 2013, at 1:46 AM, Francesco wrote: > Hello, > i need to log queries into bind.log for all views except only one view (i > call it the deafult view, where it logs all attacks, flood, ecc.). > > But i noticed i can not insert logging clause into a view. > > Is the

Re: Understanding rndc referral statistics

2013-03-30 Thread Chris Buxton
nario would be the same (at least as far as the answer section of the response is concerned) coming from BIND 9.9, 9.3, 9.1, 8.2, or 4.9. (I can't speak for 4.8.) Chris Buxton BlueCat Networks ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/b

RPZ and negative answers

2013-04-03 Thread Chris Buxton
n the Internet or can't be resolved due to an error." Chris Buxton BlueCat Networks ___ 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: RPZ and negative answers

2013-04-03 Thread Chris Buxton
On Apr 3, 2013, at 4:13 PM, Vernon Schryver wrote: >> From: Chris Buxton > >> If a name exists in the response policy, and also exists in the real >> Internet namespace, the value from the policy is returned. But if it >> doesn't exist out on the Internet, then th

Re: RPZ and negative answers

2013-04-04 Thread Chris Buxton
On Apr 4, 2013, at 1:42 AM, Phil Mayers wrote: > On 04/04/2013 12:50 AM, Chris Buxton wrote: > >> Thanks for the explanation. It seems to me this is a gap in coverage >> of RPZ -- the algorithm should be updated, in my opinion, to cover >> the case of a negative

Re: BIND 9.4.x and check-names

2013-04-17 Thread Chris Buxton
Apr-2013 00:45:37.447 general: warning: zone >> /IN: gc._msdcs./A: bad owner name (check-names) > > Hmm, aren't those supposed to be SRV records? No, they are the addresses of the global catalog servers. If they were SRV records, check-n

Re: Mirror Masters

2013-04-23 Thread Chris Buxton
raw format. Then in the event of a disaster, change all the zone statements from slave to master. That way, you won't be dependent on OS processes for transferring and synchronizing the data between the two masters. Your other choice is to use rsync to synchronize files between the tw

Re: Mirror Masters

2013-04-24 Thread Chris Buxton
On Apr 24, 2013, at 2:21 PM, Manson, John wrote: > Works great. Got the conf file down to about 12 lines (only transferring 1 > zone file for test). > Only problem is the file is in slave format. > Is the master going to have a problem sending the db.x.bak to slaves? > When a slave receives the t

Re: ISC Courses

2013-04-27 Thread Chris Buxton
ught DNS and BIND courses for Men & Mice, the live interaction was a key component of the value of the class. You just don't get that remotely. Chris Buxton ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe

Re: How does bind select what master to use?

2013-04-28 Thread Chris Buxton
to forwarders, then yes, RTT is used. If you're talking about recursion, then yes, RTT is used. Chris Buxton ___ 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: NS geo-distribution

2013-04-29 Thread Chris Buxton
would have a 1/3 chance of hitting a NS with a higher latency? RTT means almost always hitting the fastest server. Chris Buxton ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing lis

Re: Mailing list "reply-to" setting

2013-05-09 Thread Chris Buxton
lder to see if there are new messages in it. My mail client shows the number of unread messages next to each mail folder, except for those that have no unread messages. I do not have to click on each folder to cause this to happen. Regards, Chris Buxton _

Re: Negative zones; NXDOMAIN responses

2013-05-20 Thread Chris Buxton
On May 20, 2013, at 12:51 AM, Narcis Garcia wrote: > - Yes, I thought about not using DNS from the same internet provider, > but wanted to know if there is a way to patch only the .local response. > > - This is the configuration I use in one of the LANs: > > view "local-nets" { >match-c

Re: any requests

2013-06-03 Thread Chris Buxton
e A record, not the MX record. And that represents a failure of the SMTP protocol implementation. Chris Buxton On Jun 3, 2013, at 3:42 PM, Leonard Mills wrote: > If your some of your clients are SMTP relays, then ANY is the default lookup > for an MX and is perfectly normal. > >

Re: any requests

2013-06-05 Thread Chris Buxton
On Jun 5, 2013, at 11:59 AM, Doug Barton wrote: > On 06/05/2013 11:33 AM, Tony Finch wrote: >> I believe the ANY hack on mail servers was a Sendmailism 20ish years ago. > > s/Send/q/ That makes even more sense. DJB always thinks he knows best. ___ Plea

Stub zones vs minimal responses

2013-06-10 Thread Chris Buxton
that zone get a SERVFAIL response. Am I understanding the evidence correctly? Regards, Chris Buxton ___ 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

Re: Stub zones vs minimal responses

2013-06-12 Thread Chris Buxton
On Jun 12, 2013, at 5:23 AM, Tony Finch wrote: > Chris Buxton wrote: >> >> If an authoritative server is configured to send minimal responses, will >> a stub zone get all the necessary data from that server? What I'm seeing >> is, the recursive server sends an

Re: What happens when one out of three NSs are down?

2013-06-12 Thread Chris Buxton
match? > > Any comments and best practice solution info very welcome. You might consider using anycast to route around the problem. In practice, though, your best bet is to find out why that small group of customers are having problems. Are they querying the servers directly? Chris Buxton ___

Re: SPF record with include:

2013-06-21 Thread Chris Buxton
On Jun 20, 2013, at 7:30 PM, Julie Xu wrote: > Hi Steven, Jason, Ged and Bind expert > > Thanks for the reply. It is great help. > > However, I need ask more. > > For this include clause to be added in, I have also need to add DKIM records. SPF and DKIM are unrelated. There is no way to refe

Re: bind 2.1a3 on centos 6.4

2013-06-24 Thread Chris Buxton
On Jun 22, 2013, at 12:50 PM, "Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng." wrote: > Or don't use nslint? +1 Use 'named-checkconf -z' instead. Or run it without '-z', and then use 'named-checkzone' against each zone file, with suitable options to tweak the tests to meet your needs. Chris __

Re: bind 2.1a3 on centos 6.4

2013-06-24 Thread Chris Buxton
On Jun 24, 2013, at 10:09 AM, Brian Cuttler wrote: > On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 09:40:36AM -0700, Chris Buxton wrote: >> On Jun 22, 2013, at 12:50 PM, "Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng." >> wrote: >> >>> Or don't use nslint? >> >> +1 >> &

Re: Answers from cache or authority section?

2013-06-25 Thread Chris Buxton
nal name servers internally (but this can require firewall changes) - Make your internal name servers reachable from the Internet Regards, Chris Buxton BLUECAT ___ 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: BIND Service Hung

2013-07-03 Thread Chris Buxton
On Jul 2, 2013, at 7:33 PM, Arie Lendra Putra wrote: > PS: sometimes this happens when our upstream is down, many unanswered DNS > request sometimes trigger named not responding. Stop forwarding. Do your own recursion. Regards, Chris Buxton___ Please

Re: BIND Performance with Huge RPZ

2013-07-12 Thread Chris Buxton
f configuration settings can impact performance. Once such example is query logging to file (instead of to syslog), which can completely gut performance. Regards, Chris Buxton BLUECAT ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users t

Re: bind classless slave from microsoft dns classful SOA?

2013-07-12 Thread Chris Buxton
y its master server. Were I you, I would refuse to slave the /24 reverse zone. Regards, Chris Buxton BLUECAT ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.o

Re: New warning message...

2013-07-22 Thread Chris Buxton
On Jul 22, 2013, at 1:24 PM, Barry S. Finkel wrote: > On 7/22/2013 11:17 AM, bind-users-requ...@lists.isc.org wrote: This was discussed here already, and imho this is anti-spf bullshit like >>all those "spf breaks forwarding" FUD. The SPF RR is already here and is >>preferred over

Re: bind9 and logrotation

2013-07-29 Thread Chris Buxton
let BIND write and rotate log files, but then process them with logrotate afterward. Another option is to send all log messages through syslog, which allows for: - asynchronous (batched) file writing - all kinds of other, more advanced features that BIND doesn't support nativel

Re: BIND 9.8.1-P1: 'make test' fails

2013-08-20 Thread Chris Buxton
bout what has changed since Net::DNS was taken over by a new maintainer, meaning post-0.68. A small number of quite disruptive changes were made in 0.69. Regards, Chris Buxton ___ 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: the location of dig and named

2013-08-28 Thread Chris Buxton
On Aug 28, 2013, at 2:35 PM, Nidal Shater wrote: > when I typed dig or named ,,, what is the location of the executable program > dig and named is ? Your answer can be found with this command, available on many operating systems: which dig or: which named Regards, Chris

Re: Problem with "authoritative answer"

2013-09-13 Thread Chris Buxton
name servers behave this way, but they are supposed to. BIND 9 behaves correctly. Regards, Chris Buxton ___ 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: RRL probably not useful for DNS IP blacklists, was Re: New Versions of BIND are available (9.9.4, 9.8.6, and 9.6-ESV-R10)

2013-09-23 Thread Chris Buxton
On Sep 23, 2013, at 7:59 AM, Vernon Schryver wrote: > From: Eliezer Croitoru > >> I was looking for something like that but I am sure a dynamic DB is >> needed for the task right? > > Large DNSBLs are not very dynamic, because they have relatively few > changes per day. From another perspect

Re: 9.9.4 Bug Fixes - RT #34583

2013-09-23 Thread Chris Buxton
On Sep 21, 2013, at 8:35 AM, Steve Arntzen wrote: > Good morning/day/evening. > > What exactly does "beneath" mean in the following line from the 9.9.4 > bug fixes? > > "Fix forwarding for forward only "zones" beneath automatic empty zones. > [RT #34583]" "Beneath" in this case refers to the

Re: RPZ help on BIND

2013-12-28 Thread Chris Buxton
extra configuration. I don’t know the purpose of this RPZ, so I can’t give you the exact syntax. Perhaps someone from Spamhaus can help you with that. I don’t have enough context to answer your question about a whitelist. Perhaps someone else can help you with that. Regards, Chris Buxton On D

Re: Error logs in bind resolving

2013-12-30 Thread Chris Buxton
hat when asked for an record, the load balancer gives an otherwise-proper-looking negative response that claims to be from the wrong zone. Regards, Chris Buxton ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe

Re: Error logs in bind resolving

2013-12-31 Thread Chris Buxton
On Dec 30, 2013, at 9:46 PM, Gaurav Kansal wrote: > I am getting the error message for lot of domains. > > Log of error entries are attached. All the ones I checked were caused by broken implementations. > Is it possible to configure bind so that error message should not be > generated in log

Re: Error logs in bind resolving

2014-01-02 Thread Chris Buxton
t; >> All the ones I checked were caused by broken implementations. > > Is this a broken implementation of IPv6 or something else. As this DNS Server > is running IPv6 only. Broken implementations of name servers. They’re probably mostly load balancers. Regards, Chris Buxton

Re: When Updates Fail

2014-01-07 Thread Chris Buxton
72. Or there’s a release candidate for 0.74 that apparently fixes it, but I haven’t tested it. Regards, Chris Buxton ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-u

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

2014-01-20 Thread Chris Buxton
or something like that) before starting named. It would then stay open. 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. Regards, Chris Buxton __

Re: additional section policy

2014-01-20 Thread Chris Buxton
ears you’re asking about specifically this case. This behavior is described in RFC 1034 or 1035, I believe. As for responding to this data by following up on a referral and asking a listed name server, the BIND name server uses the RTT (round trip time) algorithm. Basically, it tries to guess

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