Re: Bind 9.9.0b2 inline signing...

2011-11-24 Thread Chris Thompson
y's ad hoc command into something publishable, it would be better to use dig +nocmd +nostats +onesoa AXFR zone | awk ... (although for +onesoa you need the dig from BIND 9.8 or later). -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ Please visit https://lists.

Exercising RFC 5011 rollovers

2011-11-25 Thread Chris Thompson
ry to perform an RFC 5011 rollover on it, using dnssec-revoke and/or the -R option of dnssec-settime, meanwhile tracking it on another system via a managed-keys entry, but then if it all went pear-shaped it might not be clear whether I had performed the rollover correctly or not. -- Chris Thompson E

Choosing max-journal-size

2011-11-29 Thread Chris Thompson
subject to negotiation!) to provide automatic scaling according to the size of the zone. Do other people have this problem? Any other ideas? -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubsc

Re: 9.9.0b2 Key Expiration Question

2011-12-01 Thread Chris Thompson
gorithm represented in the DNSKEY RRset: at least one KSK | and one ZSK per algorithm. If there is any algorithm for which this | requirement is not met, this option will be ignored for that algorithm. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ Please visit

Re: How to identify a "raw" zone file

2011-12-02 Thread Chris Thompson
the new raw format (e.g. as a result of dynamic updates), then one would have a problem backing off to earlier BIND versions? -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscr

Re: Update to BIND query.c CVE-2011-4313

2011-12-05 Thread Chris Thompson
"gov", just because the early reports were from the US and no-one around here seems to have had their recursive nameservers crash. [We upgraded to BIND 9.8.1-P1 anyway, of course.] -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ Please visit

Re: .TLD minimum number of nameservers rule

2011-12-12 Thread Chris Thompson
"How many secondaries?": | The DNS specification and domain name registration rules require at | least two servers for every zone. before going on to recommend more than two in most cases. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ Please visit h

Re: Fwd: Re: .TLD minimum number of nameservers rule

2011-12-15 Thread Chris Thompson
han my one from RFC 1035. How did I miss it? Well, it turns out that the word "two" above occurs at the beginning of a line in rfc1034.txt, and I was searching for the string " two" ... :-( [Too many false drops if you search for just the three-character string, because of

Re: Exercising RFC 5011 rollovers

2012-01-09 Thread Chris Thompson
27;t really meant to perform this experiment at this time... it happened as a result of specifying a set of key publication and activation times in January 2011 when January 2012 was intended :-) -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ Please visit h

Re: RFC 6303 vs. BIND: NS ... has no address records (A or AAAA)

2012-01-11 Thread Chris Thompson
invalid" as the SOA.rname, but BIND still uses "." for empty zones (apparently even in 9.9.0rc1). I imagine we will change that if/when BINS does. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listin

9.9 query log change

2012-01-15 Thread Chris Thompson
new, but seems always to be the same as the later query name. What is it for? If it meant to be the name of the client it has got it horribly wrong! The ARM for 9.9.0rc1 still describes the old format. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ Please

Re: 9.9 query log change

2012-01-16 Thread Chris Thompson
pears, not just the query log ones. But it does look mighty strange in that case. And maybe people will want the class and type (and even flags) of the query added in the general case, which would sort of reduce the query log specific info to just "it happened". -- Chris Thompson E

Re: Settings for File Descriptors

2009-03-06 Thread Chris Thompson
h servers? If you did go out of your way to make it other than "unlimited", then yes to both. But don't. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: XFR quota setting?

2009-03-12 Thread Chris Thompson
If it's occurring a lot, you could have stuck or nearly-stuck transfers going on. "rndc status" will tell you how many. You may need to adjust "max-transfer-time-out"/"max-transfer-idle-out" rather than "transfers-out". -- Chris Thompson Email: c..

RE: PTR zone / VLSM issue

2009-03-16 Thread Chris Thompson
me components. The real point for the OP is: whatever the naming convention used, you have to agree it with the delegating authority (unless you are in the happy position of *being* the delegating authority as well). All too likely, they will not offer you any choice in the mat

Re: Bind Debug file question

2009-03-19 Thread Chris Thompson
sages ever get routed to the channel, the file will never get created. Actually, "default_debug" is slightly different from a channel that you could set up yourself with "severity dynamic". The latter would revert to "severity info" when you used "

Re: ACL ?

2009-03-23 Thread Chris Thompson
e of points: 1. You can (and should) test a new named.conf for syntax errors in advance by using the named-checkconf program. 2. BIND 9.2.2 is very very old. The whole of the 9.2.x series is EOL (and that was after 9.2.9). It's long past time that you upgraded. -- Chris Thomp

ZSK rollover with BIND 9.6 and an automatically re-signed zone

2009-03-25 Thread Chris Thompson
t any RRSIGs using it any longer, and removes its TYPE65535 record. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: multi-named instance exist?

2009-03-26 Thread Chris Thompson
en't, consider switching to a Unix flavour that does... But this is getting off-topic for bind-users. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: PTR for localhost

2009-03-26 Thread Chris Thompson
fied for zone "localhost" @ 86400 SOA localhost. . 0 28800 7200 604800 86400 @ 0 NS localhost. @ 86400 A127.0.0.1 @ 86400 ::1 (db.localhost-rev) ; Like empty zone, but modified for reverse lookup of "localhost" (IPv4 or IPv6) @ 86400 SOA localho

Re: name server zone list

2009-04-03 Thread Chris Thompson
fault, or I can imagine people getting quite upset about the security implications. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: name server zone list

2009-04-03 Thread Chris Thompson
On Apr 3 2009, R Dicaire wrote: On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Chris Thompson wrote: This one is hardy perennial, of course, but I've been working on an "index zone" in a certain local DNS context recently, and thinking how convenient it would have been if BIND had prov

Re: name server zone list

2009-04-04 Thread Chris Thompson
On Apr 3 2009, Niall O'Reilly wrote: Or Google for "vixie metazone" (without the quotes). ... and it tells me I probably wanted to know about nosedrops ("Vista-methasone") ... :-) [yes, OK, and some real links as well] -- Chris Thomp

BIND and Solaris rand()

2009-04-06 Thread Chris Thompson
s done the same thing already. Also, a suggestion to ISC that they use lrand48() on Solaris, in the same way as they use arc4random() if that is available. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc

Re: BIND and Solaris rand()

2009-04-07 Thread Chris Thompson
On Apr 7 2009, Stacey Jonathan Marshall wrote: On 04/06/09 16:06, Chris Thompson wrote: It turns out that rand(3c) in even recent Solaris versions returns values in the range 0..32767 only. I suppose this is part of Sun's rather extreme paranoia about backwards compatibility with pro

Position of SOA in master file (was: Re: about resolving on a child zone)

2009-04-14 Thread Chris Thompson
a) have no $TTL directive (b) have no explicit TTL on the first RR in the master file. Or at least, with the various BIND backwards-compatibility features, that's the case. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users

RE: negative caching time and TTLs

2009-04-14 Thread Chris Thompson
or the negative caching? RFC 2308 is not clear. How could "$TTL override the SOA's min TTL"? The $TTL value doesn't exist in the compiled zone, and of course $TTL could occur many times in the input, with different arguments. Maybe you mean "the TTL value of the SOA r

Re: Limit allow-transfer to key + IP

2009-04-14 Thread Chris Thompson
there any way to limit the zone-transfer to require both key and known IP using allow-transfer? Yup. Use allow-transfer { !{!11.22.33.44}; key secret-key; }; Now sit down with a cold, cold drink and puzzle out why that works! -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk

Re: about $GENERATE Directive

2009-04-21 Thread Chris Thompson
ewhat inconsistent: since when has the rdata part of an A or record been a "domain name"? The real restriction seems to be that the rdata consists of a single lexical item. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing

Re: Failover

2009-04-27 Thread Chris Thompson
them :-( -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Signing algorithms for rndc

2009-04-27 Thread Chris Thompson
It seems that even in the most recent versions of BIND, rndc supports only the hmac-md5 algorithm. Given that MD5 is being deprecated all over the place (I am thinking of draft-ietf-dnsext-tsig-md5-deprecated-02 in particular), is this wise? -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk

Re: nsupdate delete question

2009-04-30 Thread Chris Thompson
27;t, is a perfectly reasonable requirement. What you need to do is to add a prereq requiring the RRset to exist ("prereq yxrrset mandy11.example.com A") or for it to have particular contents ("prereq yxrrset mandy11.example.com A 192.168.255.42") before it is deleted. -- Chris

Are the TYPE65535 RRs necessary?

2009-05-18 Thread Chris Thompson
urvives named being restarted.) So what are the TYPE65535 records actually for? -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: Are the TYPE65535 RRs necessary?

2009-05-19 Thread Chris Thompson
deleted key, but are not required or used when resigning. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Why does key-directory have to be absolute?

2009-05-26 Thread Chris Thompson
BIND imposes the same restriction on the key-directory value as it does on directory, i.e. that it has to be an absolute path or ".". I don't see why this should be necessary: why can't it be a path relative to the directory setting? (Just as "file" values in zone

Re: BIND not talking to syslog daemon

2009-06-10 Thread Chris Thompson
n the box right now, so I am looking to see if anyone has suggestions about what might be causing this, and/or ways to resolve it without restarting the named daemon. You never need to restart named. (Well, hardly ever.) You can change the logging configuration in named.conf, check your syntax w

Tracking down validation failures

2009-06-11 Thread Chris Thompson
not even obvious what the original query was in these cases. (If I could find that out I could try the same query on a quieter nameserver with more logging turned on.) There are no messages generated at this level when I force a validation failure to occur ("dig soa advocaat.pro" remain

Re: Tracking down validation failures

2009-06-12 Thread Chris Thompson
On Jun 11 2009, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: On Thu, 11 Jun 2009, Chris Thompson wrote: We have recently turned on DNSSEC validation (using dlv.isc.org) in our main university-wide recursive nameservers, which are running BIND 9.6.1rc1. No-one is actually complaining, but the counts I am seeing for

Re: Tracking down validation failures

2009-06-13 Thread Chris Thompson
on other validating nameservers. Just to expand on that a bit: the DS record in the parent zone correctly describes the KSK in the child zone, and the RRSIGs in 8.84.in-addr.arpa appear to be correct ... except that they all expired over 15 months ago! -- Chris Thompson E

Re: Validating a DNSSEC installation

2009-06-16 Thread Chris Thompson
ed transfers from trusted master servers. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: bind 9.6.1 stats dump

2009-06-18 Thread Chris Thompson
cult to find in the ARM. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

RE: Dynamic DNS and Slave Servers

2009-06-19 Thread Chris Thompson
ere aren't any. (I don't actually much like syntax like this, when leaving out an argument has such a wide-ranging effect that might not have been intended. "rndc freezeall", say, would have been a better idea.) -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk __

Re: DLV validation fails after ksk rollover

2009-06-23 Thread Chris Thompson
etc would be greatly appreciated. Useful to me diagnosing your problem were dig dlv kritek.net.dlv.isc.org. dig +dnssec +cd dnskey kritek.net. and observing that the key tags didn't agree. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind

RE: can't query for RRSIG that references NSEC3

2009-06-24 Thread Chris Thompson
"Responding to Queries for NSEC3 Owner Names" mandates the response you are seeing. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: Trouble With One Domain

2009-06-26 Thread Chris Thompson
the extra official slaves. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: domain name length

2009-06-30 Thread Chris Thompson
can find a one-character TLD. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: host -t txt _domainkey.fakessh.eu. bitsy.mit.edu.

2009-07-01 Thread Chris Thompson
. - propagation of what? Who knows? But AFAIK MIT don't actually *intend* bitsy.mit.edu to be an open recursive nameserver, although it is one. (Somewhat worrying from our POV, as it's one of the official slaves for cam.ac.uk.) -- Chris Thompson Email: c...

Adding first DNSKEY record with update (9.6.0 vs 9.6.1)

2009-07-14 Thread Chris Thompson
ended - if so I can't work out which entry in the CHANGES file it corresponds to. Both 9.6.0 and 9.6.1 give REFUSED if one attempts to delete the last KSK (although they let you remove all the ZSKs). -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-use

Re: DNSKEY Validation

2009-07-15 Thread Chris Thompson
ke them to cover DNSKEY ones as well.) There is a limit to how much "validation" you can do on an RSASHA1 key record (the most popular type), absent the signatures that use it. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing li

Re: Adding first DNSKEY record with update (9.6.0 vs 9.6.1)

2009-07-15 Thread Chris Thompson
On Jul 15 2009, Mark Andrews wrote: In message , Chris Thompson writes: In BIND 9.6.0 one could take an unsigned zone and add an initial KSK and ZSK to it using nsupdate (and if the right files were in the key directory, it would sign everything correctly). In BIND 9.6.1 this no longer works

BIND 9.6 freezing on update to signed zone (rare!)

2009-07-15 Thread Chris Thompson
event. Unfortunately I failed to get a core dump of named in the non-responding state (I need to review my procedures for that!) so I haven't got enough to report to bind-bugs. This is an appeal to ask if anyone has seen anything similar. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...

Re: about cache nonexist record

2009-07-20 Thread Chris Thompson
On Jul 20 2009, Tech W. wrote: I have Bind-9.6.1 running on our university environment, have been using dynamic update. My question is, when other DNS query my named for a record, for example test.example.com, but this record doesn't exist. How long time will the remote DNS cache this nonexist

Re: SRV Record Priority set by IP Address

2009-07-20 Thread Chris Thompson
ng to treat the RR order in the answer as significant. They will use the priority and weight fields as described in RFC 2782 (or so one hopes). Those should be adjusted appropriately in the two views. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-

Re: BIND 9.6 freezing on update to signed zone (rare!)

2009-07-20 Thread Chris Thompson
rstanding what causes these. The zone had several externally applied updates (apparently successfully) during this period, before the one that hung. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: Dig shows wrong ip

2009-07-28 Thread Chris Thompson
e they can roll out DNSSEC, won't they? -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: Creating a CNAME to another domain.

2009-07-30 Thread Chris Thompson
E does not redirect the owner name itself, only its descendants. (That's why it is allowed at the zone apex in the first place, of course.) -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/m

Re: Dig shows wrong ip

2009-07-30 Thread Chris Thompson
On Jul 30 2009, Danny Mayer wrote: Chris Thompson wrote: On Jul 28 2009, sth...@nethelp.no wrote: % dig +short a dns3.potomacnetworks.com @a.gtld-servers.net 216.250.243.230 As long as that host record exists, with an IP different from what your authoritative servers reply with, you are

Re: idsable ipv6 in config?

2009-07-30 Thread Chris Thompson
ply* to v6 queries without *generating* them. (For the record, I have the same issue than Gilles.) Would server ::/0 { bogus yes; }; work? -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lis

The Year of the Sevenfold Increase

2009-07-30 Thread Chris Thompson
0 July 2010, or will the numbers start dropping as higher-level domains get their signed delegation procedures going? Anyway, congratulations and thanks to ISC for providing this service. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing

Re: idsable ipv6 in config?

2009-08-02 Thread Chris Thompson
On Jul 30 2009, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On Jul 30 2009, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: -4 shuts down any v6 service. We would like BIND to be able to *reply* to v6 queries without *generating* them. (For the record, I have the same issue than Gilles.) On 30.07.09 15:46, Chris Thompson

Re: change NXDOMAIN to a A type response

2009-08-03 Thread Chris Thompson
Draft draft-livingood-dns-redirect-00 over on the dnsop mailing list - see http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/dnsop -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: Dig shows wrong ip

2009-08-03 Thread Chris Thompson
On Aug 3 2009, Danny Mayer wrote: Chris Thompson wrote: [...] You are misinterpreting what I said. Of course erroneous glue needs to be corrected. But there is no need for the servers to return IP addresses provided for glue as an *answer* to a query, as the *.gtld-servers.net ones do, rather

Re: Dig shows wrong ip

2009-08-04 Thread Chris Thompson
On Aug 3 2009, JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 wrote: At 03 Aug 2009 11:52:10 +0100, Chris Thompson wrote: will believe this answer (and cache it). This would only be proper behaviour if the *.gtld-servers.net were slaving (possibly stealth slaving) potomacnetworks.com - which of course they aren&#

Re: Strange tiny time limit RRSIG

2009-08-14 Thread Chris Thompson
e earliest expiry time is (comfortably) later than the next time you expect to resign the zone in the same way. (I am assuming that you are using offline signing only.) -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.

Re: Strange tiny time limit RRSIG

2009-08-14 Thread Chris Thompson
On Aug 14 2009, Paul Wouters wrote: On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, Chris Thompson wrote: I'm running into a strange issue where when signing a zone with re-using signatures, that sometimes 1 RRSIG record ends up with a validity time of almost nothing. This happens for instance when signing (a

Re: Strange tiny time limit RRSIG

2009-08-14 Thread Chris Thompson
itter only makes the interval less, by up to the -j amount, never more. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: BIND 9.x and hint file

2009-08-31 Thread Chris Thompson
you need an external hints file if you are using a fake root for a network isolated from the Internet. Otherwise, it's largely a matter of taste. Personally, I prefer to keep one in my configurations for the small amount of extra flexibility that provides. -- Chris Thomp

Re: 9.6.1-P1 log message

2009-08-31 Thread Chris Thompson
rying another dlv.isc.org nameserver with better luck. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: dig +trace failure

2009-09-03 Thread Chris Thompson
01:500:31::63#53(X.ARIN.NET) in 166 ms ;; Truncated, retrying in TCP mode. ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached No joy if you actually wanted a result, of course. Both nameservers for the zone are u/s. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk

Restarting named [was: Re: root and in-addr.arpa zone transfers]

2009-09-11 Thread Chris Thompson
ter once a day, in the early hours but that's just habit and I've always thought we were a bit hyperactive. I think so too. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mai

Re: slave zone header in bind8

2009-09-21 Thread Chris Thompson
times? Using the xfer-in (level info) log entries is probably your best substitute. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: recursion on auth-only server

2009-09-21 Thread Chris Thompson
to specify +norec when "appropriate"?). Query logging will help you track them down if you are really concerned. At 0.4%, I wouldn't worry. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org http

"*.dlv.isc.org DS: must be secure" warnings [was: Re: 9.6.1-P1 log message]

2009-09-26 Thread Chris Thompson
believe that the frequency is related to transient network errors or delays, but I have no idea whether they are likely to be local or at at the dlv.isc.org server end. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lis

Somewhat OT: SOA serial wraparound and Windows DNS Server slaves

2009-09-29 Thread Chris Thompson
on them to sort this out. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: DNSSEC

2009-09-29 Thread Chris Thompson
nes ("reverse lookup results should only be treated as a hint, anyway"). What I would like to see is for more reverse zones to go away, by use of the scheme I describe in http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/cet1/prune-reverse-zones (There probably ought to be a date in that - it was written la

Re: DNSSEC

2009-09-30 Thread Chris Thompson
On Sep 30 2009, Mark Andrews wrote: In message , Chris Thompson writes: DNSSEC certainly adds to the aggravation of having lots of piddling little reverse zones. Some people may just decide not to bother signing reverse zones ("reverse lookup results should only be treated as a hint, a

Re: Feature or bug on $ORIGIN directive

2009-10-14 Thread Chris Thompson
hat was an unfortunate choice of syntax back in the Mesozoic. But it's absolutely principle-of-least-surprise that the same rules should apply to the $ORIGIN argument as well. And of course, there are people relying on that behavior as well, especially within $INCLUDE'd

Re: Problems with include in acl file

2009-10-18 Thread Chris Thompson
(in general) start with keywords. For the whole truth, you need to look at lib/isccfg/namedconf.c and lib/isccfg/parser.c and work out in exactly which cases cfg_parse_mapbody in the latter gets called :-( -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: ISC BIND 9.7.0b1 is now available

2009-10-28 Thread Chris Thompson
ng that it will be out before 9.7.0b2 is... -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: ISC BIND 9.7.0b1 is now available

2009-10-28 Thread Chris Thompson
g to current reports). -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: Feature request - disable internal recursion cache

2009-10-30 Thread Chris Thompson
clients to change their DNS resolver IP address. Put the authoritative-only nameservers at the new IP addresses, keeping the recursive ones at the original IP addresses. Been there, done that! -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users

Glitches when new entries appear in dlv.isc.org?

2009-11-03 Thread Chris Thompson
ons.) -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: PTR zone /28 not working

2009-11-05 Thread Chris Thompson
n-addr.arpa than ns1.etecsa.net and ns2.etecsa.net do. You have a lot of errors to correct. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: BIND 9.4-ESVb1 is now available.

2009-11-19 Thread Chris Thompson
o be those that got into 9.5.2.) -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: Insecure response BIND 9.7.0b2

2009-11-19 Thread Chris Thompson
complaining about? -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: Disable Refused answer

2009-12-04 Thread Chris Thompson
o to do recursive lookups. [It's never been entirely clear to me why these functions have to be combined, especially given that "server [ipaddr/len] {bogus yes;};" can be used to block outgoing queries.] -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk

Re: BIND9 slave

2009-12-08 Thread Chris Thompson
licates (due to case-insensitivity). Ever since I first saw you recommend this, I have wondered "why did I ever think TXT records were the right way to do it?" ... -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list

Re: Handling of RSASHA256 and RSASHA512 in BIND 9.6.0 and BIND 9.6.0-P1

2009-12-15 Thread Chris Thompson
be final in a little over a month, which is fortunate timing. (But it's not too obvious to me that adding support for a new signing algorithm should necessarily be considered a "major functional change".) -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___

Re: Delegating in reverse lookup zones

2009-12-15 Thread Chris Thompson
ed to be, is expired and gone to meet its maker, etc. etc. It is an ex-BIND. and in any event I'd like to know what the issue is. Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong? Did the above help? -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: dnssec updated zone data is not live ??

2009-12-18 Thread Chris Thompson
ame" convention. Altogether, using AXFR is the thing to get used to using in this context. (If you disable zone transfers generally, at least allow them on the loopback interface.) Then start using "masterfile-format raw", and forget about thinking of zone files are something human

Re: recursion confusion

2010-01-08 Thread Chris Thompson
t do that. (Probably there are other niggling things I have forgotten as well.) -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: Interoperability issues using TSIG with HMAC-SHA224

2010-01-11 Thread Chris Thompson
try a shorter key and see if that works. Just to clarify, does this also apply to HMAC-MD5 (block size = 64 bytes, digest size = 16 bytes) ? -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/ma

Re: file descriptor limits eating my lunch

2010-01-12 Thread Chris Thompson
und and here is what I know: running 'pfiles' on named on the two complaining show 1023 files the happy ones are showing less than that. This tells me there's a limit of 1024 somewhere. [... rest snipped ...] -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk

Re: Handling of RSASHA256 and RSASHA512 in BIND 9.6.0 and BIND 9.6.0-P1

2010-01-14 Thread Chris Thompson
make your voice heard. We hear you. Expect a decision in the next few days. So, has the decision been made? [I am tentatively planning on going to 9.7 in production round about Easter, in good time for the RSASHA256-signed root zone in July, but it would be nice to have a fall-back option.]

Re: ISC BIND 9.6.1-P3 is now available

2010-01-19 Thread Chris Thompson
invalid. But the CHANGES files list *three* security fixes (2827, 2828 & 2831), none of which seem to be superficially the "same" vulnerability. So is the "two" above a mistake? -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users

BIND 9.6.1-P3 using more resources?

2010-01-22 Thread Chris Thompson
in the query pattern that might explain this, without success so far. If anyone else has seen a similar effect as a result of upgrading, please let me know. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org

Re: BIND 9.6.1-P3 using more resources?

2010-01-24 Thread Chris Thompson
that turns out not to be the case ... (Using "-m record" was motivated by a unfreed-memory-at-shutdown abort that we observed with 9.6.1-P1 -- and not since -- and reported on bind9-bugs as RT #20675.) -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk __

Re: DNSSEC DSSET & KEYSET

2010-01-28 Thread Chris Thompson
c.org (where the DLV records always come in pairs with digesttype=1 and digesttype=2). [Self registration at dlv.isc.org asks for DNSKEY records in the first place, of course.] -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-

Re: DNSSEC DSSET & KEYSET

2010-01-28 Thread Chris Thompson
parent's? Shouldn't there be an additional @parent.name.server argument? Not necessary if the nameserver you are sending the dig request to is DNSSEC-aware, and therefore following RFC 4035 section 3.1.4.1. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___

Re: Queries for NSEC3 hashed owner names

2010-02-04 Thread Chris Thompson
lead to all sorts of confusion if they are validating via dlv.isc.org (say). But the solitary 9.5.1-P3 is a counter-example (2579 was fixed in 9.5.1-P2). Maybe its version number is faked ... -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

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