Re: checkzone

2009-01-05 Thread John Wobus
Running an awk or perl script along with checkzones should be able to do this site-specific check (and others you might find helpful) quite easily. On Dec 30, 2008, at 7:51 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: In message <7227c6c70812300937s7a4be464h16db91c6ead84...@mail.gmail.com>, "Mike Zupan" write

Re: Bind open to query from anyone

2009-01-06 Thread John Wobus
As you suspect, this is a bad idea. Those who cannot query the server cannot poison the cache using the loopholes in the DNS protocol, i.e. put false data in your nameserver for names like www.google.com, www.yahoo.com, etc. There can be other impediments to poisoning the cache in this manner, bu

Re: Avoiding being used as DDoS reflector.

2009-01-19 Thread John Wobus
server enough to get some confusing "hits" of matching port, ID, and server of outstanding queries? Even if you block recursive error returns, would an attack using valid authoritative answers be equally harmful to the victim? John ___

Re: Disable cache in bind 9.6

2009-01-20 Thread John Wobus
Disabling the cache makes sense if the purpose of your nameserver is to provide your authoritative zone data and you have a different nameserver to handle your site's general DNS queries. TTL settings are part of authoritative zone data, which is completely independent of whether you disable cach

Collision detection by reverse DNS lookup?

2009-01-21 Thread John Craig
I am looking to set up DHCP in an environment that does not support Dynamic DNS. There are many servers that will not be using DHCP in this environment. Ideally, I would like to do collision detection both by ping (which I know can be done) and reverse DNS lookup. I know that ping collision

reverse lookup to CNAME

2009-01-23 Thread John Bond
Hello All, Sorry for the bad subject but i wasn't really sure how i could best describe my circumstances. I would like to ask anyone out there if something im proposing to implment is incorrect or just plain stupid. Ok so the situation is that we have one set of developers who like to call there

Re: reverse lookup to CNAME

2009-01-25 Thread John Bond
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 4:06 AM, Barry Margolin wrote: > Why don't you just use normal reverse DNS: > > zone for 1.1.1.in-addr.arpa > > 1 IN PTR metis.local. > IN PTR bob-www-sol-l01.local. I read there were problems having 2 PTR records for the same ip. I know its in the RFC but thought MTA's

Re: reverse lookup to CNAME

2009-01-25 Thread John Bond
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > if metis.local is a CNAME, the PTR shouldn't point to it. > -- could you please explain this. When i tried this host did not resolve the cname. i.e a host 1.1.1.1 returned metis.local. it did not know to resolve metis.local as b

Re: reverse lookup to CNAME

2009-01-26 Thread John Bond
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: >> When i tried this host did not resolve >> the cname. i.e a host 1.1.1.1 returned metis.local. it did not know >> to resolve metis.local as bob > > the host 1.1.1.1 returned that 1.1.1.1.in-addr.arpa is a CNAME to > metis.loc

Collision detection by reverse DNS lookup?

2009-01-26 Thread John Craig
I am looking to set up DHCP in an environment that does not support Dynamic DNS. There are many servers that will not be using DHCP in this environment. Ideally, I would like to do collision detection both by ping (which I know can be done) and reverse DNS lookup. I know that ping collision dete

Collision detection by reverse DNS lookup?

2009-01-26 Thread John Craig
detection is possible. How about reverse DNS lookup? Thanks for your thoughts! John ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Automation packages

2009-01-27 Thread John Craig
tool, package, or approach? Thanks for your thoughts! John ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Question re separating caching and authoritative servers

2009-02-20 Thread John Wobus
local clients could be unable to resolve names of local servers, etc. Any especially good or bad practices? Things that have worked well or poorly? Right now, I'm leaning toward having the caching server transfer key zones. John Wobus ___ bind-use

Re: Hostname Naming Compliance

2009-02-24 Thread John Wobus
e RFC process so they can easily look up what the rules are. However, some folks do promote and make use of these sorts of Internet improvements without bothering to do that. John On Feb 24, 2009, at 2:24 AM, David Ford wrote: Here's a question. Are we incapable of dealing with things like

Re: Bind not starting

2010-10-01 Thread John Wingenbach
NS records must point to an A record. ns1 and ns2 .nsdomain.com do not have A records defined for them according to the zone file. -- John On 10/1/2010 12:14 AM, rams wrote: Hi, I have configured records as follows in bind. When we start the bind 9.7, bind is not starting. But bind is

Re: multiple slave zones pointing to same file?

2010-10-02 Thread John Wingenbach
Simply set the "file" option to the same name on the slave server. On 10/2/2010 2:59 PM, Doug Barton wrote: On 10/2/2010 11:16 AM, online-reg wrote: Hi All: I’m building a new Bind 9.7.1-P2 slave server and am taking an opportunity to review my conf files. I have a number of zones on the prim

Re: multiple slave zones pointing to same file?

2010-10-02 Thread John Wingenbach
Doesn't support it? Since when does named not allow you to use the same file name for more then one zone? I've been doing that for several years. -- John Wingenbach On 10/2/2010 6:49 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: In message<58f2f2eb90f24743a050575c87c7c...@nyoffice.enigmedia.lo

Multiple zones pointing to same zone file

2010-10-19 Thread John Wingenbach
in a supported fashion despite that it has been working this way. :) -- John ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: Loading MX record with illegal preference (Lame subject replaced: clarification

2010-10-22 Thread John Wingenbach
, RFC 1035. -- John On 10/22/2010 8:39 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 06:01:22PM +0530, rams wrote a message of 42 lines which said: I have a record in BIND as follows: mxdomain.com. 86400 IN MX 65536 gmail.com. I don't think you tell us the truth. Because

Re: clarification

2010-10-22 Thread John Wobus
y use a legal number instead, or it simply leave out that record. RFCs merely say 65535 is the maximum allowed. Specifying what to do when reading a zone file that exceeds this maximum is one of an infinite number of possible input errors that RFCs have nothing specifi

US DNSSEC Key

2010-12-01 Thread John Williams
I'm being told there is an RSA verification failure on the .US domain. I''m getting details from the following; http://dnsviz.net/d/us/dnssec/ I have a signed zone under us. How does this affect my domain and other signed zones under .US? ___

Re: Black berry

2010-12-07 Thread John Payne
I can guarantee that ns1.nameserver.net was not provided to this user by anyone in a position to do so authoritatively. On Dec 7, 2010, at 10:23 AM, Greg Whynott wrote: > i'm wondering if domain.net and ns1.nameserver.net are defaults which haven't > been configured yet. but he is a senior

DIG Source IP

2010-12-09 Thread John Williams
If I have a Linux host with multiple IP's, is there a way to utilize the DIG command such that the query appears like it's coming from different IP addresses? So If I have 10 virtual IP's, is there a way to control the source IP of the query? I've referenced the DIG man page and it doesn't app

Re: why queries rejected?

2011-01-21 Thread John Wobus
It might not be your bug. It might be other sites. As was said, bind can log info that would help explain it. Or if the number is rising continuously, you can capture a bunch of dns queries with tcpdump or a similar program and look over a sample of the rejected queries. On Jan 18, 2011, at 9:

Re: what's a valid domain name?

2011-02-04 Thread John Wobus
To add to the story, I added a rule to our DNS administration system that we'll only allow hostnames that include at least one alphabetic. John On Feb 4, 2011, at 11:26 AM, John Wobus wrote: So 10.14.22.11 is a legal hostname, right? We had a recent experience where our DNS administr

Re: what's a valid domain name?

2011-02-04 Thread John Wobus
www.example.com just fine. John Wobus Cornell On Jan 30, 2011, at 7:30 AM, p...@mail.nsbeta.info wrote: From RFC 1123 One aspect of host name syntax is hereby changed: the restriction on the first character is relaxed to allow either a letter or a digit. Host software MUST support

Re: How to allow set Host file dns query priorities in BIND

2011-02-25 Thread John Wobus
ice that always resolves to something or other. We also have an incentive to get rid of that app, tell others about its weaknesses, etc. John ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: Help with unresolvable domain (subdomain, actually)

2011-03-04 Thread John Wobus
ad balancers allow configuration of a server D to be used only if C is down as well. Address C or D could be configured to be 0.0.0.0 and configured with no test for "up-ness". (Not that I'm completely happy with 0.0.0.0 or any other address that local folks could conce

Slaves and views

2011-03-04 Thread John Wobus
ven't done much. John Wobus Cornell ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

CVE-2011-0414 and Bind 9.7.3

2011-03-04 Thread John Hascall
How sure are we that 9.7.3 fixes CVE-2011-0414? Because we are seeing behaviour that looks like CVE-2011-0414 on our 9.7.3 server... Thanks, John --- John Hascall, j...@iastate.edu Team Lead, NIADS (Network

Re: CVE-2011-0414 and Bind 9.7.3

2011-03-05 Thread John Hascall
is an IXFR and then boom no answering queries. We did an emergency upgrade to 9.8 so we won't have any more details about 9.7.3, sorry. John ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: dots in hostnames problem

2011-03-09 Thread John Wobus
;assume" anything about subdomains: it's just a convenience for abbreviating the file. If you need a consistent format for some purpose, you could use the output of named-compilezone. John ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: dots in hostnames problem

2011-03-11 Thread John Wobus
On Mar 10, 2011, at 4:24 PM, Matt Rae wrote: Thanks guys, sounds like a solution would be to transfer the zone files outside of bind. I'll give some of the suggestions a try. Matt I can't help but be curious. What problem would be solved by transferring the zone files outside of b

Re: ip6.arpa help

2011-03-18 Thread John Wobus
de two top-level PTR domains for IPV6: one for full records, and the other for subnet-wide wildcards.) John ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: dns RR method is not equal balanced?

2011-03-31 Thread John Wobus
, the pattern should shift, i.e., it wouldn't always be that this one IP gets most of the load. If the clients are daemons that stick to a server for months based upon a single DNS lookup, then this time might be very long. If you're dealing with typical web hits, such

Re: Bogus Wild Card DNS

2011-04-08 Thread John Wobus
he form whatever.com match the * A record. DNS's rules for wildcarding have been known to trip up a lot of people, so look for a full explanation. John ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: priority with A record?

2011-04-08 Thread John Wobus
an A record in the zone file, but perhaps my memory is playing tricks on me. John W ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: AW: ipv6 PTR in zone file

2011-04-15 Thread John Wobus
$tail) = map { join '', map { sprintf '%04s',$_; } split /:/,$_; } split /::/, $addr . '::', 3; my $hex32 = '0' x 32; substr( $hex32, 0, length($head) ) = $head; substr( $hex32, 32, -length($tail) ) = $tail;

Re: question on minimal file permissions

2011-04-18 Thread John Bond
On 4/18/11 2:17 PM, hostmas...@g-net.be wrote: > > and when I configure my zone like this in named.conf.local : > > zone "zone.be" { > type master; > file "/dnszones/db.zone.be.signed"; > auto-dnssec maintain; > key-directory "/dnskeys/"; > sig-validity-in

DNSSEC, whitehouse, isc, and troubleshooting...

2011-04-18 Thread John Williams
>From my signed domain when I query www.isc.org (w/ +dnssec) I get the ad flag >as expected. I don't see that flag when I query whitehouse.gov (w/ +dnssec) >and I know that zone is signed. Is anyone else seeing this behavior? Also, is there a link that addresses troubleshooting or diagnosing

Re: how to check if a slave zone is expired

2011-05-05 Thread John Bond
s which expire in the next 24 hours" ${EMAIL} == Regards John ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: how to check if a slave zone is expired

2011-05-06 Thread John Wobus
ren't happening long before the expiration, and if the zone is pretty static (e.g. a single www.example.com address), you don't have to jump very fast to address things if the expire interval is weeks. If folks are depending upon records that are dynamic, you want to respond pretty quick

Wild cards in zone file

2011-05-24 Thread John Kennedy
everything else to go to 10.10.10.5 *.project A 10.10.10.5 Is this possible? Thanks, John -- John Kennedy ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: Wild cards in zone file

2011-05-24 Thread John Kennedy
That worked. Thanks guys. John On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:25, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > On 24.05.11 09:55, John Kennedy wrote: > > I tried to google this but could not hit the right keywords (been a long > > week)... > > > > I have 3 hosts on a d

comp.protocols.dns.bind

2011-05-28 Thread John Marshall
Has the newsgroup gateway been switched off or is it just broken? The most recent post for this newsgroup in Google groups is 15-Feb-2011. -- John Marshall ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo

DNSSEC versus multiple views

2011-05-31 Thread John Wobus
real-world problem cases? John Wobus Cornell University ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: BIND 9.7 Serial Number Decrease Problem

2011-06-17 Thread John Wobus
ware of and I'm wrong. John ___ 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 9 performance

2011-06-17 Thread John Wobus
, etc. If your spam filter retrieves its data via dns records, that could push up your query rate and cache size. John Wobus On Jun 15, 2011, at 5:52 PM, Mark K. Pettit wrote: One of the things that got us is we didn't know BIND 8 automatically created delegation records in a zon

Re: Insufficient DNS Source Port Randmoization

2011-08-01 Thread John Bond
On 7/28/11 9:43 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > Did you try to obtain an independent confirmation from a reliable > source? (I do not know this product, but I distrust private black > boxes.) I recommend: NeXpose is a good vulnerability auditor, it is a product by Rapid7 the owners of metasploit.

DNSSEC and MS AD

2011-08-09 Thread John Williams
My company (as many) run Microsoft Active Directory internally and we use BIND for our Internet DNS presence. We have had our domain singed for some time. Now I've been tasked to look into Signing our AD implementation. MS has their own version of DNSSEC for their DNS but my question is would

Re: DNSSEC and MS AD

2011-08-09 Thread John Williams
--- On Tue, 8/9/11, Chris Buxton wrote: > From: Chris Buxton > Subject: Re: DNSSEC and MS AD > To: "John Williams" > Cc: bind-users@lists.isc.org > Date: Tuesday, August 9, 2011, 5:00 PM > On Aug 9, 2011, at 9:13 AM, John > Williams wrote: > > > M

Re: Proper CNAME interpretation

2011-09-14 Thread John Payne
On Sep 14, 2011, at 4:35 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > Is there a rule that says how a resolver should behave in cases where > there is both an A record and also a CNAME record for the same FQDN? > Which one should take precedence, the A or the CNAME? RFC 1034, Section 3.6.2: "If a CNAME RR

Re: Max Cache Objects

2011-09-23 Thread John Wobus
Is it possible that your DNS performance issue isn't a cache issue? For example, does your system need to invoke bind with -4? John On Sep 21, 2011, at 5:00 PM, TMK wrote: I have couple of questions. bind cache memory limit is 4GB. can I increase it. or this is hard- coded limit.

Re: DNS-cache with custom gTLDs

2011-09-23 Thread John Wobus
in, building a kluge to work around such a thing wouldn't be a good strategy. John ___ 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: NXDOMAIN redirection in BIND 9.9

2011-09-30 Thread John Wobus
clamoring for? Yes. I'm a BIND user who is clamoring to keep such a feature out of BIND. John ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org htt

Re: bind-9.8.1: INSIST(! dns_rdataset _isassociated(sigrdataset)) failed

2011-11-17 Thread John Wobus
create a subsequent, more obscure crash. I assume the fact that bad data triggered an abort is due to a bug. That said, in this case they might be changing this specific abort to a warning, fixing up what state they can and crossing their fingers. John On Nov 16, 2011, at 7:35 AM, David Ford

Re: trigger point for new bug

2011-11-17 Thread John Wobus
ce to confirm that some site knows their crash happened that way. John ___ 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

Re: Port number in A record in zone file

2011-11-17 Thread John Wobus
A record? You can't. nameservice SRV record? :) John P.S. I'm fully aware that no DNS record is of any use if clients don't look it up. ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this l

Re: Algorithm 'When to use EDNS0'?

2011-12-02 Thread John Wobus
ans of doing lookups independent of your client's dns-related behavior and configuration. It's the one widely-distributed tool with that property. Such a tool is invaluable when trying to determine or confirm specific server behavior. John Wobus Cornell U __

Re: split horizon and zone transfers to secondary DNS servers

2011-12-02 Thread John Wobus
also gets an IP of its own. With the latter solution, depending on the situation, you might figure out some short cuts. But TSIG looks awfully attractive in comparison. The book DNS & BIND Cookbook addresses the issue. John Wobus Cornell U ___ Pl

Re: Cache only and reverse mapping

2011-12-16 Thread John Wobus
x27;d have to know what you're trying to accomplish. John Wobus Cornell U ___ 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: CNAME only zone?

2011-12-16 Thread John Wobus
in their customer interface or store in their zone-file-equivalent is arbitrary. Makes DNSSEC interesting. It's always helpful to be able to tell your customer "yes, we gave you a CNAME, just like you asked for. We do it even if our competitors say no!" John Wobus P.S. Hm, I wonde

Re: Cache only and reverse mapping

2011-12-16 Thread John Wobus
pace. This also gives you some of the risk advantages you'd get from running separate instances. John Wobus Cornell University ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-user

Re: New problem with "lame-server" after Dist-Upgrade

2012-01-06 Thread John Wobus
line includes the concept of 'unreachable'? I seem to recall the definition 'delegation target that answers without aa'. However, given the '(network unreachable)' comment, I agree with your diagnosis. John Wobus Cornell ___ 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: variable dig results

2012-01-06 Thread John Wobus
different client IPs, Bind "views" configured on the server could cause such a different. John Wobus ___ 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

Fwd: forwarding "@" to a different domain?

2012-01-13 Thread John Wobus
;t look up and use such DNS records. _http._tcp.mydomain.com. SRV 1 1 80 mydomain.myshopify.com. _http._tcp.www.mydomain.com. SRV 1 1 80 mydomain.myshopify.com. John Wobus ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubsc

Re: allow-query for a zone

2012-01-20 Thread John Wobus
ay to implement policy, e.g. to make it less likely to reach known phishing sites. John Wobus Cornell ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org

Wildcards and the include directive?

2012-01-24 Thread Alfie John
Hi guys, I've looked hard but can't find any reference to using wildcards inside an include directive. Does this feature exist in 9? I've found this setup quite useful for other services like Apache etc. What I want to do is be able to configure multiple zones by something like: include "/etc/

Re: Wildcards and the include directive?

2012-01-24 Thread Alfie John
Hi Mark, On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 07:48:25PM +1100, Mark Andrews wrote: > Named supports adding and removing zones via rndc. > > rndc addzone > rndc delzone Thanks for the pointer. I didn't know about the rndc commands (the man pages say nothing). However, looking at the onl

Re: Wildcards and the include directive?

2012-01-24 Thread Alfie John
Hi SM, On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:55:25AM -0800, SM wrote: > At 00:29 24-01-2012, Alfie John wrote: > >I've looked hard but can't find any reference to using wildcards inside > >an include directive. Does this feature exist in 9? > > http://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/c

Re: Wildcards and the include directive?

2012-01-24 Thread Alfie John
Hi Jan-Piet, On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 09:58:49AM +0100, Jan-Piet Mens wrote: > What you could do though is to create the content of the file you're > including, which ought to solve your problem. > > cd /var/path > ls > /etc/bind/sites-enabled.include > > And then in named.conf [

Re: nslookup/dig question

2012-01-25 Thread John Wingenbach
You "copied over the zone files". However, the bind 9 server is responding with NXDOMAIN. It appears to me that the server does not believe it is authoritative for the zone. Verify that the server indeed believes it is (look at the logs on startup). Take a look at your named configuration t

Re: Wildcards and the include directive?

2012-01-30 Thread Alfie John
purged, I would have to run addzone again? > > No. Zones are added to / removed from a .nzf "cache" which is created > dynamically by named. I've got a tiny writeup at [1]. Cool. Thanks for the link. Alfie -- Alfie John http://h4c.kr __

Re: No name resolution when slave is down

2009-03-20 Thread John Wobus
e, both servers would be listed in the authoritative data as well as the delegation records within the delegating zone, and if one server were down, the other server could be found and queried. John On Mar 20, 2009, at 7:51 AM, Dennis J. wrote: Hi, This morning the slave in our nameserver setu

Re: "stealth master" DNS Security

2009-03-27 Thread John Wobus
On Mar 25, 2009, at 5:20 AM, Ram Akuka wrote: Is there’s any way I can encrypt the zone files in the slave server, that way no one can have access to the actual zone data beside the master server. (if for example someone will hack to the slave DNS he won’t have the zones data). No. __

Re: name server zone list

2009-04-03 Thread John Wobus
ur design creativity and your self-discipline in always adding a record for each zone are your only limitations. If you wish to get really fancy, you could script the rebuilding of your named.conf file to do so using data gathered with this dig command. John On Apr 3, 2009, at 9:15 AM, Sandy M

Re: [OT] zonedit.com and changing DNS servers from current provider

2009-04-10 Thread John Wobus
On Apr 7, 2009, at 5:36 PM, Michelle Konzack wrote: Hmmm, my own DNS is working, but HOW can I test a foreign DNS stup? If your own DNS works at your own site, you can see what the rest of the world is getting by any of the following: -To do a quick check to see that the world is getting the ri

Re: C/C++ version Load balancer DNS

2009-04-10 Thread John Wobus
. Some simple tests would answer the questions for the pieces under your control, but if you need to serve clients across the Internet, you might be taking your chances regarding the world's caching nameservers. Also, depending upon specfics, it may be that you want to use a short, non-zero TTL.

Re: can bind filter the result

2009-04-24 Thread John Wobus
On Apr 20, 2009, at 2:55 AM, Ken Lai wrote: let's take an example. my DNS server called SrvA, the outer DNS server called SrvB. normally, the client sent the query to SrvA, and SrvA forwards it to SrvB. and SrvA return a result which came from SrvB to the client. unfortunately the SrvB sometime

Re: Delegation or PEBKAC problems?

2009-05-05 Thread John Hascall
ht not be able to do that). If your first server can't talk to the other (delegated zone's) NS's (say because of a firewall issue) you can get something that matches what you seem to be getting. John --- Joh

Delegation of DHCP blocks within same server?

2009-05-20 Thread John Cole
ne files on the same name server. Thanks much for the assistance, jc ___ JOHN C. COLE | Technical Product Management Specialist DIGITAL REEF 85 Swanson Road | Boxborough, MA 01719 | 978-893-1023 www.digitalreefinc.com<h

RE: Delegation of DHCP blocks within same server?

2009-05-20 Thread John Cole
;t want to do the delegation (like I'm now doing for the other zone!) John -Original Message- From: Matthew Pounsett [mailto:m...@conundrum.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 7:58 PM To: John Cole Cc: bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: Re: Delegation of DHCP blocks within same serv

Re: Transfer delays

2009-05-29 Thread John Wobus
As per the other answers I've seen posted, such a delay is often caused by notifies not reaching the slave from the master. In such a case, you would not expect a delay of a fixed time, but rather delays over a limited range of times, e.g. up to 15 minutes. A notify is a kind of DNS query, norma

When dnssec-validation stops working?

2009-08-16 Thread John Marshall
ed-keys section of the configuration. I'd be glad to be referred to any troubleshooting tips. Thank you. -- John Marshall pgpNYJ8zqRzOX.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/m

Re: When dnssec-validation stops working?

2009-08-16 Thread John Marshall
On Sun, 16 Aug 2009, 23:39 -0400, Paul Wouters wrote: > On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, John Marshall wrote: > > >named[204]: no valid RRSIG resolving 'cvsup.au.freebsd.org/A/IN': > >123.136.33.242#53 > > >What should I do to troubleshoot this if it happens again? >

Re: When dnssec-validation stops working?

2009-08-17 Thread John Marshall
The problem recurred. This time I decided to add the .org key to my trusted-keys and see what would happen. I added the key, reloaded the configuration (rndc reconfig), and queries are resolving properly again. -- John Marshall pgppUbJIgQaVZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Test is "unresolved" building 9.6.1-P1

2009-08-21 Thread John Center
. I:the test case caused exception 6 R:UNRESOLVED What does this test for, & what is the issue here? Thanks. -John -- John Center Villanova University ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Invalid lan. and local. TLDs

2009-08-28 Thread John Horne
te of stats by accident, but can't seem to find stats from other root servers. Anyone know if there are other stats available? Thanks, John. -- --- John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 587287

Re: no more recursive clients: quota reached

2009-08-28 Thread John Wobus
it might be useful to set up a separate nameserver dedicated to the demanding app.) The age of the queries can also be revealing. John ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: Invalid lan. and local. TLDs

2009-08-29 Thread John Horne
On Sat, 2009-08-29 at 13:24 +1000, Mark Andrews wrote: > In message , "Bill Larson" writes: > > John Horne said: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I noticed one of the root servers stats > > > ( http://stats.l.root-servers.org/cgi-bi

Re: Invalid lan. and local. TLDs

2009-08-31 Thread John Horne
LD unless it had only one NS and that was changed). John. -- -- John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 587287Fax: +44 (0)1752 587001 ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.

Bind 9.6.1-P1 ignoring listen-on directive

2009-09-09 Thread John Center
y (cache) 'ATP.villanova.edu/A/IN' denied Is this a known problem? It's an issue for us because we restrict DNS queries to particular interfaces. If it isn't a known bug, I'd be glad to help troubleshoot this problem. Thanks. -John -- John Center Villanova Uni

Re: Bind 9.6.1-P1 ignoring listen-on directive

2009-09-09 Thread John Center
Of course, right after hitting enter on this message, I came across a message from last year about localhost mapping to all interfaces, not just 127.0.0.1. I created a "loopback" acl & used it instead that worked. Sorry for the noise. -John On 09/09/2009 03:04 P

Re: problem with bind book example

2009-09-24 Thread John Horne
On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 15:17 -0700, Linda W wrote: > > In my main config it's in the section: > root "." IN { > type hint; > file "root.hint"; > }; > I don't have the BIND book to hand, but that should be: zone "." I

Re: Migrating DNS servers, need advice on hardware

2009-09-25 Thread John Wobus
How can observer the query count? Is there a command or table or something or is it just how many hits the systems gets on port 53 identified from some form of logging software? BIND logs hit statistics periodically to syslog, and you can use "rndc stats" to append statistics immediately to a fi

Nslookup not showng TTL

2009-10-15 Thread John Horne
.uk internet address = 141.163.177.1 www.plymouth.ac.uk canonical name = extranet.plymouth.ac.uk. Name: extranet.plymouth.ac.uk Address: 141.163.163.185 > == How can I see the TTL value using nslookup? Thanks, John.

Re: Nslookup not showng TTL

2009-10-15 Thread John Horne
On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 10:47 +0200, Adam Tkac wrote: > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 09:06:56AM +0100, John Horne wrote: > > > > How can I see the TTL value using nslookup? > > I'm not sure how force nslookup to show TTL but the `dig` utility is > far more better tool for g

Re: Nslookup not showng TTL

2009-10-15 Thread John Horne
ot;.) Don't get me wrong here - I've been using dig for years, and only use nslookup if I have to on my Windows laptop at work, on the Linux/UNIX systems dig is only used. If nslookup was no longer present in the BIND distribution then that doesn't bother me at all. John. -- Jo

Split view logging?

2009-11-17 Thread John Horne
Hello, Using BIND 9.5.1, is it possible to configure split view logging - that is, a separate logging channel/category for different views? I'm trying to separate out the queries of our local clients from the external ones. Thanks, John. -- John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel

Re: Split view logging?

2009-11-23 Thread John Horne
On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 14:55 -0800, Gregory Hicks wrote: > > From: Chris Buxton > > Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:16:18 -0800 > > > > On Nov 17, 2009, at 7:02 AM, John Horne wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > Using BIND 9.5.1, is it po

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