Re: Can I build a new DNS/BIND system parallel to our existing DNS production system?

2012-05-03 Thread John Miller
Hi Samad, It's entirely possible to roll out a parallel BIND installation. We're doing something similar at Brandeis right now--a mix of BIND and PowerDNS servers. I take it that your current BIND setup is purely authoritative? Or is it also handling recursive requests? John On 05/03/20

Re: Moving DNS out of non-cooperative provider

2012-06-18 Thread John Miller
Hi Alexander, We've actually run into this before. Once upon a time, RCN cable used to run some slave servers for us, but we've long since moved away from them, including zone transfers. We yanked them from our registrar a long time ago, and life was good. For whatever reason, RCN's still

Re: Moving DNS out of non-cooperative provider

2012-06-19 Thread John Miller
eople's domains), so I've contacted them again. Hopefully the cease-and-desist won't be necessary. John On 06/19/2012 06:45 AM, Tony Finch wrote: Mark Andrews wrote: In message<4fdf631a.4060...@brandeis.edu>, John Miller writes: We've actually run into this bef

Re: Moving DNS out of non-cooperative provider

2012-06-25 Thread John Miller
ong shot! John On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > > In message <4fdf631a.4060...@brandeis.edu>, John Miller writes: > > Hi Alexander, > > > > We've actually run into this before. Once upon a time, RCN cable used > > to run some sl

using 127.0.0.1 in resolv.conf

2012-07-23 Thread John Miller
e to a bug report and/or changelog for this? A quick Google search for 'bind resolver source address bug' didn't yield much. John -- John Miller Systems Engineer Brandeis University 781-736-4619 johnm...@brandeis.edu ___ Please visit h

Re: using 127.0.0.1 in resolv.conf

2012-07-24 Thread John Miller
Thanks, Kevin. It sounds like if there was a bug in the resolver when using 127.0.0.1, it's long since been resolved. For the reason of portability alone, 127.0.0.1's a good choice, and what we've been doing. I hadn't considered the NIC offloading issue, but I suppose it _could_ happen. Th

Re: using 127.0.0.1 in resolv.conf

2012-07-24 Thread John Miller
On 07/24/2012 05:10 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: No. It was a kernel bug. The kernel wouldn't let you un-bind the socket. When you sent to 127.0.0.1 the local address was set to 127.0.0.1 then when you sent to some other address 127.0.0.1 was used as the source address which doesn't work. Modern r

Re: issues with BIND since a change of server

2012-10-04 Thread John Miller
Hi Thomas, Since this is Ubuntu, what does /var/log/syslog have to say about the matter? Do you have any specific configuration for rndc controls, or are you primarily using the stock Ubuntu named.conf.local and named.conf.options? John On 10/04/2012 11:27 AM, Thomas Manson wrote: Hi,

transparent DNS load-balancing with a Cisco ACE

2012-10-19 Thread John Miller
raffic? Not tying up NAT tables seems like the way to go, but lack of probes is a deal-breaker on this end. -- John Miller Systems Engineer Brandeis University johnm...@brandeis.edu ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to un

Re: transparent DNS load-balancing with a Cisco ACE

2012-10-19 Thread John Miller
IMO, the only boxes which should have IPs in both public and private netblocks should be your firewall/NAT routing boxes. That's how we usually have our servers set up--the load balancer gets the public IPs, the servers get the private IPs, and we use NAT to translate between the two. Here

Re: transparent DNS load-balancing with a Cisco ACE

2012-10-19 Thread John Miller
Thanks Daniel. Good to hear of someone using NAT for DNS traffic. My fears of it are mostly performance-based--every DNS query takes up a new entry in the ACE's NAT table. In our case, that's thousands of queries per second that the ACE has to keep in memory. I've shown it to be a slight (2

Re: transparent DNS load-balancing with a Cisco ACE

2012-10-25 Thread John Miller
/25/2012 11:53 AM, Phil Mayers wrote: On 25/10/12 15:54, John Miller wrote: Is BIND associating each request with a particular socket, then? It would certainly make sense if that were the case. This was something I didn't fully realize. Yes. Something else I didn't fully realize w

Re: Spotty Lookups on One of Our Networks

2012-10-30 Thread John Miller
Hi Martin, Just to clarify, how many domain names are doing this for you? Are they all remote domains, or are some of them okstate.edu domains? John -- John Miller Systems Engineer Brandeis University johnm...@brandeis.edu On 10/30/2012 04:10 PM, Martin McCormick wrote: I don&#

Re: Spotty Lookups on One of Our Networks

2012-10-31 Thread John Miller
7 ms > > Barry Margolin writes: > > I'm not sure what you mean by that sentence about getting authoritative > > DNSs from X when it sbould be from Y. Can you post the actual dig? > > > > BTW, @servername doesn't mean much when using +trace, since +trace > &

Re: User wanting to use a .local domain to host DNS

2012-11-14 Thread John Miller
Hey there Hal, It doesn't look like .local is officially reserved (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2606), but .localdomain definitely is. John John Miller Systems Engineer Brandeis University 781-736-4619 johnm...@brandeis.edu On 11/14/2012 10:02 AM, King, Harold Clyde (Hal) wrote: I&#x

Re: User wanting to use a .local domain to host DNS

2012-11-14 Thread John Miller
Thanks for the catch--guess I was writing a little too quickly this morning. .localhost is reserved; .localdomain isn't. John On 11/14/2012 11:17 AM, SM wrote: At 07:15 14-11-2012, John Miller wrote: It doesn't look like .local is officially reserved (http://tools.ietf.org/ht

Change in statistics format

2012-11-15 Thread John Miller
ormat, and wanted to be sure I had my ducks in a row. -- John Miller Systems Engineer Brandeis University johnm...@brandeis.edu ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list

Re: Change in statistics format

2012-11-15 Thread John Miller
Thanks, Phil. Those were my thoughts as well. For the present, I'll write my own monitoring plugin to parse the XML data. John On 11/15/2012 11:47 AM, Phil Mayers wrote: On 15/11/12 16:44, John Miller wrote: Hello everyone, When did BIND 9 switch over from the older I think tha

Re: Change in statistics format

2012-11-15 Thread John Miller
work for us. John On 11/15/2012 11:58 AM, Carsten Strotmann wrote: Hello John, John Miller writes: Hello everyone, When did BIND 9 switch over from the older +++ Statistics Dump +++ (timestamp) success # referral # nxrrset # nxdomain # recursion # failure # --- Statistics Dump --- (time

Re: Change in statistics format

2012-11-15 Thread John Miller
Thank you! Just downloaded a copy, and looks pretty straightforward. John On 11/15/2012 12:13 PM, Jan-Piet Mens wrote: Thanks, Phil. Those were my thoughts as well. For the present, I'll write my own monitoring plugin to parse the XML data. If you need some inspiration, I wrote a bit of C c

Re: Change in statistics format

2012-11-15 Thread John Miller
ges. John On 11/15/2012 12:22 PM, Evan Hunt wrote: On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 11:44:12AM -0500, John Miller wrote: Hello everyone, When did BIND 9 switch over from the older The new stats counters were added in 9.5.0. They're in all currently- supported releases; the old format is fully depr

Re: Cannot create A record issue

2013-02-20 Thread John Miller
Just to cover all the bases, you're doing your lookup directly against your server, correct? Easy to accidentally query a different nameserver and not see what you're expecting. Otherwise I'd second Warren's suggestion to double-check your serial number. John On 02/20/2013 12:40 PM, Jsillim

Resolver behavior on expired TTLs

2013-02-21 Thread John Miller
Hello everyone, Here's something I hadn't put much thought into until recently--it's never been a problem--how do resolvers behave when they receive a request for an expired entry in the cache, but cannot contact the authoritative nameserver? I'd imagine they return a SERVFAIL, but I could s

Re: Resolver behavior on expired TTLs

2013-02-21 Thread John Miller
Thanks, Matus. Much appreciated--a SERVFAIL is much better than an NXDOMAIN in this scenario. John On 02/21/2013 10:41 AM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 21.02.13 10:38, John Miller wrote: Here's something I hadn't put much thought into until recently--it's never been a

Re: 3rd party CNAMEs and open recursion

2013-03-04 Thread John Miller
On 03/04/2013 03:26 PM, Verne Britton wrote: my test server (its up and down a lot) is at yournameserver with these two test zones ... what I want to be able to do is: 1. serve the A records as authoritative Looks like it's working in that regard: jm@workstation:~$ dig +norecurse @yournamese

Re: This didn't work....

2013-04-26 Thread John Miller
Hi Lawrence, I'm going to answer your questions a bit out of order, but hopefully things'll still be clear. > How do you have an AD domain where your AD servers aren't authoritative > for itself? > > This is how our AD domain is set up -- the root of the AD domain is brandeis.edu, but the domain

Re: This didn't work....

2013-04-29 Thread John Miller
> Probably should've wrote that is the first case it was: > > $ORIGIN foo.example.com. > ... > ads NS ads.foo.example.com. > ... > ads A a.b.c.d > dc2 A a.b.c.e > dc3 A a.b.c.f > > And, the modified case was: > > $ORIGIN foo.example.com > ... > ads NS dc2.foo.example.com. > NS dc

Re: Queries using forwarders

2013-06-03 Thread John Miller
Hi Mike, To keep my answer simple, if BIND is set up to allow recursion, and gets a recursive query for a zone it's not authoritative for, it'll: 1) Answer from cache 2) pass the query off to the configured forwarders 3) If the forwarders are unavailable, follow delegation itself to answer th

Re: PTR files

2013-06-17 Thread John Miller
.isc.org/mailman/**listinfo/bind-users<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<https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: Secondary DNS question...

2013-06-20 Thread John Miller
_ > 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 > -- John Miller Systems En

RFC requirements for relative CNAME targets?

2013-07-18 Thread John Miller
Hey there folks, I know that for the following record in a zone file: host.example.com. -- John Miller Systems Engineer Brandeis University johnm...@brandeis.edu (781) 736-4619 ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to

Re: RFC requirements for relative CNAME targets?

2013-07-18 Thread John Miller
CNAME otherhost. be equally valid from an RFC perspective? Obviously this would also pertain to NS, MX, SRV, PTR, etc. records. John On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 4:12 PM, John Miller wrote: > Hey there folks, > > I know that for the following record in a zone file: > > host.exampl

Re: RFC requirements for relative CNAME targets?

2013-07-18 Thread John Miller
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Charles Swiger wrote: > On Jul 18, 2013, at 1:18 PM, John Miller wrote: > > I know that for the following record in example.com's zone file: > > > > host.example.com. IN CNAME otherhost > > > > BIND will retur

Re: RFC requirements for relative CNAME targets?

2013-07-18 Thread John Miller
On 07/18/2013 06:07 PM, Barry Margolin wrote: In article , John Miller wrote: I think what I was getting at was whether appending $ORIGIN to an unqualified target--only talking target, not label--was _required_ by the RFCs, and if so, the RFC/section. I'll read through 'em; was j

Re: RFC requirements for relative CNAME targets?

2013-07-18 Thread John Miller
Ryan wrote: Are you asking if the target of a CNAME need be an FQDN if $ORIGIN is defined? If so, no, I use short names (no trailing dot) all the time. *From*: John Miller [mailto:johnm...@brandeis.edu] *Sent*: Thursday, July 18, 2013 05:49 PM *To*: Bind Users Mailing List *Subject*: Re: RFC requir

Re: RFC requirements for relative CNAME targets?

2013-07-18 Thread John Miller
On 07/18/2013 06:07 PM, Barry Margolin wrote: In article , John Miller wrote: I think what I was getting at was whether appending $ORIGIN to an unqualified target--only talking target, not label--was _required_ by the RFCs, and if so, the RFC/section. I'll read through 'em; was j

Re: ISO or virtual appliance

2013-08-21 Thread John Miller
Hi Manish, You can always grab a pre-canned ISO from turnkeylinux.org. You could also use Puppet or Chef recipes to get BIND up and running. I'm sure someone also has a Vagrant box available -- try vagrantbox.es. Generally speaking, though, if you're using an appliance in production, you n

Re: how-to configure BIND or any DNS implementation for cloud infrastructure

2013-08-30 Thread John Miller
__ > 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 > -- John Miller Systems Engineer Brandeis University johnm...

DDNS update forwarding

2013-12-11 Thread John Miller
Hello folks, I'm getting ready to revamp our dynamic DNS setup here on campus, and am curious: what is everyone doing for update forwarding? Have you seen certain clients that will send updates based on NS records rather than the SOA record? Perhaps a better question is: has anyone been bit

Re: DDNS update forwarding

2013-12-12 Thread John Miller
On 12/11/2013 08:42 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: In message <52a8e44a.1070...@brandeis.edu>, John Miller writes: Hello folks, I'm getting ready to revamp our dynamic DNS setup here on campus, and am curious: what is everyone doing for update forwarding? Have you seen certain clients tha

Re: DNS passthrough on no explicit result?

2014-01-31 Thread John Miller
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Steve Presser wrote: > Hey all, > Please forgive me if any of my terminology is off - I have not spent as > much time in the documentation as I'd like. > I have an odd situation that I would like to know if it is possible and > would much appreciate a pointer to

Re: DNS passthrough on no explicit result?

2014-01-31 Thread John Miller
rom derived A or records. > > > Vernon Schryverv...@rhyolite.com > Indeed, the intent of my words was that SPF only makes sense if it's public--presumably you set up trust between your internal mail servers in other ways. It's not required for SMTP to work--plen

Re: how to modify the cache

2014-02-14 Thread John Miller
o modify the cache. > > Who can tell me how to do?Thanks. > Guanghua > > ___ > 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://list

Re: Can Master replicate zone options in Slave's named.conf.local file ???

2014-04-16 Thread John Miller
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Re: Dig for a reverse zone transfer

2014-04-22 Thread John Miller
hanks a lot !!! > > JeLo > ___ > 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-u

Re: Forwarding request to another DNS server but the same domain

2014-04-30 Thread John Miller
s://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 > -- John Miller Systems Engineer Brandeis University johnm...@brandeis.edu (781) 736-4619 ___

Re: Forwarding request to another DNS server but the same domain

2014-04-30 Thread John Miller
he same company, so I need that any client PC can > resolve a hostname from "company.com" domain, independently if this > record is in DNS1 or DNS2. > > Thanks again, regards. > > JeLo > > > > On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 5:21 PM, John Miller wrote: > >> Hi Jeronimo,

GSS-TSIG updates from Windows clients

2014-05-02 Thread John Miller
.edu' A named[12766]: client 129.64.8.232#49802: send named[12766]: client 129.64.8.232#49802: sendto named[12766]: client 129.64.8.232#49802: senddone named[12766]: client 129.64.8.232#49802: next Even though it sends valid TKEY credentials, why doesn't Windows actually sign its upda

Re: GSS-TSIG updates from Windows clients

2014-05-06 Thread John Miller
Thanks to both Mark and Nicholas for the help. Unfortunately, still not able to get this working (BIND 9.8.2 (RHEL 6) & AD 2008R2). It's a case of AD negotiating a TKEY (successfully), then reverting back to unsigned updates. If an update's not signed, doesn't matter what your update-policy

Re: Book recomendations?

2014-05-28 Thread John Miller
gt; https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users > _______ > 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/ma

Re: Reply Code 0x8083 vs 0x8080

2014-05-29 Thread John Miller
I'm curious as to > why BIND would respond with different codes. Thanks for any insights. > > ___ > 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/

Re: RPZ and www.rackspace.com

2014-05-30 Thread John Miller
It's surprising that more organizations don't fix this--it can be a serious DoS vulnerability if the record is important enough. Anyone know of tools that, given a zone or a set of labels, will test for this behavior? John On 05/30/2014 11:42 AM, David A. Evans wrote: To my questio

Re: stub zones

2014-06-02 Thread John Miller
:) its almost the same, as creating a local zone for something your not authoritative for and then having to maintain those records. but, i guess their may be cases where it may be useful i guess On Monday, June 2, 2014 1:33 PM, John Miller wrote: Evil? Seems a bit strong. Unusual

Re: stub zones

2014-06-02 Thread John Miller
e authoritative NS for that zone? unless your > changing the records > which is all bad > > > > > On Monday, June 2, 2014 2:18 PM, John Miller > wrote: > > > > Not quite, Bill. You point the zone at a different name server, but > _your_own_nameserver_ still does the

Re: DNS slave not synced after successfully zone transfer

2014-07-24 Thread John Miller
490 general: debug 1: dump_done: zone > 250.168.192.in-addr.arpa/IN/vi_local_resolver: enter > 24-Jul-2014 14:48:42.490 general: debug 3: zone > 250.168.192.in-addr.arpa/IN/vi_local_resolver: dns_journal_compact: not > found > > ---

Re: DNS slave not synced after successfully zone transfer

2014-07-24 Thread John Miller
i then check if > 101.250.168.192.in-addr.arpa PTR is cached? > > > On 24-07-2014 15:35, John Miller wrote: > > On NS #2, if you run rndc freeze/rndc thaw, what does the actual zone > file look like? Also, what does your cache look like? Is > 101.250.168.192.in-addr.arpa

Re: DNS slave not synced after successfully zone transfer

2014-07-24 Thread John Miller
de > buffering. DiG (or even host) are much better than nslookup > for diagnostic purposes. > > hth > > > On Thursday, July 24, 2014 8:00 AM, John Miller > wrote: > > > To check your cache, just run rndc dump. It'll write a dump of the BIND > cache to your

Re: Promoting slave to master DNS server with dynamic updates

2014-09-11 Thread John Miller
ntly will not be liable should its content be > altered. > ** > > ___ > Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to > unsubscribe from this list > >

Re: Bind Migration best practice steps

2014-12-16 Thread John Miller
r named.conf files if you're worried about your configuration at all. The main principle here is that you shouldn't take down the 9.3.2 server until you're _sure_ the 9.8.1 server is fully ready to roll. Ideally you should be able to do this with zero downtime, but much depends o

Re: Bind Migration best practice steps

2014-12-16 Thread John Miller
dentical) would also be helpful, as would copies of your named.conf >> files if you're worried about your configuration at all. >> >> The main principle here is that you shouldn't take down the 9.3.2 >> server until you're _sure_ the 9.8.1 server is fully read

Re: How reliable is RPZ in production? I'm seeing flakiness in testing.

2015-01-06 Thread John Miller
uarantine zones? Presumably you're using some sort of DDNS publishing that gets triggered when a client does something suspicious. John -- John Miller Systems Engineer Brandeis University johnm...@brandeis.edu On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 5:52 PM, Anne Bennett wrote: > I'm playing wi

Re: Public DNS

2015-04-02 Thread John Miller
n to DNS in general as well as BIND configuration. Start there, experiment around a bit with some sandbox vms, then come back here when you've got some more specific questions. John -- John Miller Systems Engineer Brandeis University johnm...@brandeis.edu On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 9:25 AM, Heamna

Re: "#service named restart" fails with a weird message

2015-06-19 Thread John Miller
Semicolons! You need one for the second ip range in your list, and you need one after the zone file for your localhost zone. The error message really does tell you what you need in this case ;-) The config you pasted only has nine lines, so I'm assuming that the last error really is on line 8/9

Re: dig @server foobar +trace +recurse

2015-07-08 Thread John Miller
For my part, I'd be curious to know what sort of problem you're trying to solve with dig. We might be able to shed a little more light on what the best command would be for you. The +recurse gets overridden when you use +trace: +[no]recurse ... Recursion is automatically disabled when

Re: dig @server foobar +trace +recurse

2015-07-09 Thread John Miller
> > It's by tracing the queries down from the root zone several > times with "dig +trace" that it finally hit me what was going > on, and in retrospect it's obvious. At first I had been looking > for some kind of race condition with delegation data from the > grandparent zone getting cached, and t

Re: dig @server foobar +trace +recurse

2015-07-09 Thread John Miller
Even after flushing Google's cache ( >> https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/cache), I still get the >> same response. Does anyone have insight on +showsearch, other than the >> following ;-) >> >> ... > > "showsearch" has nothing to do with iteration or recursion. "showsearch" > is rel

Re: servfail only for a zone

2015-07-13 Thread John Miller
ge between the two nameservers within an hour, the second will stop working. This is just a guess, but network communication/failed zone transfer seems the most likely culprit for something like this (entire zone returns SERVFAIL). John -- John Miller Systems Engineer Brandeis University johnm..

Re: servfail only for a zone

2015-07-13 Thread John Miller
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Lucio Crusca wrote: > > You have been persuasive enough, I'm definitely going to raise the expire > value, but now the question is: are the SERVFAIL replies a consequence of > the low expire value? > It doesn't help your cause _at_all_. There could be a few reas

Re: stumped on sub domain addition

2015-07-23 Thread John Miller
Hi Donovan, Your zone file(s) as well as your named.conf config would be best here. We really need more information from you than a single fqdn. John -- John Miller Systems Engineer Brandeis University johnm...@brandeis.edu On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 12:40 PM, lists - euca wrote: > He

Re: stumped on sub domain addition

2015-07-23 Thread John Miller
On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 2:22 PM, lists - euca wrote: > Here is the file that smbind created (note that I have been making some > changes): > $TTL 21600 > @ IN SOA ns10.euca.us. hostmaster.euca.us. ( > 2015072342 ; Serial > 108

Re: tsig indicates error

2015-07-24 Thread John Miller
ake sure your master doesn't require it and that your slave doesn't try to use it for its AXFRs. John -- John Miller Systems Engineer Brandeis University johnm...@brandeis.edu ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-use

Re: tsig indicates error

2015-07-24 Thread John Miller
On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 11:52 AM, Mark Elkins wrote: > On Fri, 2015-07-24 at 15:44 +, Managed Pvt nets wrote: > > > > > > On 24/07/2015 5:05:24 PM, "Alan Clegg" wrote: > > > > > Possible problems: > > >Mismatched keys. > > >Mismatched key names. > > >Mismatched clocks. > > > > Mo

Re: separation of authoritative and recursive functions on internal networks

2015-08-10 Thread John Miller
interesting we did is that our recursive servers don't depend exclusively on our local authoritative servers. In a pinch (last master in the stub zone), they'll go out to our cloud DNS servers and pull/follow delegation from there. So the dependence of recursive on authoritative, due

Re: A tale of two nameservers - resolution problems

2015-09-01 Thread John Miller
If you check pcap, logs, etc., is the server's following delegation for 0.centos.pool.ntp.org? Where do outbound packets stop? John On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 9:09 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I have one nameserver running bind 9.8.2 and a new one running 9.9.4. > > Both can resolve www.ietf.org >

Re: A tale of two nameservers - resolution problems

2015-09-01 Thread John Miller
On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 9:31 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > On 09/01/2015 09:20 AM, John Miller wrote: >> >> If you check pcap, logs, etc., is the server's following delegation >> for 0.centos.pool.ntp.org? Where do outbound packets stop? > > > I d

Re: Installing bind is not very clear for me

2015-09-04 Thread John Miller
On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 3:29 PM, wrote: >> One Firewall should be enough. >> So, what you consider this firewall should do ? >> In my opinion: >> Block requests coming from a blacklist (Who will generate this list ?) >> Block denial of service requests. It needs to measure the requests rate >> to

Re: Speeding up DNS change propagation

2015-09-18 Thread John Miller
On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 2:35 PM, Danny Sinang wrote: > Hi, > > Our vendor is changing their FTP server's IP address tomorrow. > > 1. How can I tell how long their DNS change will propagate to us ? Whatever TTL you have cached when the vendor makes the switch is how long it'll take for your cachin

Re: Speeding up DNS change propagation

2015-09-18 Thread John Miller
ing the cache > or restarting BIND, won't BIND find an old cache of "ftp.example.com" in the > ".com" top level DNS server ? > > Regards, > Danny > > On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 2:51 PM, John Miller wrote: >> >> On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 2:35

Re: RPZ - override TXT records

2015-10-08 Thread John Miller
oad-balanced sites which don't > have fixed IP address. > > Any hint's what I am doing wrong? > > Many thanks, > Wolfgang > > ___ > Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to > unsubscribe

Re: Why two lookups for a CNAME?

2015-10-22 Thread John Miller
google.com. > > You'll see additional queries like this if you look up servers hosted by > the Akamai CDN, because the CNAME points from the original domain to one > of Akamai's domains. Hi Barry, I just did a double-check (stock RHEL 6 BIND, 9.8.2), and BIND indeed does do the

Re: Mitigation of server's load by queries for non-existing domains

2016-01-13 Thread John Miller
On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 8:35 AM, Tomas Hozza wrote: > On 12.01.2016 18:16, Tony Finch wrote: >> Tomas Hozza wrote: >>> >>> Recently I was trying to find a mechanism in BIND that could prevent the >>> server from processing a recursive query for non-existing domains. >> >> Have a look at https://w

Re: What is the use of having a chroot path during installation of Bind

2016-01-14 Thread John Miller
Thanks for the advice, Mike. We chrooted our install because it was "best practice" security-wise, but from an administration standpoint, it's been a bit of a headache: for example, you have to keep straight what goes in /etc and /var/named/chroot/etc, you end up setting a $BIND_CHROOT environment

Re: What is the use of having a chroot path during installation of Bind

2016-01-14 Thread John Miller
On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 4:01 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 14.01.2016 um 21:48 schrieb John Miller: >> >> Thanks for the advice, Mike. We chrooted our install because it was >> "best practice" security-wise, but from an administration standpoint, >>

Tuning for lots of SERVFAIL responses

2016-02-18 Thread John Miller
A couple of weeks ago, we experienced an outage on our external Internet links. Ideally, this shouldn't affect queries for internal resources - we expect those queries to continue to be answered. That being said, we saw a bunch of messages in our logs such as: client 192.168.1.2#56075: no more r

Re: Tuning for lots of SERVFAIL responses

2016-02-18 Thread John Miller
Thanks for the reply, Tony. With the recent glibc bug, I figured most folks would be off putting out those fires! On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 3:04 PM, Tony Finch wrote: > John Miller wrote: > >> A couple of weeks ago, we experienced an outage on our external >> Internet lin

Re: Tuning for lots of SERVFAIL responses

2016-02-18 Thread John Miller
On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 5:06 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > For some reason people are afraid to slave internal zones. Back > when I was working for CSIRO I used to slave all the internal zones > for all of the sites the division had. Each site administered its > own zones but all sites slaved all of

Re: Tuning for lots of SERVFAIL responses

2016-02-18 Thread John Miller
>> I was going to respond with the same advice -- >> slave your internal zones -- but then I somehow convinced myself that "recurs >> ive-clients" was merely the quota of concurrent RD=1 queries that named would >> handle, thus slaving wouldn't help in a network-outage situation, since name >> d w

Re: A Zone Transfer Question

2016-02-19 Thread John Miller
On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 11:45 AM, David Li wrote: > This is my first time to try master slave configuration. Here is a > brief description: > > I have two Centos 7.1 VMs - each is configured for a zone. VM1 is the > master for zone1 and slave for zone2. VM2 is master for zone2 and >

Re: A Zone Transfer Question

2016-02-19 Thread John Miller
Hi David, Something I'm not seeing in your config is an options {} block that lays out your defaults for allow-transfer, allow-notify, also-notify, etc. Those are important things to know when it comes to troubleshooting zone transfer issues. Unless you've got a specific reason for not doing so,

Re: A Zone Transfer Question

2016-02-19 Thread John Miller
0.4.1/24; >127.0.0.1; > }; > > }; > > For VM2 named.conf > > options { > > directory "/var/named"; > allow-query { >10.4.3/24; >127.0.0.1; > }; > > }; > > On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 12:33 PM, John Mil

Re: A Zone Transfer Question

2016-02-19 Thread John Miller
On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 9:26 PM, Barry Margolin wrote: > In article , > John Miller wrote: > >> And if you actually want people to use your zone or you want NOTIFY >> working, two NS records (and possibly glue) are really a must. > > He mentioned that these are intern

Re: Multiple A records and reverse DNS

2016-03-19 Thread John Miller
g > https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users -- John Miller Systems Engineer Brandeis University johnm...@brandeis.edu (781) 736-4619 ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list

Re: Recursive bind becomes unresponsive with high load

2016-03-31 Thread John Miller
On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 2:00 PM, Michael Brunnbauer wrote: > > hi all, > > On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 07:32:21PM +0200, Michael Brunnbauer wrote: >> Is is possible that is this connected to rndc stats? I will stop doing >> rndc stats for a while to test (it currently runs every minute). > > Not doing

Re: statistics-channels not serving rdtype records

2016-04-07 Thread John Miller
On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 3:42 PM, Ben Wilson wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not sure what is different on a new server I'm setting up, but when > querying the port configured for statistics-channels, no rdtype records are > included. > > resstat, socket, task, etc are all there, but not the number of queries.

Re: Adding CNAME for the root domain issue

2016-04-27 Thread John Miller
If your domain is ourweddingaccount.com, and you're looking to have the apex record ourweddingaccount.com.CNAME some.other.domain. but still host other records in the ourweddingaccount.com zone, you can't. That's not how CNAME records work. A CNAME record is an alias for a particular _l

Re: Adding CNAME for the root domain issue

2016-04-27 Thread John Miller
> But this is getting way off topic for BIND-users, and should probably be > moved to dns-operati...@dns-oarc.net if we want to continue. Much obliged! John ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this lis

Re: Intermittent Issues Resolving Microsoft Hostnames

2016-05-04 Thread John Miller
> > dig mail.protection.outlook.com. ns > @ns1-proddns.glbdns.o365filtering.com. +noedns > ;; ANSWER SECTION: > mail.protection.outlook.com. 10 IN NS > ns1-proddns.glbdns.o365filtering.com. > mail.protection.outlook.com. 10 IN NS > ns2-proddns.glbdns.o365filtering.com. > > > > Note the short TTL

Re: Intermittent Issues Resolving Microsoft Hostnames

2016-05-04 Thread John Miller
On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 3:23 PM, Rob Heilman wrote: > Could it be that the “adberr:2” logs entries are indicating that it > periodically can’t find the name servers? > > -Rob Heilman > > > > # dig zulily-com.mail.protection.outlook.com. > @ns1-prodeodns.glbdns.o365filtering.com. > > dig: couldn't

Re: Intermittent Issues Resolving Microsoft Hostnames

2016-05-04 Thread John Miller
On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 3:57 PM, John Miller wrote: > On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 3:23 PM, Rob Heilman wrote: >> Could it be that the “adberr:2” logs entries are indicating that it >> periodically can’t find the name servers? >> >> -Rob Heilman >> >> >> &g

Re: Intermittent Issues Resolving Microsoft Hostnames

2016-05-04 Thread John Miller
Ok--I see what's up now! This has been one of the stranger DNS setups I've ever seen: different NS records pointing to overlapping sets of IP addresses, EDNS disabled, really short TTLs on both NS and A records. Even though you're not querying at the name listed in the NS records, it's usually th

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