Re: [dns-operations] Advisory — D-root is changing its IPv4 address on the 3rd of January.

2012-12-14 Thread Yasuhiro Orange Morishita / 森下泰宏
Hello, Jason-san, This is Yasuhiro Orange Morishita at JPRS. Thank you for your advance notice. We will make an announcement the information for Japanese Internet community. And if you also publish the information at D-root webpage , I would appreciate. -- Yasuhiro

[dns-operations] underline in TXT's host

2012-12-14 Thread Feng He
Hello, does the TXT record allow a underline in its hostname? I see google does. $ idig _spf.google.com txt _spf.google.com.300 IN TXT "v=spf1 include:_netblocks.google.com include:_netblocks6.google.com ?all" Thanks. ___ dns-o

Re: [dns-operations] underline in TXT's host

2012-12-14 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 04:37:05PM +0800, Feng He wrote a message of 17 lines which said: > does the TXT record allow a underline in its hostname? 1) What is on the left side is not always a host name, far from it (if you have learned in a book that DNS is here to "map host names to IP addres

Re: [dns-operations] underline in TXT's host

2012-12-14 Thread Feng He
于 2012-12-14 16:44, Stephane Bortzmeyer 写道: 1) What is on the left side is not always a host name, far from it (if you have learned in a book that DNS is here to "map host names to IP addresses", burn the book immediately, it was written by someone who does not know the DNS). 2) Domain names can

Re: [dns-operations] underline in TXT's host

2012-12-14 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 04:50:48PM +0800, Feng He wrote a message of 23 lines which said: > From RFC 952 It's old, it was not even for the DNS! As I said, read the RFCs about the DNS (RFC 1035, section 2.3.1 and RFC 2181, section 11). And pay attention to the difference between host names an

Re: [dns-operations] underline in TXT's host

2012-12-14 Thread Florian Streibelt
Hi Stephane, Am Fr, 14.12.12 um 09:44:41 Uhr schrieb Stephane Bortzmeyer : > 1) What is on the left side is not always a host name, far from it (if > you have learned in a book that DNS is here to "map host names to IP > addresses", burn the book immediately, it was written by someone who > doe

Re: [dns-operations] underline in TXT's host

2012-12-14 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 01:36:05PM +0100, Florian Streibelt wrote a message of 14 lines which said: > May I quote you wherever possible, especially at some special > university Professor who teaches such nonsense? OK, if you provide the gasoline, I will bring the matches :-)

Re: [dns-operations] underline in TXT's host

2012-12-14 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 01:36:05PM +0100, Florian Streibelt wrote: > > May I quote you wherever possible, especially at some special university > Professor who teaches such¹ nonsense? > If Stephane says no, I will cheerfully write something that says the same thing so you may quote it liberally

[dns-operations] what nameserver software have you been using?

2012-12-14 Thread Feng He
Hello, It seems there are many DNS gurus here. I am just curious what nameservers software have you been using? For mime BIND is always my choice, running BIND 9.7 on debian 6 OS. This is my DNS hosting info: http://www.dailychanges.com/cloudwebdns.com/ Thanks for any share.

Re: [dns-operations] what nameserver software have you been using?

2012-12-14 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> For mime BIND is always my choice, running BIND 9.7 on debian 6 OS. Time to upgrade then: 9.7 is EOL since a few days ... ;-) [1] > I am just curious what nameservers software have you been using? I think you'll find people here use all sorts of nameserver brands. ISC BIND is one of them, but

[dns-operations] Call for Participation -- ICANN DNSSEC Workshop 10 April 2013

2012-12-14 Thread Julie Hedlund
Call for Participation -- ICANN DNSSEC Workshop 10 April 2013 The DNSSEC Deployment Initiative, in cooperation with the ICANN Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC), is planning a DNSSEC Workshop at the ICANN meeting in Beijing, China on 10 April 2013. The DNSSEC Workshop has been a

Re: [dns-operations] what nameserver software have you been using?

2012-12-14 Thread Mike Hoskins (michoski)
-Original Message- From: Feng He Date: Friday, December 14, 2012 10:17 AM To: "dns-operations@lists.dns-oarc.net" Subject: [dns-operations] what nameserver software have you been using? >It seems there are many DNS gurus here. >I am just curious what nameservers software have you been u

[dns-operations] BIND 9.7 was Re: what nameserver software have you been using?

2012-12-14 Thread Edward Lewis
On Dec 14, 2012, at 10:23, Jan-Piet Mens wrote: > Time to upgrade then: 9.7 is EOL since a few days ... ;-) [1] I bet that the omission is just an oversight. As far as I know 9.7 is still alive and kicking. (And in one case I'm concerned with, works better than 9.9!) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Re: [dns-operations] BIND 9.7 was Re: what nameserver software have you been using?

2012-12-14 Thread Evan Hunt
> I bet that the omission is just an oversight. As far as I know 9.7 is > still alive and kicking. No, 9.7 has reached the end of its development life, we're not adding any further bug fixes to it, 9.7.7 was the end of the line. > (And in one case I'm concerned with, works better than 9.9!) I'd

Re: [dns-operations] Advisory — D-root is changing its IPv4 address on the 3rd of January.

2012-12-14 Thread Sebastian Castro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 14/12/12 11:54, Jason Castonguay wrote: Hi Jason, > Advisory — D-root is changing its IPv4 address on the 3rd of > January. > > > This is advance notice that there is a scheduled change to the > IPv4 address for one of the authorities listed for

Re: [dns-operations] Advisory — D-root is changing its IPv4 address on the 3rd of January.

2012-12-14 Thread bert hubert
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 05:54:41PM -0500, Jason Castonguay wrote: > We encourage operators of DNS infrastructure to update any references > to the old IP address, and replace it with the new address. In > particular, many DNS resolvers have a DNS root “hints” file. This > should be updated with the

Re: [dns-operations] underline in TXT's host

2012-12-14 Thread Fred Morris
On Fri, 14 Dec 2012, Feng He wrote: > does the TXT record allow a underline in its hostname? There is some conflation there. A "hostname" is a particular kind of label, historically chosen from a limited character set to avoid untoward interactions with runtime environments. For example, what migh

[dns-operations] note for the peanut gallery Re: underline in TXT's host

2012-12-14 Thread Fred Morris
On Fri, 14 Dec 2012, Fred Morris wrote: > dig `rm -rf *`.m3047.net Although I assume that the subscribers to this list are skilled enough practitioners to realize (or at least suspect) dangers lurk here, this list is archived. So therefore let me state that I suggest that the unwary reader SHOU

Re: [dns-operations] Advisory — D-root is changing its IPv4 address on the 3rd of January.

2012-12-14 Thread Keith Mitchell
Jason, On 12/14/2012 01:01 PM, Sebastian Castro wrote: > On 14/12/12 11:54, Jason Castonguay wrote: >> Advisory — D-root is changing its IPv4 address on the 3rd of >> January. The new IPv4 address for this authority is 199.7.91.13 > > Also, do you have plans to capture traffic on a regular basi

Re: [dns-operations] underline in TXT's host

2012-12-14 Thread WBrown
Fred wrote on 12/14/2012 01:28:51 PM: > Khazakhstan issued domain names starting with a dash for a limited period > of time... DAMHIK! Maybe they were just typos. https://twitter.com/DNS_BORAT/status/267843261425664000 Confidentiality Notice: This electronic message and any attachments may c

Re: [dns-operations] underline in TXT's host

2012-12-14 Thread Carlos M. Martinez
Back in the day we all did weird things. I used to sysadmin the boxes (yeah, all two of them :-) ) which served .com.uy and we allowed domain names with underscores, like my_domain.com.uy Actually there were quite a few of them and when we stopped allowing that we had to weather a lot of complaint

Re: [dns-operations] Advisory — D-root is changing its IPv4 address on the 3rd of January.

2012-12-14 Thread Jason Castonguay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/14/12 13:01, Sebastian Castro wrote: > On 14/12/12 11:54, Jason Castonguay wrote: > > Hi Jason, > >> Advisory — D-root is changing its IPv4 address on the 3rd of >> January. > > >> This is advance notice that there is a scheduled change to t

Re: [dns-operations] underline in TXT's host

2012-12-14 Thread Phil Pennock
On 2012-12-14 at 08:40 -0500, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > If Stephane says no, I will cheerfully write something that says the > same thing so you may quote it liberally. But surely it won't make > any difference. You can beat people about the head with RFC 2181, but > they do not seem afterwards mo