Re: named.conf: query-source address

2008-07-19 Thread Doug Barton
jonathan michaels wrote: Doug, et al, i for one appreciate this "over-engieered" responce because it has given me (and those like me) a chance to get answers to questions that we have asked for over a year in my case, about this whole bind setup issue. I have no idea what you mean by "questio

Re: named.conf: query-source address

2008-07-17 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Mark Andrews wrote: > To: Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > query-source is only ever used by recursive or stub resolvers -- > > instances of named that will go out and make queries on the net on your=20 > > behalf. Authoritative servers really don't need it. > >

Re: named.conf: query-source address

2008-07-17 Thread Mark Andrews
> query-source is only ever used by recursive or stub resolvers -- > instances of named that will go out and make queries on the net on your=20 > behalf. Authoritative servers really don't need it. Actually authoritative servers make queries to work out where to send notify messa

Re: named.conf: query-source address

2008-07-17 Thread Eugene Grosbein
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 09:06:33PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: > >Isn't this common to have multiple aliases at an interface? > >Sometimes only one of them should be used for all DNS traffic. > > About the only common reason to set up multiple aliases on an > interface is when you're doing somet

Re: named.conf: query-source address

2008-07-17 Thread jonathan michaels
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 10:11:03PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > The config parms we use are necessary. > > That's all you had to say. :) I see a lot of people attempt to > over-engineer stuff with named that leads to complications later. If > you are doing things fo

Re: named.conf: query-source address

2008-07-16 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jul 16, 2008, at 8:51 PM, Eugene Grosbein wrote: On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 06:34:38PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: The 'query-source' options don't have to be specified: the system will just choose some appropriate address according to the state of the

Re: named.conf: query-source address

2008-07-16 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On July 16, 2008 9:06:33 PM -0700 Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Jul 16, 2008, at 8:51 PM, Eugene Grosbein wrote: On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 06:34:38PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: The 'query-source' options don't have to be specified: the system will just choose some appropriate ad

Re: named.conf: query-source address

2008-07-16 Thread Doug Barton
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: The config parms we use are necessary. That's all you had to say. :) I see a lot of people attempt to over-engineer stuff with named that leads to complications later. If you are doing things for a good reason, keep doing them. Doug -- This .signature sanitized

Re: named.conf: query-source address

2008-07-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 09:06:33PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Jul 16, 2008, at 8:51 PM, Eugene Grosbein wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 06:34:38PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: >>> The 'query-source' options don't have to be specified: the system >>> will just choose some appropriate address

Re: named.conf: query-source address

2008-07-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jul 16, 2008, at 8:51 PM, Eugene Grosbein wrote: On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 06:34:38PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: The 'query-source' options don't have to be specified: the system will just choose some appropriate address according to the state of the routing table. 'query-source' to set the

Re: named.conf: query-source address

2008-07-16 Thread Eugene Grosbein
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 06:34:38PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > The 'query-source' options don't have to be specified: the system > will just choose some appropriate address according to the state of > the routing table. 'query-source' to set the source /IP/ is really > only useful in some spec

Re: named.conf: query-source address

2008-07-16 Thread Mark Andrews
> We do such on our authoritative nameservers. The options we use: > > listen-on { 127.0.0.1; 72.20.106.4; }; > query-source address 72.20.106.4; > transfer-source 72.20.106.4; > notify-source 72.20.106.4; > interface-interval 0; > use-alt-transfer

Re: named.conf: query-source address

2008-07-16 Thread Doug Barton
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 12:20:42AM +0800, Eugene Grosbein wrote: I fully understand and second efforts on educating people how to configure BIND to be stong to attacks and keep them from using "query-source address" with "port" option but how about binding named to particu

Re: named.conf: query-source address

2008-07-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 02:23:28PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 12:20:42AM +0800, Eugene Grosbein wrote: >>> I fully understand and second efforts on educating people >>> how to configure BIND to be stong to attacks and keep them from using >>> "quer

Re: named.conf: query-source address

2008-07-16 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 12:20:42AM +0800, Eugene Grosbein wrote: I fully understand and second efforts on educating people how to configure BIND to be stong to attacks and keep them from using "query-source address" with "port" option but how about bi

Re: named.conf: query-source address

2008-07-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 12:20:42AM +0800, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > I fully understand and second efforts on educating people > how to configure BIND to be stong to attacks and keep them from using > "query-source address" with "port" option but how about > binding named to particular IP address whe

Re: named.conf: query-source address

2008-07-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
Eugene Grosbein wrote: I fully understand and second efforts on educating people how to configure BIND to be stong to attacks and keep them from using "query-source address" with "port" option but how about binding named to particular IP address when host has many of them? Using "query-source ad