On Thu, 2017-09-21 at 11:58 +0100, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-09-20 at 19:39 -0500, Chris wrote:
> > 
> > It was installed by default when upgrading from 14.04LTS to
> > 16.04LTS
> > 
> Then it may be best to just leave it there.
> 
> > 
> > I have stopped Network Manager. I've not disabled or removed it yet
> > as I'm watching to see how named does the queries now.
> > 
> I didn't suggest removing it - just following the advice from others
> to
> change its configuration so it doesn't try to start dnsmasq or bind:
> leave starting the daemons that should always be running to systemd.
My mistake, I must have read somewhere yesterday about disabling or
removing it. 

> 
> Your named configuration looks fine to me. About the only extra items
> you might want in options are:
> 
>         dnssec-enable yes;
>         dnssec-validation auto;
>         dnssec-lookaside auto;
> 
> In the ISC[*] website it says:
> - If you put “dnssec-validation auto” in named.conf, named will read
>   the root key from bind.keys the first time it executes.
> - If you put “dnssec-lookaside auto” in named.conf, named will read
> the
>   DLV key from bind.keys the first time it executes.
> - If you don’t have anything in named.conf and there is no bind.keys
>   file, named will use the compiled in keys.
> 
> so having these set as ISC suggests should mean that bind will
> automatically pick up changes to bind keys. They don't change very
> often but there are changes from time to time.
> 
> [*] Internet Systems Consortium: https://www.isc.org/ - a non-profit
> that supports the Internet infrastructure. It is the source for
> downloading Root Trust Anchors, aka bind-keys.
> 
Thanks for the above Martin. I'm still waiting for a query to isipp to
happen since I stopped network manager. Seems like when you're waiting
for something it never happens. 
> Martin
> 
Chris

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