Re: NSEC3 records not available through a BIND resolver <= 9.5?

2010-03-17 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <20100317172506.gb21...@isc.org>, Evan Hunt writes: > > BIND <=9.5 doesn't know that it's supposed to pass them in a NXDOMAIN > > response. > > Correct, and whoops. We should have backported at least that much > knowledge of NSEC3. Not really. You need a NSEC3 aware path between the

Re: threading and linux (2.6.

2010-03-17 Thread Paul Wouters
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010, Evan Hunt wrote: No, not at all. Threaded works fine--I use it myself. It's just a little touchy about file permissions. On linux, I'm given to understand, a multi-threaded application can't relinquish its root privileges and then get them back later if it needs to open a

Re: threading and linux (2.6.

2010-03-17 Thread Evan Hunt
> [Jack Tavares] So, for bind 9.6.x and 9.7.0 is the recommendation to run > nonthreaded? No, not at all. Threaded works fine--I use it myself. It's just a little touchy about file permissions. On linux, I'm given to understand, a multi-threaded application can't relinquish its root privileges

Re: Problem resolving domains with valid GLUE records but misconfigured NS records

2010-03-17 Thread Kevin Darcy
Well, the zone is publishing NS records that all return REFUSED when I query them, so from my point of view the whole domain is broken. The *best* approach here is to contact the domain admin and get them to fix it. In the absence of that, how to circumvent it? ns1.ecb.int apparently doesn't

RE: threading and linux (2.6.

2010-03-17 Thread Jack Tavares
You said: >On most operating systems, the default is threaded. >On linux, the default is unthreaded, for historical reasons having t >do with an odd interaction between linux threads and linux process >privileges. I expect we'll correct this fairly soon; it's on the >to-do list for 9.7.1. [Jack

Re: NSEC3 records not available through a BIND resolver <= 9.5?

2010-03-17 Thread Evan Hunt
> BIND <=9.5 doesn't know that it's supposed to pass them in a NXDOMAIN > response. Correct, and whoops. We should have backported at least that much knowledge of NSEC3. > That said, I thought it would be possible to explicitely ask for TYPE50. > But that seems not to work, either: IIRC, RFC 51

Re: threading and linux (2.6.

2010-03-17 Thread Evan Hunt
On 16.03.10 15:18, Jack Tavares wrote: > What is the default build on linux (2.6) with regard to threads. > If I don't explicitly enable or disable threads, does named > run threaded or unthreaded? On most operating systems, the default is threaded. On linux, the default is unthreaded, for histor

Re: NSEC3 records not available through a BIND resolver <= 9.5?

2010-03-17 Thread Hauke Lampe
Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > I cannot get the NSEC3 records through a BIND resolver if it is > version <= 9.5: > > % dig +dnssec jhfgTCFGD564564.org > > If BIND >= 9.6, it works (or with Unbound). Yes, NSEC3 support was > added in 9.6 but, for older BINDs, TYPE50 (NSEC3) shoul

NSEC3 records not available through a BIND resolver <= 9.5?

2010-03-17 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
I cannot get the NSEC3 records through a BIND resolver if it is version <= 9.5: % dig +dnssec jhfgTCFGD564564.org ; <<>> DiG 9.5.1-P3 <<>> +dnssec @dnssec.generic-nic.net jhfgTCFGD564564.org ; (2 servers found) ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode:

Re: Multiple masters in slave zone

2010-03-17 Thread Barry Margolin
In article , Fabian Gut wrote: > Hello > > How does BIND handle multiple masters in a slave zone definition? I know > that if one master doesn't answer, a second one is checked for new zone > data, but does BIND periodically check ALL master servers for new data? It checks them all. If any

Multiple masters in slave zone

2010-03-17 Thread Fabian Gut
Hello How does BIND handle multiple masters in a slave zone definition? I know that if one master doesn't answer, a second one is checked for new zone data, but does BIND periodically check ALL master servers for new data? Best regards Fabian Gut -- Fabian Gut Trainee open systems ag raeffe

Re: threading and linux (2.6.

2010-03-17 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 16.03.10 15:18, Jack Tavares wrote: > What is the default build on linux (2.6) with regard to threads. > If I don't explicitly enable or disable threads, does named > run threaded or unthreaded? from the manpage for named(8): -n #cpus Create #cpus worker threads to take advan

Re: Dealing with "unexpected RCODE (SERVFAIL)"

2010-03-17 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> In message <20100316131539.ga10...@fantomas.sk>, Matus UHLAR - fantomas > writes: > > It's apparently because DNS was designed to provide records that exist, > > not those that do not. On 17.03.10 09:22, Mark Andrews wrote: > Actually it's designed to provide records that exist *and* to tell yo