Automatic . NS queries from BIND

2015-06-15 Thread Gaurav Kansal
Dear Team, My caching DNS server is generating log of . NS queries to ROOT Servers. I have a hint file in my bind configuration and the same is up-to date. The same behavior is occurring in multiple versions of BIND (tested on 9.7, 9.9 and on 9.10). It must be for some purpose (may be

Re: Automatic . NS queries from BIND

2015-06-15 Thread Leonard Mills
The hints hopefully point eventually to an authoritative server for ".". Whatever that authoritative server says overrides any hints, just like any other zone's authoritative NS.  It does not matter how obsolete a delegation is, so long as  some authoritative NS replies, the data from the delega

Re: Automatic . NS queries from BIND

2015-06-15 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 5:56 AM, Gaurav Kansal wrote: > Dear Team, > > > > My caching DNS server is generating log of . NS queries to ROOT Servers. > > I have a hint file in my bind configuration and the same is up-to date. > > > > The same behavior is occurring in multiple versions of BIND (test

Re: Automatic . NS queries from BIND

2015-06-15 Thread Warren Kumari
On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote: > On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 5:56 AM, Gaurav Kansal wrote: >> >> Dear Team, >> >> >> >> My caching DNS server is generating log of . NS queries to ROOT Servers. >> >> I have a hint file in my bind configuration and the same is up-to date. >> >> >

RE: Automatic . NS queries from BIND

2015-06-15 Thread Darcy Kevin (FCA)
). - Kevin From: bind-users-boun...@lists.isc.org [mailto:bind-users-boun...@lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of Leonard Mills Sent: Monday, June 15, 2015 3:05 PM To: Gaurav Kansal; bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: Re: Automatic . NS queries from BIND The hints

Re: Automatic . NS queries from BIND

2015-06-15 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 1:29 PM, Darcy Kevin (FCA) wrote: > Right, we know how hints files are used, but I think you guys may be > missing the underlying conundrum: why is named querying the NS records of > the root zone more often than the TTL of that RRset? See that there is a > “NS? .” query

Re: Automatic . NS queries from BIND

2015-06-17 Thread Cathy Almond
On 16/06/2015 01:51, Kevin Oberman wrote: > On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 1:29 PM, Darcy Kevin (FCA) > mailto:kevin.da...@fcagroup.com>> wrote: > > Right, we know how hints files are used, but I think you guys may be > missing the underlying conundrum: why is named querying the NS > records

RE: Automatic . NS queries from BIND

2015-06-17 Thread Gaurav Kansal
To: bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: RE: Automatic . NS queries from BIND Right, we know how hints files are used, but I think you guys may be missing the underlying conundrum: why is named querying the NS records of the root zone more often than the TTL of that RRset? See that there is a “NS

RE: Automatic . NS queries from BIND

2015-06-17 Thread Gaurav Kansal
015 1:52 PM To: bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: Re: Automatic . NS queries from BIND On 16/06/2015 01:51, Kevin Oberman wrote: > On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 1:29 PM, Darcy Kevin (FCA) > < <mailto:kevin.da...@fcagroup.com%20%3cmailto:kevin.da...@fcagroup.com> kevin.da...@fcagroup.

Re: Automatic . NS queries from BIND

2015-06-17 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On 17/06/15 12:27, Gaurav Kansal wrote: Hi Gaurav, > At most, what I can make sure is my hint file is up-to-dated with this cross > check. You're better off not providing a hints file at all. BIND ships with a built-in list of hints, and it will use this if you don't provide a hints file. BIND'

Re: Automatic . NS queries from BIND

2015-06-17 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 17/06/15 12:27, Gaurav Kansal wrote: At most, what I can make sure is my hint file is up-to-dated with this cross check. On 17.06.15 14:26, Anand Buddhdev wrote: You're better off not providing a hints file at all. BIND ships with a built-in list of hints, and it will use this if you don't

Re: Automatic . NS queries from BIND

2015-06-17 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On 17/06/15 15:00, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: Hi Matus, > well, the hard-coded hints file changes whenever new BIND release gets out, > while the bungled hints file may be updated by packagers or manually. > > I'd say that the bundled hints file is likely to be newer than the > hard-coded one

Re: Automatic . NS queries from BIND

2015-06-17 Thread gaurav . kansal
In case, i have my hint file in bind configuration and it also have its hard-coded one, who will get the priority. Means which file will be used by bind for getting responses from root ? Sent by kansal's device. On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 7:17 AM -0700, "Anand Buddhdev" wrote: On

Re: Automatic . NS queries from BIND

2015-06-17 Thread Barry Margolin
In article , Gaurav Kansal wrote: > Now suppose, I am giving a hint file (which has customized entry, means > having different IPs then the actual) and the servers which are defined in > that file are also giving customize information. > > So how come checking with Root Servers help BIND in ma

Re: Automatic . NS queries from BIND

2015-06-17 Thread Barry Margolin
In article , gaurav.kan...@nic.in wrote: > In case, i have my hint file in bind configuration and it also have its > hard-coded one, who will get the priority. > > > Means which file will be used by bind for getting responses from root ? The hints file takes precedence over the hard-coded one

Re: Automatic . NS queries from BIND

2015-06-17 Thread Warren Kumari
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Anand Buddhdev wrote: > On 17/06/15 15:00, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > Hi Matus, > >> well, the hard-coded hints file changes whenever new BIND release gets out, >> while the bungled hints file may be updated by packagers or manually. >> >> I'd say that the b