RE: Re[8]: [Declude.JunkMail] DNS Changes
I will admit, Bind is not the easiest thing to setup if you are a new admin. The first time I tried to setup bind it took me about 3 hours, but to me the benefits outweigh commercial packages. Including reading on-line documentation and eliminating one error at a time, making sure it was secure. But now that I have the minimal settings it is a 5 minute setup. I have passed these instructions on to many other not so experienced admins. These instructions work on any platform bind will run on. Just change the paths to suit the OS. Kevin Bilbee -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sanford Whiteman Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 11:48 AM To: Kevin Bilbee Subject: Re[8]: [Declude.JunkMail] DNS Changes I have a suggestion since DNS is so critical to Declude. A secure recursive bind implementation can be setup in less than 5 minutes. Kevin, thank you very much for proving the absurd ease with which this one (of many) DNS servers can be set up for this purpose, and to everybody else who voiced their agreement. I expect the voices of the qualified sysadmins here are unified. --Sandy Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SpamAssassin plugs into Declude! http://www.imprimia.com/products/software/freeutils/SPAMC32/download/release / Defuse Dictionary Attacks: Turn Exchange or IMail mailboxes into IMail Aliases! http://www.imprimia.com/products/software/freeutils/exchange2aliases/downloa d/release/ http://www.imprimia.com/products/software/freeutils/ldap2aliases/download/re lease/ --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail. The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com. --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail. The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
RE: Re[8]: [Declude.JunkMail] DNS Changes
Not to be picky but run this query instead nslookup -q=mx gmail.com. 1.2.3.4 If you do not include the dot it may append the default domain for the windows box to the query. If there is no default domain specified then all is good. But the extra do will always work. Kevin Bilbee -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sanford Whiteman Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 1:35 PM To: Linda Pagillo Subject: Re[8]: [Declude.JunkMail] DNS Changes Yeah, that would surprise me utterly, since they wouldn't be able to do _anything else_ with said servers that would lead them to believe they were suitable for Declude's use. I worked for an ISP for a long time before joining Declude. DNS servers are NOT useless without the recursive DNS option turned on. I don't know where you're getting your information, but it is incorrect. What I said was (it's right there above, please reread) there is nothing else they could do with said servers _that would lead them to believe they were suitable for Declude's use_. That is obvious. There is no reason anyone should think that authoritative-only nameservers are their DNS servers. Such servers could not be the servers they use to surf the web, for example. The only reason they would enter such a server into the Declude config is because they have not been sufficiently briefed on the characteristics of the server that is suitable for Declude vs. one that may not be used. The test can you run 'nslookup -q=mx gmail.com 1.2.3.4' is enough to tell people that the 1.2.3.4 is or isn't valid. --Sandy Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SpamAssassin plugs into Declude! http://www.imprimia.com/products/software/freeutils/SPAMC32/download/release / Defuse Dictionary Attacks: Turn Exchange or IMail mailboxes into IMail Aliases! http://www.imprimia.com/products/software/freeutils/exchange2aliases/downloa d/release/ http://www.imprimia.com/products/software/freeutils/ldap2aliases/download/re lease/ --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail. The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com. --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail. The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
RE: Re[8]: [Declude.JunkMail] DNS Changes
Thanks, K. ipconfig from a mailserver that can surf the net is another duh quickie... . --Sandy --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail. The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
