Re: config for views

2009-03-26 Thread dev_null
2009 19:36:54 -0700 Kevin Darcy > > }; > That's the general idea, yes, but "someip" can't be used literally > unless it's defined as an ACL somewhere else in the config, of course, > and "recursion no" in "options" means that *neither* of these views can > be used for your own clients

Re: config for views

2009-03-26 Thread Kevin Darcy
dev_n...@zoho.com wrote: Hello, I want to config a named for two networks, using the view. for example, neta is for internal users, netb is for any other users. I got the named.conf below, do you have any suggestion on it? thanks. options { directory "/usr/local/bind"; recursion no

config for views

2009-03-26 Thread dev_null
Hello, I want to config a named for two networks, using the view. for example, neta is for internal users, netb is for any other users. I got the named.conf below, do you have any suggestion on it? thanks. options { directory "/usr/local/bind"; recursion no; zone-statistics yes

Re: NOTIFY from masters when slave provides several views

2009-03-26 Thread Jonathan Petersson
Hi Terry, Each view has to be independently notified if an update takes place. /Jonathan On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 4:46 PM, wrote: >  This question is related to the prior "Internal and External view on same > slave server? - RESOLVED" thread, but seems to be a different situation in > which the

Re: Max. Number of char in a TXT Record

2009-03-26 Thread Vincent Rivellino
On Thu, March 26, 2009 19:19, Kevin Darcy wrote: >> 2) What is the maximum number of includes inside a SFP field? >> > I assume you mean SPF (Sender Policy Framework), the anti-SPAM(ming) > mechanism (?) > > I'm no SPF expert but in glancing at the documentation it looks like > there is no arbitrar

Re: Max. Number of char in a TXT Record

2009-03-26 Thread Leonard Mills
Darvin Denmian asked: > 2) What is the maximum number of includes inside a SFP field? It is RECOMMENDED that SPF library implementations limit the number of DNS operations performed during a lookup to ten, to cut down on the chances of a denial-of-service exercise using SPF and to short-circuit

Re: Root Server Simulation Communication Problem

2009-03-26 Thread Kevin Darcy
There's a certain threshold, let's say several thousand zones, or several 10s of thousands of resource records, where any organization probably wants to make a complete separation between DNS hosting and DNS resolution. At the same time, you'd probably want to put a load-balancer of some sort i

NOTIFY from masters when slave provides several views

2009-03-26 Thread terry+bindusers
This question is related to the prior "Internal and External view on same slave server? - RESOLVED" thread, but seems to be a different situation in which the previous answer doesn't apply. I have 3 nameservers, which we'll call ns1, ns2, and ns3. These servers are primarily slave servers for

Re: Max. Number of char in a TXT Record

2009-03-26 Thread Kevin Darcy
Darvin Denmian wrote: Hello, I have some questions: 1) Anybody know the maximum number of characters allowed in a TXT field? A simple question, but a complicated answer. You may have multiple "strings" in a single TXT record. Each "string" may be up to 255 characters in length, with a "le

Re: multi-named instance exist?

2009-03-26 Thread Doug Barton
Rich Goodson wrote: > If you're really looking to cover all bases, there's a little gotcha in > Solaris (even in 10) that will make this startup script fail if it's > invoked with sh (as most startup scripts that I've seen are). Yeah, I was trying to avoid "shell portability" concerns to try to av

RE: DNS forwarding not working properly?

2009-03-26 Thread ARMSTRONG, KENNETH
Aha! Thanks, checking the config showed that I had messed up my syntax at the recursion statement. I corrected that and was able to start bind, and now I can run nslookup on my XP clients to resolve other domains! Thanks to all for your help!! Kenny -Original Message- From: Jeremy C. Re

RE: DNS forwarding not working properly?

2009-03-26 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, ARMSTRONG, KENNETH wrote: > Thanks, I gave that a go and now when I run a query I get "No response > from server" when running nslookup. I tried restarting bind and now I > get the "rndc: connect failed: 127.0.0.1#953: connection refused" error. > I then tried running rnd

Max. Number of char in a TXT Record

2009-03-26 Thread Darvin Denmian
Hello, I have some questions: 1) Anybody know the maximum number of characters allowed in a TXT field? 2) What is the maximum number of includes inside a SFP field? Sorry for the bad english :( Thanks ! ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.i

RE: DNS forwarding not working properly?

2009-03-26 Thread ARMSTRONG, KENNETH
Thanks, I gave that a go and now when I run a query I get "No response from server" when running nslookup. I tried restarting bind and now I get the "rndc: connect failed: 127.0.0.1#953: connection refused" error. I then tried running rndc-confgen, and added the following to rndc.conf: key "r

Re: DNS forwarding not working properly?

2009-03-26 Thread Jonathan Petersson
You need to enable recursion in options. /Jonathan 2009/3/26 ARMSTRONG, KENNETH : > OK, I've been trying my hardest to figure this out. > > I have BIND9 installed and set up as a slave to one of our Domain > Controllers (so we can at least still get DNS if it were to go down). It > works fine for

Re: PTR for localhost

2009-03-26 Thread Chris Thompson
On Mar 26 2009, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 26.03.09 21:34, dev_n...@zoho.com wrote: In recent version of Bind-9.6, is it needed for reverse parsing config of localhost? for example, zone "0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA" { type master; file "local.rev"; }; I think it's not, but it

Re: FORMERR resolving AAAA/IN records

2009-03-26 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <20090326141903.1917917...@britaine.cis.anl.gov>, b19...@anl.gov writ es: > Oliver Henriot wrote: > > dnsserver% !! > dig auniarael.com @216.69.185.38 > > ; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> auniarael.com @216.69.185.38 > ; (1 server found) > ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch

DNS forwarding not working properly?

2009-03-26 Thread ARMSTRONG, KENNETH
OK, I've been trying my hardest to figure this out. I have BIND9 installed and set up as a slave to one of our Domain Controllers (so we can at least still get DNS if it were to go down). It works fine for transferring the zone file of our domain down, and from the server running BIND I can resolv

RE: Root Server Simulation Communication Problem

2009-03-26 Thread Ben Bridges
Mani, That's a very general question, and I don't claim to be an expert on all aspects of dns security, so hopefully those who are will chime in on this point. I think most of those who are knowledge about dns would probably recommend separating your authoritative and caching servers, especially

FORMERR resolving AAAA/IN records

2009-03-26 Thread b19141
Oliver Henriot wrote: >Dear list users, > >I have a bind 9.3 server on a centos 5.2 machine which logs huge (about >12 errors every second) quantities of FORMERR messages while trying to >resolve /IN records which look like this : > >Mar 25 08:44:24 myserver named[1124]: FORMERR resolving >'a

Re: multi-named instance exist?

2009-03-26 Thread Rich Goodson
If you're really looking to cover all bases, there's a little gotcha in Solaris (even in 10) that will make this startup script fail if it's invoked with sh (as most startup scripts that I've seen are). The 'test -e' is unavailable in sh on Solaris. You need to use -r (file exists and is r

Re: PTR for localhost

2009-03-26 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 26.03.09 21:34, dev_n...@zoho.com wrote: > In recent version of Bind-9.6, is it needed for reverse parsing config of > localhost? for example, > > zone "0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA" { > type master; > file "local.rev"; > }; I think it's not, but it's alwayt better to have it. However,

PTR for localhost

2009-03-26 Thread dev_null
Hello, In recent version of Bind-9.6, is it needed for reverse parsing config of localhost? for example, zone "0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA" { type master; file "local.rev"; }; thanks.___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https

Re: FORMERR resolving AAAA/IN records

2009-03-26 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
> Mar 25 08:44:24 myserver named[1124]: FORMERR resolving > 'auniarael.com//IN': 216.69.185.38#53 The negative response includes the optional NS records. My custom named has logging that says: FORMERR: NS name matches domain name. This new logging is not committed yet. If you have a

Re: DNS Appliance

2009-03-26 Thread Larry Fahnoe
Another thumbs-up for Infoblox. We've been using their appliance for a few years now and have been pleased with both the product and the support. We use it as a false root and manage both private and public name/address space with it; several hundred zones, many hundreds of networks world-wide.

RE: Root Server Simulation Communication Problem

2009-03-26 Thread T MANIKANDAN-PKXR74
Ben, In that case if I want an authoritative server and also a caching name server, is it fine if I place both the functionalities together as a best practice of implementation, how about security issues ?, If I want to introduce one more server for caching functionality alone how will I separa

Re: multi-named instance exist?

2009-03-26 Thread Chris Thompson
On Mar 26 2009, Kevin Darcy wrote: [...] The problems with using "ps" to find the named process include: -- you can get false matches if you don't tailor your string matching _just_right_, -- unexpectedly "missed" matches if the command-line arguments change, even a little bit (e.g. if someone

FORMERR resolving AAAA/IN records

2009-03-26 Thread Oliver Henriot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear list users, I have a bind 9.3 server on a centos 5.2 machine which logs huge (about 12 errors every second) quantities of FORMERR messages while trying to resolve /IN records which look like this : Mar 25 08:44:24 myserver named[1124]: FORME

Re: BIND - out of memory

2009-03-26 Thread Jan Arild Lindstrøm
Hi, I allready tried 9.4.3, and it happened there. Trying 9.6.0-P1 gives the same result: recursive clients: 1083/49900/5 --cut-- 26-Mar-2009 08:04:39.736 database: adb: fetch of 'mars.csd.unb.ca' A failed: out of memory 26-Mar-2009 08:04:39.737 data