Re: named daemon hangs

2009-05-04 Thread Adam Tkac
On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 04:06:18PM +0100, Nelson Vale wrote: > Hi all, > > > I've been facing a problem in my private network which I was not able to fix > yet. > > In my gateway (linux debian alike) I have bind 9.5 installed and running, > and I have one IPSec tunnel to another gateway over the

Re: named daemon hangs

2009-05-04 Thread Nelson Vale
Hi, Thank you all for your help. This fix surely made the difference :). echo "1" >/proc/sys/net/core/xfrm_larval_drop Nelson Vale On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Adam Tkac wrote: > On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 04:06:18PM +0100, Nelson Vale wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > > > I've been facing a probl

ISC libbind 6.0

2009-05-04 Thread Evan Hunt
Hello, It's come to our attention that when libbind 6.0 was released, a little over a month ago, something went wrong with the mail announcing it and it never got outside ISC. My apologies for not noticing the error sooner, and here's the mail again: ISC libbind 6.0 is now avail

Postgres v MySQL v Berkely backend for BIND

2009-05-04 Thread Stephen Carville
I have to bother you all again. I was asked Friday afternoon about using a database with the new BIND servers. To me it seems using MySQL or PostgreSQL is a bit like hunting rabbits with a howitzer though Berkely DB looks like a good fit. I can find patches for all three but no real information

Re: Postgres v MySQL v Berkely backend for BIND

2009-05-04 Thread David Ford
I use the DLZ/PG backend and it's rock solid. I use Ant with a few modifications for my front end. Stephen Carville wrote: > I have to bother you all again. > > I was asked Friday afternoon about using a database with the new BIND > servers. To me it seems using MySQL or PostgreSQL is a bit like

Re: Mass update of TTL and serial

2009-05-04 Thread Kevin Darcy
Next stage of evolution = Dynamic Update. Never have to futz with bumping serial numbers ever again. - Kevin Bradley Giesbrecht wrote: You may find named-compilezone useful to get your zone files in a consistent format before performing your mass update. //Brad On May 2, 2009, at 3:39 PM, S

Re: Postgres v MySQL v Berkely backend for BIND

2009-05-04 Thread R Dicaire
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Stephen Carville wrote: > Anyone here have experience or an informed opinion in using a database > backend to BIND? I've been using the pgsql sdb backend for 5+ years, wrote my own php front end to it. Its been solid. -- aRDy Music and Rick Dicaire present: http:

tcp versus udp

2009-05-04 Thread Martin McCormick
When are tcp dns queries necessary? It was my understanding that clients could user tcp or udp. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group ___ bind-us

Re: tcp versus udp

2009-05-04 Thread Eduardo Júnior
Hi, On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Martin McCormick wrote: >When are tcp dns queries necessary? > >It was my understanding that clients could user tcp or > udp. According to what I read, dns queries are executed using udp Only zone transfers use tcp connections. But still acc

RE: tcp versus udp

2009-05-04 Thread Baird, Josh
In addition, TCP is used for queries > 512bytes. Josh From: bind-users-boun...@lists.isc.org on behalf of Eduardo Júnior Sent: Mon 5/4/2009 8:35 PM To: Martin McCormick Cc: bind-us...@isc.org Subject: Re: tcp versus udp Hi, On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 9:28 PM

Re: tcp versus udp

2009-05-04 Thread Matt Baxter
On May 4, 2009, at 7:28 PM, Martin McCormick wrote: When are tcp dns queries necessary? It was my understanding that clients could user tcp or udp. When a response can not fit in a single UDP packet the server will mark the truncated flag (and respond with all the data it c

Re: tcp versus udp

2009-05-04 Thread Martin McCormick
Matt Baxter writes: > When a response can not fit in a single UDP packet the server will mark > the > truncated flag (and respond with all the data it can inside the UDP > packet). That should trigger a client to resubmit the query via TCP. Zone > transfers are the most common use for TCP, but it

Re: tcp versus udp

2009-05-04 Thread Ben Croswell
Also if EDNS0 is in effect theoretically the max size would be 4096 bytes before a truncate happened. -- -Ben Croswell On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Martin McCormick wrote: > Matt Baxter writes: > > When a response can not fit in a single UDP packet the server will mark > > the > > truncated

DNS failures - FORMERR

2009-05-04 Thread Eric Swenson
I'm seeing lots of DNS resolution failures on my router (running Utuntu 8.10, bind 9.3.4). While most succeed, I get quite a few FORMERR errors similar to: May 4 20:25:25 localhost named[19579]: FORMERR resolving ' imap.gmail.com/A/IN': 66.151.140.2#53 May 4 20:25:25 localhost named[19579]: FORM