Re: Split DNS Configuration in BIND

2011-05-30 Thread Doug Barton
On 05/29/2011 21:59, babu dheen wrote: Hi, Would like to know how to configure split DNS in BIND running in RHEL 5.0 version. Below is our setup and requirement. We have a zone called mycompany.com . So whenever my company users sitting in LAN try to access mycompany.com domain in explorer,

Re: Split DNS Configuration in BIND

2011-05-30 Thread babu dheen
Dear Doug,   Appreciate your quick response. Actually this setup is very much required for us. Let me tell you the scenario:   We have DNS record called mail.company.com which is hosted in internal company LAN network. When any users try to access mail.company.com in browser, they will get

Re: Hosting my company DNS server in Internet

2011-05-30 Thread Eivind Olsen
babu dheen wrote:   Can anyone have any idea as to how we can host our own autherative DNS server for my company. For example if my company domain is mycompany.com, we want to maintain our own DNS server so that users across world should contact our DNS server for name resolution for

Re: Hosting my company DNS server in Internet

2011-05-30 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 10:31:28AM +0530, babu dheen babudh...@yahoo.co.in wrote a message of 44 lines which said: Can anyone have any idea as to how we can host our own autherative DNS server for my company. There is not much diference between the hosting of a DNS server and the hosting

Re: Hosting my company DNS server in Internet

2011-05-30 Thread babu dheen
Dear Olsen,   thanks for the update. I can follow all the steps but i couldn't understand below two points    - register/buy the domain name(s) if you haven't already done so. - tell your registrar to configure your parent domain so it'll delegate your domain to your nameservers      My concern

Re: DNS Racing -Multi ISP load balancing with failover using DNS.

2011-05-30 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 30.05.11 05:12, Maren S. Leizaola wrote: DNS-Racing is a method of load balancing access to servers which are multi homed and provides lowest latency access to users and network resilience to ISP/routing failure. like, RRset sorting? **What does it do?* It permits a server which is

Re: Hosting my company DNS server in Internet

2011-05-30 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 3:45 PM, babu dheen babudh...@yahoo.co.in wrote: Dear Olsen, thanks for the update. I can follow all the steps but i couldn't understand below two points  - register/buy the domain name(s) if you haven't already done so. - tell your registrar to configure your

Re: Hosting my company DNS server in Internet

2011-05-30 Thread babu dheen
Dear Fajar,    Wonderful response from you. Really appreciate. As you asked, below is my update on the checklist.    I am not sure why i do need to pay money to my ISP for hosting my website on my company DNS server.   If you have no idea what I'm talking about, here's a somewhat simple

Re: Hosting my company DNS server in Internet

2011-05-30 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 04:51:18PM +0530, babu dheen babudh...@yahoo.co.in wrote a message of 227 lines which said:  I am not sure why i do need to pay money to my ISP for hosting my website on my company DNS server. This sentence seems to indicate that you know very little about Internet

Re: Hosting my company DNS server in Internet

2011-05-30 Thread babu dheen
Hi,    My concern is not giving money to ISP and kindly please note that i am not going to host my website in DNS server whereas we are already managing the website in our network but using ISP DNS server for name resolution only for outside users(internet).   In short, i can say that we just

9.8 manuals on web

2011-05-30 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
Hello, the web page (http://www.isc.org/software/bind/documentation) claims to provide links to 9.4-9.8 manuals (html and pdf) however only 9.4 and 9.5 are working. Did a mistake happen here? -- Matus UHLAR - fantomas, uh...@fantomas.sk ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ Warning: I wish NOT to receive

RE: Split DNS Configuration in BIND

2011-05-30 Thread Frank Bulk
Not all firewalls can hairpin a public IP back to a private IP. We've had to do this, too. Yes, we could have create a separate zone, but that would requiring training our staff to use on FQDN internally and another with the customers. Easier to teach one thing to the staff and push the

recursive lookups problems with 9.8.0_p2

2011-05-30 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
Hello, after upgrading to 9.8.0p2 I have notices problems with recursive queries. The server sometimes does not return answer for e.g. www.yahoo.com. Repeated lookups for www.yahoo.com sometimes do, sometimes do not return the answer, only the first CNAME, but the nameserver did know where the

Re: recursive lookups problems with 9.8.0_p2

2011-05-30 Thread Evan Hunt
Would it be convenient to try 9.8.1b1? It has a fix that may address this problem. I should add that I don't recommend using 9.8.1b1 in a production environemnt because of a known security flaw. But it might be informative to test with it and see whether it addresses the CNAME problem, and if

Re: recursive lookups problems with 9.8.0_p2

2011-05-30 Thread Evan Hunt
after upgrading to 9.8.0p2 I have notices problems with recursive queries. The server sometimes does not return answer for e.g. www.yahoo.com. Would it be convenient to try 9.8.1b1? It has a fix that may address this problem. -- Evan Hunt -- e...@isc.org Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.

Re: Split DNS Configuration in BIND

2011-05-30 Thread Doug Barton
On 05/30/2011 09:15, Frank Bulk wrote: Not all firewalls can hairpin a public IP back to a private IP. We’ve had to do this, too. First, firewalls don't do routing. :) Yes, we could have create a separate zone, but that would requiring training our staff to use on FQDN internally and another

Re: Split DNS Configuration in BIND

2011-05-30 Thread Doug Barton
On 05/29/2011 23:17, babu dheen wrote: We have DNS record called mail.company.com which is hosted in internal company LAN network. When any users try to access mail.company.com in browser, they will get private IP address and immediately they will get mail.company.com website home page whereas

Re: Re: DNS Racing -Multi ISP load balancing with failover using DNS.

2011-05-30 Thread Maren S. Leizaola
Hello, I am reading this mailing as a digest so sorry for the late replies. Firstly we have been using this method for over 4 years and I've yet not had one person tell me that they can connect to our servers using POP3, SMPT, IMAP or WEB. 1. Mark, Regarding Chrome, my last big

RE: Split DNS Configuration in BIND

2011-05-30 Thread Frank Bulk
Point taken, and I should have mentioned that it's NAT in play. I agree, it's a problem that not all firewalls can hairpin public IPs back to their private IPs, but when working with what you got sometimes the solution isn't ideal. Frank -Original Message- From: Doug Barton

Re: Split DNS Configuration in BIND

2011-05-30 Thread Sten Carlsen
In a number of cases NATs have a problem to access the internal boxes via an external address from inside the NAT. In such cases it is much easier to just access the box from inside with it's internal address and from outside with its external address. Using the two views allows for all sorts of

Re: 9.8 manuals on web

2011-05-30 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 20110530151431.ga23...@fantomas.sk, Matus UHLAR - fantomas writes: Hello, the web page (http://www.isc.org/software/bind/documentation) claims to provide links to 9.4-9.8 manuals (html and pdf) however only 9.4 and 9.5 are working. Did a mistake happen here? Forwarded for

RE: 9.8 manuals on web

2011-05-30 Thread Jason Mitchell
Seems like the ./doc directory is missing from the /isc/bind/cur/9.x tree, which is linked to from the page you mentioned below. It's there in ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind/9.8.0-P1/ but not in ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind/9.8.0-P2/ --jm -Original Message- From:

Re: DNS Racing -Multi ISP load balancing with failover using DNS.

2011-05-30 Thread Mark Andrews
It is still a bad idea. Fixing the clients so they work well with multi-homed servers not only works today with mostly IPv4 servers but also works well with dual stack server and IPv6 only servers. You don't have to have artifially low TTLs on the DNS responses. You get sub-second failover on

Re: DNS Racing -Multi ISP load balancing with failover using DNS.

2011-05-30 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 4de42bef.3050...@chrysler.com, Kevin Darcy writes: Get back to us when you prove that this co-exists with DNSSEC; otherwise it's a non-starter. While you're at it, some data proving that this actually enhances performance or availability would be nice too. On further examination

Re: DNS Racing -Multi ISP load balancing with failover using DNS.

2011-05-30 Thread Kevin Darcy
Normally I'd defer to your vastly greater knowledge and experience in DNSSEC, but here in the U.S. we have a saying I'm from Missouri, which is a roundabout way of expressing show me (Show Me being the unofficial slogan of the state of Missouri). Maybe it *should* work, but when it comes to

Re: DNS Racing -Multi ISP load balancing with failover using DNS.

2011-05-30 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 4de43e3e.2040...@chrysler.com, Kevin Darcy writes: Normally I'd defer to your vastly greater knowledge and experience in DNSSEC, but here in the U.S. we have a saying I'm from Missouri, which is a roundabout way of expressing show me (Show Me being the unofficial slogan of the

Re: Split DNS Configuration in BIND

2011-05-30 Thread babu dheen
Its very simple,    If you know basic firewall concept, we will configure source NATing from public IP address to original website private address in firewall. So when any users from internet access my company website, they should obviously get public IP of my company website and once they get