RE: about the dig

2011-07-19 Thread Marc Lampo
I guess not, since it does not work ;-) After deleting all entries, did you : 1) dig @dns.name. ... or 2) dig @IP.address or 3) No @... argument used at all ? In cases 1 3, dig will need data from /etc/resolv.conf. Only in case 2 dig can do without. Kind regards, Marc Lampo -Original

Re: about the dig

2011-07-19 Thread Feng He
at least from my point dig hostname +trace should work even if there is no resolv.conf entries. On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Marc Lampo marc.la...@eurid.eu wrote: I guess not, since it does not work ;-) After deleting all entries, did you : 1) dig @dns.name. ... or 2) dig @IP.address

Re: about the dig

2011-07-19 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Feng He short...@gmail.com wrote: Hi list, When I deleted all the entries in /etc/resolv.conf (I am using Linux), dig can't work. I was thinking since dig is a standard resolver, what makes you think that? From the man page dig (domain information

Re: about the dig

2011-07-19 Thread Feng He
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Marc Lampo marc.la...@eurid.eu wrote: the list cannot be built-in, because some organisations work with an internal  root.  The local caching name server is the only one to know those new root's.) I don't think so. BIND 9 has the built-in root list.

Re: about the dig

2011-07-19 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 wrote: When I deleted all the entries in /etc/resolv.conf (I am using Linux), dig can't work. I was thinking since dig is a standard resolver... man resolv.conf If this file doesn't exist the only name server to be queried will be on the local machine;

Re: Patching bind for additional stats - any tips?

2011-07-19 Thread Michael Graff
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am very interested in hearing what you are looking for. I have some thoughts about performance measurements, mostly to answer the age-old question, Are my servers working well? Would you release the patches, and if so, would you be willing to work

authoritative server is not caching?

2011-07-19 Thread pangj
Hello, I want to make sure that if the authoritative server won't cache anything even if the authoritative answer from itself? Coz I saw the book Pro DNS and BIND says: The (authoritative) name server does not cache. thanks. Une messagerie gratuite, garantie à vie et des services en plus, ça

Re: about the dig

2011-07-19 Thread Feng He
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 2:47 PM, G.W. Haywood b...@jubileegroup.co.uk wrote: man resolv.conf If  this file doesn't exist the only name server to be queried will be on the local machine; the domain name is determined from the       hostname and the domain search path is constructed from

Re: about the dig

2011-07-19 Thread Phil Mayers
On 07/19/2011 06:32 AM, Feng He wrote: Hi list, When I deleted all the entries in /etc/resolv.conf (I am using Linux), dig can't work. I was thinking since dig is a standard resolver, it should have the capibility to follow the referrel from root, thus it will work fine even there is no system

Re: authoritative server is not caching?

2011-07-19 Thread Torinthiel
On 2011-07-19 11:40, pa...@laposte.net wrote: Hello, I want to make sure that if the authoritative server won't cache anything even if the authoritative answer from itself? Coz I saw the book Pro DNS and BIND says: The (authoritative) name server does not cache. Authoritative server

Re: authoritative server is not caching?

2011-07-19 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 11:40:02AM +0200, pa...@laposte.net pa...@laposte.net wrote a message of 11 lines which said: I want to make sure that if the authoritative server won't cache anything even if the authoritative answer from itself? I'm sorry but this sentence seems quite difficult to

Re: about the dig

2011-07-19 Thread Lyle Giese
On 7/19/2011 1:16 AM, Feng He wrote: On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Marc Lampomarc.la...@eurid.eu wrote: the list cannot be built-in, because some organisations work with an internal root. The local caching name server is the only one to know those new root's.) I don't think so. BIND 9

bind version problem

2011-07-19 Thread almahmud
Hi, If Bind version of primary dns is bind-libs-9.3.6-16.P1.el5 and for secondary dns bind-9.5.0-29.b2.fc9.i386. Is there create any problem?? Is it mandatory the same version for primary and secondary DNS. Regards - Mahmud ___ Please visit

Re: bind version problem

2011-07-19 Thread Daniel McDonald
On 7/19/11 9:30 AM, almah...@ranksitt.net almah...@ranksitt.net wrote: Hi, If Bind version of primary dns is bind-libs-9.3.6-16.P1.el5 and for secondary dns bind-9.5.0-29.b2.fc9.i386. Is there create any problem?? In general, it creates no problem. If you happen to use an RR for which

Re: about the dig

2011-07-19 Thread eugene tsuno
Feng: I think G.W is pointing out that in the absence of resolv.conf, dig uses the localhost to connect to the bind server. Just tcpdump the loopback interface, and you will see it. So the reason resolution works is because you are running bind on that server. It would not work on any client

Re: bind version problem

2011-07-19 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 08:30:17PM +0600, almah...@ranksitt.net almah...@ranksitt.net wrote a message of 18 lines which said: Is it mandatory the same version for primary and secondary DNS. It is not even mandatory for all the authoritative name servers to run BIND. They can be of different

AAAA type query invalidates A records in name server cache

2011-07-19 Thread mailsecurity
All, anyone experiencing the same behavior? Seen on BIND 9.5.2-P2 and BIND 9.8.0-P4 ns11:~ # nslookup -querytype=A xserv.ins.dell.com. . Non-authoritative answer: Name: xserv.ins.dell.com Address: 143.166.148.118 All ok. ns11:~ # nslookup -querytype=

Re: bind version problem

2011-07-19 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
If Bind version of primary dns is bind-libs-9.3.6-16.P1.el5 and for secondary dns bind-9.5.0-29.b2.fc9.i386. Something wrong there: libs vs. server, but I assume you mean server for both. Is it mandatory the same version for primary and secondary DNS. Not unless you rely on a particular

RE: about the dig

2011-07-19 Thread Lightner, Jeff
Or as previously pointed out it WILL work if you specify a name server at invocation. That is to say you MUST either do dig @server... OR have a resolve.conf that specifies servers to attempt if not specified at invocation. (And before anyone else says it - You can of course still specify a

Re: AAAA type query invalidates A records in name server cache

2011-07-19 Thread Bill Owens
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 04:58:53PM +0200, mailsecurity wrote: All, anyone experiencing the same behavior? I hope so, because that's the correct behavior. Dell's nameserver is broken: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4074 Common Misbehavior Against DNS Queries for IPv6 Addresses - May 2005 4.2.

Re: AAAA type query invalidates A records in name server cache

2011-07-19 Thread Tim Maestas
This is because Dell has incorrectly configured their F5 GTM load balancers to return NXDOMAIN on a query instead of NOERROR (this is configurable on a per-wideip basis in the GTM configuration - at least in present versions. In earlier versions you had to ensure that you had a record of

RE: AAAA type query invalidates A records in name server cache

2011-07-19 Thread mailsecurity
Will escalate via our Dell contact. Keep you posted about my success. Regards, Patrick -- This e-mail message and any attachments are of a confidential nature. The information is intended for the named addressee exclusively. If you are not the addressee, you may not electronically disseminate,

Re: sort list and view

2011-07-19 Thread Kevin Darcy
On 7/18/2011 11:42 PM, AMANI MOHAMED BIN SUWAIF wrote: Hi, I have the below scenario _TCP.EXAMPLE.COMIN SRV1005060primary-sbg.example.com _TCP.EXAMPLE.COMIN SRV2005060 secondary-sbg.example.com I have 2 IP ranges and 2 SBGs host, my intention is for

Re: sort list and view

2011-07-19 Thread AMANI M. BIN SUWAIF
Hi, The problem is that fail-over between A records is not standard and might/might not work with various SIP clients. On the other hand SRV in my opinion has been designed with that in mind, that's why the additional complexity with 2 SRV records. Thanks Regards, *Amani* On 7/20/2011