Re: BIND ignores changes in zonefiles

2012-06-15 Thread Marian Roess
Thank you all. It was as some of you suggested. There were two instances of bind running. One answering the queries, the ohterone listening on the controllchannel. After killing both and starting bind again, all works well. Thank you Greetings, Marian -- Marian Roess __

limiting number of requests of a single hosts

2012-06-15 Thread Holemans Wim
We have a problem with one of our firewalls caused by DNS peaks. Once or twice a day a DNS burst (20K requests/15sec) kills all connections on the firewall. The firewall is due for replacement but in the mean time we would like to stop these peaks at their origin or at least try to limit their im

Re: ADB messages

2012-06-15 Thread Cathy Almond
On 17/11/11 19:28, Binu B Nair wrote: > Hello, > > I am getting the following informational messages on starting named after > installing bind 9.8.1-P1 on a set of resolvers. Please advise. > > 18-Nov-2011 03:35:14.872 database: info: adb: grow_entries to 1531 starting > 18-Nov-2011 03:35:14.874

Several (>2) different views

2012-06-15 Thread Niall O'Reilly
On 15 Jun 2012, at 01:14, Rodrigo Renie Braga wrote: > I've been trying to find examples on how to use TSIG to replicate several > differents views to a slave server, but I could only find with two views, and > I just couldn't figure out how to adapt that example to 3 or more views. > > Could

Re: limiting number of requests of a single hosts

2012-06-15 Thread Tony Finch
Holemans Wim wrote: > > I have 2 questions, one, is there a way  to rate-limit the amount of > request a single client (the AD servers in this case) can have standing > out against a bind server ? Kind of rate-limiting parameter for bind > name server. There isn't a way to do this in BIND. If you

Re: limiting number of requests of a single hosts

2012-06-15 Thread Fr34k
Hello, You may wish to read ISC/BIND's ARM about these settings (i.e., what they do, how they work, what the defaults are, etc):     recursive-clients N;     tcp-clients M;     clients-per-query P;     max-clients-per-query R; where N, M, P, and R are numbers appropriate for y

Re: limiting number of requests of a single hosts

2012-06-15 Thread WBrown
bind-users-bounces+wbrown=e1b@lists.isc.org wrote on 06/15/2012 04:25:16 AM: > We have a problem with one of our firewalls caused by DNS peaks. > Once or twice a day a DNS burst (20K requests/15sec) kills all > connections on the firewall. > The firewall is due for replacement but in the me

RE: limiting number of requests of a single hosts

2012-06-15 Thread Holemans Wim
Wim Holemans Netwerkdienst Universiteit Antwerpen Network Services University of Antwerp One of the problems is that these firewalls are going to be replaced soon and we don't want to spend to much effort in trying to fix what seems an annoying side-effect of something caused by a DNS system.

Re: limiting number of requests of a single hosts

2012-06-15 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 9:37 PM, Holemans Wim wrote: > > > Wim Holemans > Netwerkdienst Universiteit Antwerpen > Network Services University of Antwerp > > > One of the problems is that these firewalls are going to be replaced soon and > we don't want to spend to much effort in trying to fix what

RE: limiting number of requests of a single hosts

2012-06-15 Thread Holemans Wim
Yes we know and new firewalls are on their way (already partly installed), but we can't activate them for the moment as we are in an examination period in which we can't make any change to our network as students should be able to take online tests 24/24... Wim Holemans Netwerkdienst Universite

Re: limiting number of requests of a single hosts

2012-06-15 Thread pangj
You DO realize that DNS is (mostly) UDP packets, and an attacker (or in your case, the ADs) can simply send UDP packet floods to kill your firewall (in your current state), regardless how your DNS server is configured, even when the DNS server is down? Once we had the firewall for DNS, when it

Re: limiting number of requests of a single hosts

2012-06-15 Thread Warren Kumari
On Jun 15, 2012, at 4:25 AM, Holemans Wim wrote: > We have a problem with one of our firewalls caused by DNS peaks. Yes. W > Once or twice a day a DNS burst (20K requests/15sec) kills all connections on > the firewall. > The firewall is due for replacement but in the mean time we would like

Re: limiting number of requests of a single hosts

2012-06-15 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Fri, 15 Jun 2012, Holemans Wim wrote: ... Once or twice a day a DNS burst (20K requests/15sec) kills all connections on the firewall. Have you disabled firewall connection tracking for DNS requests? We have 6 dns servers (bind) on our campus, that are all authoritative for our

Re: limiting number of requests of a single hosts

2012-06-15 Thread Sten Carlsen
On 15/06/12 16:37, Holemans Wim wrote: > > Wim Holemans > Netwerkdienst Universiteit Antwerpen > Network Services University of Antwerp > > > One of the problems is that these firewalls are going to be replaced soon and > we don't want to spend to much effort in trying to fix what seems an annoy