rndc protocol

2012-10-04 Thread Matthew Horsfall (alh)
Hello, I was curious if the underlying protocol used by the rndc command was well documented and if writing clients against it (rather than using the rndc utility) was advisable or not. Thanks, -- Matthew Horsfall (alh) ___ Please visit

Responses erroneously marked invalid response?

2012-10-04 Thread Havard Eidnes
Hi, I've semi-recently updated a public resolver to running a bit newer version of BIND, currently at 9.8.4-P3. I've noticed that quite a number of query responses it receives are logged with DNS format error ... invalid response. Some semi-random examples picked from the log:

issues with BIND since a change of server

2012-10-04 Thread Thomas Manson
Hi, I had to change of server because the previous was getting old, and I had to do it very fast because of a mis-communication of my host... I'm on Ubuntu 12.04 server, x86_64. root@ns0:/etc/bind# aptitude show bind9 Package: bind9 New: yes State: installed Automatically installed: no

Re: issues with BIND since a change of server

2012-10-04 Thread John Miller
Hi Thomas, Since this is Ubuntu, what does /var/log/syslog have to say about the matter? Do you have any specific configuration for rndc controls, or are you primarily using the stock Ubuntu named.conf.local and named.conf.options? John On 10/04/2012 11:27 AM, Thomas Manson wrote: Hi,