How is a $ORIGIN directive used inside a DNS Zone File

2015-12-13 Thread Harshith Mulky
Why is a $ORIGIN directive used in DNS Zone Files? Would my Zone Files not work if I do not have $ORIGIN directive? I would need some examples on how this works, lets say $ORIGIN . [ What does $ORIGIN . mean?] or What is the difference here having 1.e164.arpa. in $ORIGIN [ as in example 1] or

unalbe-to-query

2015-12-13 Thread Ejaz
Hi all, We are one of the leading ISP of Saudi Arabia. Installed latest version of bind and smbind inorder manage the zones over the Web interface. Wonder is that, the zones which configured through smbind cannot be seen from the outside world.. locally it is fine. For an example arabsa

Did anyone try to extract query-rate etc using xml-stats?

2015-12-13 Thread blrmaani
Latest version of BIND supports BIND stats via http i.e we can do this (assuming appropriate configs already done in named.conf for this to work): curl : > bind-stats.xml What other tools are available to read this XML file and extract stats? ___ Pl

Re: Panic due to insist assertion error in BIND 9.6.2-P2

2015-12-13 Thread blrmaani
On Thursday, December 3, 2015 at 2:30:24 AM UTC-8, manasa gowda wrote: > Hi, > > > Bind version used is 9.6.2-P2. > Named crashed (In panic State) with INSIST Assertion error. The following  is > backtrace > > > > #2  0x0041b635 in assertion_failed (file=0x5b2e78 > "src/contrib/bind9

Re: putting several master DNS hosts behind a vip

2015-12-13 Thread blrmaani
On Thursday, December 10, 2015 at 9:04:48 AM UTC-8, Bob Harold wrote: > On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 6:32 PM, blrmaani wrote: > Hi, > >   I would like to put 4 DNS masters behind a vip and have several slaves > doing the zone transfer from the VIP-IP. Is this normal? > > > > The usual approach is t