Re: Diagnostic help part 2

2014-10-03 Thread Dave Sparro
On 10/1/2014 3:45 PM, Tony Finch wrote: (Sorry for straying off topic. I have less experience of Cisco PIX/ASA breaking DNS than of them breaking SMTP.) I can't resist either.. I specifically remember a PIX that bit me by helpfully changing the payload of an axfr so that the A records that

Re: What happens when one out of three NSs are down?

2013-06-14 Thread Dave Sparro
On 6/11/2013 7:12 PM, Gary Wallis wrote: What really happens in the real world when 1 out of three authoritative NSs are down for 30 minutes due to a datacenter outage? For example, we have 3 NSs: ns1.someisp.net 12.23.34.45 ns2.someisp.net 23.34.45.56 ns3.someisp.net 34.45.56.67 All in

Re: Simple question about zone and CNAME

2013-04-12 Thread Dave Sparro
On 4/6/2013 12:46 AM, Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. wrote: So, up until a couple years ago...our webmail address had always been, and only webmail.ksu.edu. But, under the new directionit has to work as webmail.ksu.edu, www.webmail.ksu.edu, webmail.k-state.edu,www.webmail.k-state.edu. and SSL

Re: Logging

2013-01-11 Thread Dave Sparro
On 1/8/2013 8:19 AM, Timothe Litt wrote: What I think would be more useful is if named actually reported the issues to where they'd do some good. Perhaps a DNS extension I got an invalid message from you - so it shows up in the log of the server (and administrator) with the problem. (I'd

Re: load balance of DNS

2012-01-16 Thread Dave Sparro
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Barry Margolin bar...@alum.mit.edu wrote: One (icky) solution is to hand out more addresses for one server than the otherŠ www.example.com  IN  A  192.168.1.1 www.example.com  IN  A  192.168.1.2 www.example.com  IN  A  192.168.1.3 www.example.com  IN  A  

Re: High named CPU every 10 minutes?

2010-11-17 Thread Dave Sparro
On 11/17/2010 2:26 PM, blrmaani wrote: I see a peculiar behavior on my DNS server. The named CPU reaches 90% + every 10 minutes and my monitoring software keeps paging me. I have a DNS host running FreeBSD 7.x, running BIND 9.4.x on a 2-CPU machine with 4GB RAM. It is a recursive DNS server.

Re: AXFR partially timed out

2010-10-12 Thread Dave Sparro
On 10/11/2010 5:11 PM, Beat Jucker wrote: Is the problem zone larger than the ones that are not a problem? If so it may be a MTU problem, or even a firewall that does things differently based on packet sizes. Indeed the trouble zone is about double the size of other zones. Both DNS servers

Re: AXFR partially timed out

2010-10-07 Thread Dave Sparro
On 10/7/2010 4:55 AM, Beat Jucker wrote: Hello BIND users I have a very strange problem with AXFR. We are using a master and a secondary DNS Server with an internal and an external view. Depending on the source address the secondary server will get the internal or external view for zone

Re: minimum cache times?

2010-10-05 Thread Dave Sparro
On 10/5/2010 9:19 AM, Atkins, Brian (GD/VA-NSOC) wrote: I asked a similar question 2 weeks ago and got a non-response (e.g., a response with no real information). From what I've read, everyone seems to frown on over-riding cache times, but I haven't seen any specifics as to why it's bad.

Re: Max-Cache-TTL

2010-09-23 Thread Dave Sparro
On 9/23/2010 10:19 AM, Atkins, Brian (GD/VA-NSOC) wrote: I'm looking for methods to reduce the period of time we cache external records (e.g., www.google.com). I think the option I need to implement is max-cache-ttl. Is this the correct method for limiting caching? Are there reasons that I

Re: Caching nameservers dealing with dead authoritative servers

2010-09-16 Thread Dave Sparro
On 9/15/2010 5:18 PM, ML wrote: Hi, I'm having a problem with my caching DNS servers. I'm on bind 9.4.3-p5, threads enabled (4), running gentoo 64 bits. For 2 days, I have some clients (mail servers receiving spams) issuing a lot of requests on zone hosted on dead dns server. For example :

Re: Slave DNS zone problem

2010-09-09 Thread Dave Sparro
On 9/9/2010 4:43 AM, Rock July wrote: Hi All, I have a problem with one of my DNS. This DNS is configured as slave and have two masters (hosting different domains). Recently, I changed the IP of one of the master DNS then all domains under that master DNS cannot be resolved on the slave DNS

Re: Multiple CNAME alternantive?

2010-08-19 Thread Dave Sparro
On 8/19/2010 10:52 AM, Steve Arntzen wrote: I would like to resolve dns.ourdomain.com to a list of our DNS server names and possibly their IPs. As we use many DNS servers (and or views) for our different development environments, it would be very helpful for the developers to easily find the

Re: I get No mail exchanger (MX) records available for rimm.com error just for a couple of domains

2010-08-19 Thread Dave Sparro
On 8/19/2010 2:33 PM, Samad Agha wrote: 2- When I perform this query from our ns1 server I do get the correct result, but the same query from ns2 server fails can't find rim.com http://rim.com: Non-existent host/domain Any help would be highly appreciated; many thanks in advance. The

Re: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov / pubmed

2010-08-18 Thread Dave Sparro
On 8/18/2010 8:30 AM, Phil Mayers wrote: On 18/08/10 13:15, Lightner, Jeff wrote: It comes right up in Firefox but prompts for a username and password. Do you have DNSSEC validation enabled? Because as per my email, it's a DNSSEC problem. After a bit of investigation, it seems that the

Re: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov / pubmed

2010-08-18 Thread Dave Sparro
On 8/18/2010 1:12 PM, Casey Deccio wrote: On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Dave Sparrodspa...@gmail.com wrote: On 8/18/2010 8:30 AM, Phil Mayers wrote: ...since the ncbi zone is an unsigned child zone, there needs to be an NSEC/NSEC3 record to prove the absence of the DS record, and have a

Re: Can an NS point to a CNAME

2010-08-13 Thread Dave Sparro
On 8/13/2010 6:08 AM, Phil Mayers wrote: Still puzzled that bind didn't seem to log anything. I will have a trawl through the source I think; I'm sure it must be my logging config. I don't know if I'm on the right path, but were you logging lame delegations? -- Dave

Re: Cannot resolve DNS off public dns, but can via nameserver ip

2010-08-13 Thread Dave Sparro
On 8/13/2010 1:53 PM, Mike Mackintosh wrote: How will the registrar be able to resolve the host name dns.angryserver.net if dns is not propagating? I understand that when you register a domain, the registrar will send the nameserver information to the root servers, which are then queried for

Re: Three NameServer DOSing my dns1

2010-07-29 Thread Dave Sparro
On 7/29/2010 2:11 PM, Michelle Konzack wrote: Hello Matus UHLAR - fantomas, Your hostname is private and inaccessible from the outside. The requesters get SERVFAIL reply which apparently makes them retry. If you provided them any IP address (e.g. 127.0.0.1) they could be satisfied and stop

Re: Three NameServer DOSing my dns1

2010-07-28 Thread Dave Sparro
On 7/28/2010 5:53 AM, Michelle Konzack wrote: Hello Experts, my primary NameServerdns1.tamay-dogan.net is hit by more then 600.000 requests per day coming mainly from three NameServers: [ '/var/log/named.log' ] Jul 28 11:18:17 samba3

Re: Performance tuning tips required for bind 9.6.1-P3!!!

2010-07-13 Thread Dave Sparro
On 7/13/2010 1:11 PM, Shiva Raman wrote: Dear All This is in reference to the performance tuning , i had already gone through the mailing list archives , but could not find answer to my specific query mentioned here. Right now i am using queryperf to test the performance with sample query

Re: SRV record question

2010-06-18 Thread Dave Sparro
On 6/16/2010 10:44 AM, Niobos wrote: In this configuration, the server's IP is present multiple times, which will lead to mistakes in the future. I can't let the SRV-record point directly to server either, since the vhost-configuration needs the correct Host:-HTTP header. Or am I missing

Re: Caching DNS server (bind9.4.2) CPU usage is so so so high.

2010-04-26 Thread Dave Sparro
On 4/25/2010 10:23 PM, Trần Trọng Tấn wrote: Hi, I have a caching-only dns server which get ~3k queries per second. Here is specs: |Xeon dual-core2,8GHz 4GB of RAM Centos 5x 32bit(kernel2.6.18-164.15.1.el5PAE) bind9.4.2 | rndc status: recursive clients: 666/4900/5000 Bind always uses

Re: CNAME Issue - Whether to use CNAME-data or Response-Flag

2010-04-21 Thread Dave Sparro
On 4/9/2010 8:59 PM, Steven Wilmot wrote: 1 - The original server-configuration (or response) from primary-dns.co.uk is NOT VALID If this is the case, could you please help let me know exactly which RFC or configuration that you believe is not valid. Note: 'primary-dns.co.uk is owned and

Re: Different handling of referrals by dig and nslookup

2010-02-16 Thread Dave Sparro
On 2/13/2010 9:42 PM, kalpesh varyani wrote: Hi Rick, I am aware that it is a somewhat odd (but not incorrect, am I right ?) to put a non-recursive name server in the resolv.conf but I am not able to understand the behavioral difference of ping/dig and nslookup. But logically shouldn't it

Re: Bind9 overloaded, recursive clients and timeout.

2010-02-10 Thread Dave Sparro
On 2/9/2010 7:28 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: In message4b719346.4020...@arcelormittal.com, Cedric Lejeune writes: In fact, our firewall was doing some kind of traffic shaping (thanks Robert ;): if the number of requests of any type goes above a define number, then block further requests.

Re: Feature request - disable internal recursion cache

2009-12-02 Thread Dave Sparro
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Dmitry Rybin kirg...@corbina.net wrote: I found answer for my feature request - simple C proxer: http://www.wolfermann.org/dnsproxy.html It can forward queries to auth or recursion server. Based on client IPs. What if one of your access customers is running

Re: Match-Clients not working in DNS

2009-11-16 Thread Dave Sparro
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 7:08 AM, Agarwal Vivek-RNGB36 rng...@motorola.com wrote: Iam running BIND-9.3.3 on Linux Server. I have configured match-clients in the named.conf file. I added some more IPS to this and restarted the named process. The issue is its not getting updated and the new added

Re: rndc command for erased zone?

2009-09-23 Thread Dave Sparro
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 8:00 AM, Marcos Lorenzo de Santiago marcos.lore...@ayto-getafe.org wrote: I no longer manage one of our DNS domain. As I use 'rndc reconfig' to load newly created zones I was wondering if exists a way to do the same as reconfig but inversely, I mean, reload configuration

Re: problem resolving domains with bind9.5.0-P2

2009-09-09 Thread Dave Sparro
Based on the answer size for the query you presented, I'd focus on looking for an upstream filter/device that is blocking answers that are 512 bytes. On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 5:34 AM, Matthias Brehmmatthias.br...@dpd.com wrote: Dear all, we use bind9.5.0-P2 for the internet dns server.

Re: clearing local caches

2009-07-15 Thread Dave Sparro
Scott Haneda wrote: On Jul 15, 2009, at 12:29 PM, Dave Sparro wrote: Scott Haneda wrote: ... However, I would like to just get DNS response times. Perhaps take the list of hosts and feed them to a iterative script calling dig, and fish out the response time? This does add the problem

Re: Random nx name queries, anyone see this before?

2008-12-16 Thread Dave Sparro
Alan Clegg wrote: ponga2...@gmail.com wrote: I'm seeing name queries from a couple clients on the network that occur around every two minutes - the queries are evidently random and are looking for A IN records of this form, as an example: ungzbvyf.lzghmccim They always look like this, 8