Re: How to update zone with dnssec-policy

2023-07-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 03/07/2023 19:36, Matthias Fechner wrote: What I understood from the documentation: *-s* /server/[#/port/] I can maintain e.g. my zones from my local computer at home inside a git repository and use nsdiff and nspatch to push the changes to the server in the internet? Correct. Does the s

Re: How to update zone with dnssec-policy

2023-07-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 02/07/2023 12:27, Matthias Fechner wrote: I have the following problem that changes in a zone file do not get active, no matter if I reload the zone using rndc or restarting bind 9.16.42 on FreeBSD. If I update a zone I edit the zone file, adapt the serial in the SOA and normally do a rndc r

Re: DNS traffic accounting

2017-07-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 07/18/17 16:09, Abi Askushi wrote: > I am trying to figure out how could I account the DNS traffic generated > from clients in terms of bytes. My setup is a simple caching DNS with > several clients querying the DNS server. I can measure the DNS traffic > that is generated from the DNS server o

Re: "spare hosts" as personal DNS nameservers for 'mynew.org'

2017-07-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 2017/07/11 14:57, b...@zq3q.org wrote: > I have several linux VMs, that are under used, so I want to use them > for the nameservers for 'mynew.org'. **Neither are in 'mynew.org'; > is that going to work?** Yes, that will work. There is no requirement for any of the NSes for a zone to be part

Re: designing the DNS from the scratch

2017-07-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 2017/07/10 14:16, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: >>> But you do know the approximate speed of light in a vacuum? > > there's always dark in my vacuum, so the speed of light doesn't apply > there. > > On 10.07.17 09:02, wbr...@e1b.org wrote: >> More importantly, what is the speed of light in a f

Re: The DDOS attack on DYN & RRL ?

2016-11-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 2016/11/01 14:45, Ben Croswell wrote: > The other option being having a master owned by your company and then > setting both external providers to secondary from your master. You to > maintain control over data and hqve diversity. Agreed. This works well -- it's what we do. Cheers,

Re: The DDOS attack on DYN & RRL ?

2016-10-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 2016/10/31 16:09, Barry Margolin wrote: > I heard that the impact of the attack was even narrower than just the > US, it was mostly eastern US. That suggests some things about the > granularity of Dyn's anycast network and the distribution of the Mirai > botnet. There were actually three att

Re: The DDOS attack on DYN & RRL ?

2016-10-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 2016/10/31 14:53, Jim Popovitch wrote: > On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 10:25 AM, Matthew Seaman > wrote: >> This despite the fact that Dyn has a global anycast network with >> plenty of bandwidth, points of presence all round the world and >> each POP contains a bunch of

Re: The DDOS attack on DYN & RRL ?

2016-10-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 10/31/16 12:41, MURTARI, JOHN wrote: > God only knows, the DDOS hackers are probably on this listbut I > have to ask what protections DYN had in place before the attack > occurred. RRL has been promoted as some protection against these > types of attacks. If they had it in place, did it he

Re: compile and install from source

2015-03-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 31/03/2015 02:32, @lbutlr wrote: >> Can you start the named process "by hand" -- the command line should be >> > something like: >> > >> > # /usr/local/sbin/named -u bind -c /etc/namedb/named.conf \ >> >-t /var/named > Yes, that works without reporting any errors, so the issue appears to >

Re: compile and install from source

2015-03-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 03/30/15 00:35, @lbutlr wrote: > Downloaded and compiled bind-9.9.7 (FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE) and it built fine > (./configure && make && make install). On FreeBSD, building software out of the ports is definitely recommended. It does the usual configure and make dance, but you also get the benef

Re: OpenSSL problem: bind98-base FreeBSD port

2012-07-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 09/07/2012 01:40, Doug Barton wrote: > On 07/08/2012 17:33, Matthew Pounsett wrote: >> >> On 2012/07/08, at 20:29, Matthew Pounsett wrote: >> >>> >>> On 2012/07/08, at 20:26, Mark Andrews wrote: >>> One can also build named w/o GOST support if one wants. We statically link all th

Re: bind caching dns

2012-05-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 08/05/2012 10:09, Ben wrote: > I am new with bind.I am trying to configure bind as caching server for > our network.I configure it and it works successfully. > > Can we get report or statistics something which shows which queries > resolved from cache and which resolved from internet? Yes. Add

Re: rndc status number of zones

2012-03-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 01/03/2012 12:10, Emil Natan wrote: > On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Matthew Seaman < > m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > >> > On 01/03/2012 11:20, Emil Natan wrote: >>> > > Do any of you experience the same issue? Any ideas w

Re: rndc status number of zones

2012-03-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 01/03/2012 11:20, Emil Natan wrote: > Do any of you experience the same issue? Any ideas what I'm missing or > what's wrong? Automatic empty zones? Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard

Re: forwarding "@" to a different domain?

2012-01-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 08/01/2012 17:09, enigmedia (onl) wrote: > How do I point requests for "http://mydomain.com"; and > "http://www.mydomain.com"; to "http://mydomain.myshopify.com";? Look up an A record (or ) for mydomain.myshopify.com, then create a similar A (or ) record pointing to the same address in

Re: multiple `zone' clauses for a single domain?

2011-11-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 25/11/2011 16:59, Marek Kozlowski wrote: > Is it allowed to use a few `zone' clauses for a single domain? Is > something like this correct: > > zone "mickey.mouse.com" in { > type master; > file "pri/mickey-public.zone"; > allow-query { any; }; > allow-transfer {

Re: Puzzeling about IPv6

2011-11-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 19/11/2011 18:47, 夜神 岩男 wrote: >> Oh, and given you've got 64bits to play with, so long as your random >> numbers are up to scratch no need to worry about collisions. You'ld >> need to be assigning millions of addresses before you ran into that >> problem. > > Not to be an ass and this is like

Re: Puzzeling about IPv6

2011-11-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 17/11/2011 15:13, Michelle Konzack wrote: > my ISP is now offering an IPv6 /64 subnet for > free for each Server. Not only Root-Servers but for realy ALL! > > OK, however, I like to setup my VHosts to use it, but I am puzzling > around how to do this with bind9

Re: Port number in A record in zone file

2011-11-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 17/11/2011 14:41, Aleksander Kurczyk wrote: > If not, it is possible to map traffic from 127.0.0.11:53, > 127.0.0.12:53 and 127.0.0.13:53 to 127.0.0.1:2001, 127.0.0.1:2002 and > 127.0.0.1:2003 or to setup new loopback interfaces for 127.0.0.11, > 127.0.0.12 and 127.0.0.13 on Mac OS X or somehow

Re: [Best practice] Internal zone

2011-11-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 15/11/2011 12:50, Jeremy MAURO wrote: > I asking you all for you best practice regarding your internal DNS and > zones. > > I have a 2 DNS servers used as Internal DNS and Resolvers, here is the > dilemma, should I declare in each internal zone my NS with a glue record: > > $ORIGIN example.int

Re: Syncing DNS zones with different names

2011-11-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 15/11/2011 07:19, Chris Balmain wrote: > Let's say I have two domain names, d1.com and d2.com, and I want to > synchronise all records underneath them (one-way sync, that is). So if I > create an A record www.d1.com pointing at 1.2.3.4, www.d2.com is also > automatically created, with the same v

Re: How to show the Recursion behaviour of DNS Servers

2011-11-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 05/11/2011 19:37, Gaurav Kansal wrote: > Is there any way in dig or nslookup utility to see the whole path which a > DNS Server follows for giving me the answer. dig +trace www.nkn.in is pretty close to what you ask. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.

Re: Blocking malware URL lookup using BIND

2011-10-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 25/10/2011 10:03, babu dheen wrote: > We are seeing huge number of malware request going to malware domains > performed by some malware infected clients. > > All malware infected clients are trying to reach below URL . We would like > to know how we can block if any dns query come to > *

Re: Mixing Algorithms for DNSSEC

2011-10-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 15/10/2011 20:32, Mark Elkins wrote: > So what you are saying in practical terms is in order to migrate from > RSASHA1 to RSASHA256, wait for the next needed creation of a ZSK (which > cycle once a year) and then at exactly the same time start using > RSASHA256 on the KSK's (which cycle every mo

Re: changing ttl of mx record

2011-10-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 10/10/2011 15:42, enigmedia wrote: > Hi All: If I need to set a short TTL prior to an MX IP change, do I need to > modify the TTL of the MX record, or just the A record the MX points to? > (There's just a single A record for the MX). You want to drop the TTL on the RR where the data -- the RHS

Re: ZSK pre-publish

2011-10-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 03/10/2011 13:45, Torinthiel wrote: > On 2011-10-01 11:40, Matthew Seaman wrote: >> dnssec-signzone will grok all the built-in dates and do the right thing >> when you sign the zone. > BTW, how does dnssec-signzone behave when you pass -s option? Does it > take into a

Re: ZSK pre-publish

2011-10-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 01/10/2011 09:25, CT wrote: > >> I have a few static zones that I sign via script >> keydir = directory for both KSK and ZSK >> $zone = zone file >> /usr/local/sbin/dnssec-signzone -S -g -a -H 10 -3 $SALT -K keydir $zone >> >> >> Fetching KSK 4054/RSASHA256 from key repository. >> Fetching ZSK

Re: "if exists host-name" for IPv6 DDNS?

2011-09-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 23/09/2011 00:39, Joachim Tingvold wrote: > Or replace :: with _, '_' is an illegal character in hostnames in the DNS... Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: htt

Re: Delegation check failed

2011-09-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 20/09/2011 14:25, Lightner, Jeff wrote: > On going there and testing water.com domain I see: > Delegation > > · Nameserver dswadns1.water.com is listed for zone water.com without > address information. > > · Nameserver dswadns2.water.com is listed for zone water.com without >

Re: Problems with nic.it

2011-09-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 20/09/2011 08:20, Lucio Crusca wrote: > Hence I wonder if there existed any public DNS checker that could > check a DNS which is not the NS pointed server yet, http://dnscheck.iis.se/ has an 'undelegated domain test' Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.

Re: Weird IPv6 issue?

2011-09-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 11/09/2011 21:00, m...@smtp.fakessh.eu wrote: > I also think the creation of the reverse zone ipv6 > > i dont know how to IPv6 reverse zones work in very much the same way as IPv4 reverse zones. So, for an address 2001:8b0:151:1:e2cb:4eff:fe26:6481 you would generate the LHS of a PTR record l

Re: Bind time up.

2011-07-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 23/07/2011 09:22, Vbvbrj wrote: > How to tell BIND to not stop listening on cable disconnected adapters? Add to the options {} section of named.conf: interface-interval 0; Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard

Re: I can't resolve one domain: nhs.uk

2011-06-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
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Re: IPv4 & IPv6 named processes on a dual stack host

2011-05-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 24/05/2011 19:22, Timothy Stoddard wrote: > Has any one run into a issue with two named processes running on the same > host. We want to begin serving up DNS on our IPv6 address space and do not > want to duplicate each of our DNS servers. We have started two named > processes one with "-6" op

Re: strange queries in my DNS

2011-04-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 25/04/2011 13:30, Victor Hugo dos Santos wrote: > Yes.. I already readed about DNS amplifier attack.. but in > amplification attack, the query is about ".", but in my case, the > queries isn't by the "root", but for "unused type" No -- confusion of terms: '.' is the *root* of the DNS hiera

Re: strange queries in my DNS

2011-04-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 21/04/2011 19:54, Victor Hugo dos Santos wrote: > Hello masters. > > the last week I had a strange queries logged in my DNS. In this > momment I only block the IP (77.204.11.139) source and forguet of this > theme. > > but, today.. I have the same query registered in my logs and from > other s

Re: incorrect dns returned by public servers for our domain

2011-02-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 24/02/2011 04:14, Noel Butler wrote: > You can pretty much remove the entire statement now, as all /8's are > issued as of about two weeks ago. This works for me: lucid-nonsense:~/src/namedb:% cat acl-ipv4-bogons.conf // @(#) $Id: acl-ipv4-bogons.conf 800 2011-02-03 20:22:12Z matthew $ // // N

Re: can @ be CNAME?

2010-11-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 23/11/2010 08:07, Tech W. wrote: > --- On Tue, 23/11/10, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: >> From: Matus UHLAR - fantomas >>> can I set @ to a cname type? like: >>> >>> @ IN CNAME www.example.com. >> >> Certainly not. for a domain you have you need SOA and NS >> records, and CNAME >> is incom

Re: Reverse Configuration

2010-10-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 16/10/2010 21:48, Kevin Oberman wrote: > To be completely clear, unless there is special software on the client > to deal with PTRs, you really only want ONE PTR for each address. Most > standard network tools tend to assume only one PTR per address and some > get very confused when multiple PTR

Re: Protecting bind from DNS cache poisoning!!!

2010-08-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 08/08/2010 11:29:52, Shiva Raman wrote: >I am running Bind caching and bind authoritative servers with current > 9.7 version. I would like > to know the steps to be followed to protect bind from DNS Cache poisoning. > The bind DNS server > is running behind the firewall which allows onl

Re: zone syntax question

2010-07-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 24/07/2010 16:17:13, Joseph S D Yao wrote: > Quick, knee-jerk, which of these is > one day? > 86300 > 68300 > 863000 It's a trick question, right? Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard

Re: dnssec-lookaside auto and managed-keys-zone problem with certain views

2010-07-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 18/07/2010 17:58:15, Evan Hunt wrote: >> Is there a way of using dnssec-lookaside and forcing bind not to >> maintain a managed-keys-zone for certain views? > > Sure, just do it the old way, without "dnssec-lookaside auto". > Put these in the view statement: > > dnssec-lookaside . trus

dnssec-lookaside auto and managed-keys-zone problem with certain views

2010-07-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
Dear list, Is there a way of using dnssec-lookaside and forcing bind not to maintain a managed-keys-zone for certain views? Or allowing it to start up if the files are missing for some views? I have within my named.conf this view, designed to hide bind.version and so forth from the world at lar

Re: DNSSEC / DLV for 2001:8b0:151:1:e2cb:4eff:fe26:6481

2010-06-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/06/2010 18:49:44, Casey Deccio wrote: > This has been fixed. The problem had to do with establishing a canonical > ordering of RRs within an RRset for the purposes of verifying an RRSIG. > dnspython's default comparison operators don't follow ca

DNSSEC / DLV for 2001:8b0:151:1:e2cb:4eff:fe26:6481

2010-06-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm DNSSEC enabling the .ip6.arpa zone for my IPv6 allocation and registering it with dlv.isc.org. Using bind-9.7.0-p2 dnssec tools. Everything seems to be working well, but when I test using the Sandia Labs dnsviz.net tool I get inconsistent result

Re: IPv6 reverse zones advise

2010-05-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/05/2010 12:44:32, a.sm...@ukgrid.net wrote: > we will shortly start using IPv6 reverse DNS, and having never used it > before I thought Id ask those with some experience if they have any > words of wisdom before I make any horrible mistakes ;)

Re: Bind crashs sometimes.

2009-12-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
Cathy Almond wrote: If you're running a BIND 9,6,1~ variant (I don't recognise "bind96-9.6.1.2" as an ISC version string), the assert line number does not tally with the source code for bind9/lib/isc/unix/socket.c. That's the FreeBSD package name & version for bind-9.6.1-P2 but... That assert

$GENERATE and IPv6

2009-08-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
Is anyone out there using $GENERATE to create blocks of and PTR records for IPv6? Particularly PTR records? It seems easy enough to create records automatically: $ORIGIN infracaninophile.co.uk. $GENERATE 0-255 2001-8b0-151-1-240-0-1234-${0,0,x} 2001:8b0:151:1:240:0:1234:${0,0,x}