Re: Moving DNS out of non-cooperative provider

2012-06-18 Thread Michael Graff
Eventually, if you have done the parent delegations (through where you register your zone) and have updated the new NS records to point only to the new spot, the old zone will only be used by that provider, and nowhere else. So, if com points to the new set of name servers, and example.com has

Re: OT: cached memory

2012-06-14 Thread Michael Graff
On Jun 13, 2012, at 5:02 PM, Dan Letkeman wrote: I understand the concept, as I have read many documents like that. I am more interested in a real world example of how much free memory for caching is recommended for an average server. Dan. It depends on many things, but what I'd do to

Re: Recommended value for max-cache-size for cache-only shared hosts..

2012-06-01 Thread Michael Graff
have 8GB RAM. I don't know if its better to start with 1GB (1/8th of RAM)? thanks blr On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 8:17 PM, Michael Graff mgr...@isc.org wrote: Hmm, I don't quite think this is a good idea. BIND 9 (since 9.5) manages memory quite well, but it will happily consume all you have

Re: Recommended value for max-cache-size for cache-only shared hosts..

2012-05-31 Thread Michael Graff
Hmm, I don't quite think this is a good idea. BIND 9 (since 9.5) manages memory quite well, but it will happily consume all you have and go into swap. I'd set it high enough (on a dedicated machine) to use plenty of RAM, but low enough to not cause other OS components to swap out or BIND

Re: random-device purpose in DNSSEC

2012-05-10 Thread Michael Graff
Some signature methods require this, some do not. RSA should not (in general) but RSA encryption in practice may. Signing is different, in that you know both halves (encrypted and cleartext) so it should not require padding. I think DSA does require randomness in signing. --Michael On May

Re: More than 4k TXT entries

2012-02-29 Thread Michael Graff
more than 4k will exceed the default settings for EDNS0 UDP responses. If you dig @ your server, with +tcp, do you get a reply? If not, perhaps you are not allowing TCP connections to port 53? What error you are getting may be of help. --Michael On Feb 29, 2012, at 1:20 PM, Darvin Denmian

Re: More than 4k TXT entries

2012-02-29 Thread Michael Graff
to help me :) Regards! On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Michael Graff mgr...@isc.org wrote: more than 4k will exceed the default settings for EDNS0 UDP responses. If you dig @ your server, with +tcp, do you get a reply? If not, perhaps you are not allowing TCP connections to port 53

Re: bind dies with assertion failure

2012-02-14 Thread Michael Graff
It is a known issue, and is indeed a bug. We're working on it already, so stay tuned. --Michael On Feb 14, 2012, at 12:44 PM, Alex wrote: Hi, I have a fedora16 x86_64 box and named keeps dying with an assertion failure: 14-Feb-2012 13:24:41.137 general: critical: rbtdb.c:1619:

Re: Bind 9.9rc2 notification gone wild

2012-02-01 Thread Michael Graff
Key management (and how BIND 9 in the form of named handles issues like this) is likely too large a topic to address before 9.9.0 is out. I don't think the management has gotten worse from 9.8 to 9.9 though. We're hoping to make key management the next major focus area in bind 9, now that we

BIND 9.9.0 RC2 -- call for testing

2012-01-31 Thread Michael Graff
As Evan mentioned earlier, we are coming close to releasing a final BIND 9.9.0. It's scheduled to go to our Forum members on the 7th of February and as a public release about a week later. Some inline signing defects were resolved earlier this week, and we've released 9.9.0RC2. This release

Re: Bind9 Design Document

2012-01-26 Thread Michael Graff
This is one of the reasons we are doing things differently in BIND 10. BIND 9 had some early stuff (under doc directory) but it was never fully fleshed out. --Michael On Jan 26, 2012, at 10:58 AM, Cong Guo wrote: Hello, How can I get the design documents of Bind9, like the ones for

Re: DNSSEC made simple, is this possible?

2012-01-11 Thread Michael Graff
You want BIND 9.9 (currently 9.9.0rc1) with inline signing. This will do exactly what you want, I think. --Michael On Jan 11, 2012, at 9:31 AM, Howard Leadmon wrote: OK, in an attempt to start using DNSSEC over here, I suppose I bit myself in the backside, and even spending some time

Re: DNSSEC made simple, is this possible?

2012-01-11 Thread Michael Graff
ISC is also, by pure luck, offering a web seminar on inline signing in BIND 9.9 today. While the first one starts in 15 minutes as I write this message, there are a total of three sessions today. Head on over to http://www.isc.org/webinar to find out the times and information on how to join.

Re: Botnet Malware issue on bind BIND 9.7.1-P2

2011-12-05 Thread Michael Graff
I see many valid IP addresses in your list. But that said, are the responses going back large individually, or is it the number of them that is large? If you think this is attempting to crash the server with a single large answer, that's different than if your server is getting a lot of

Re: nanny (was Re: bind-9.8.1: INSIST(! dns_rdataset_isassociated(sigrdataset)) failed)

2011-12-05 Thread Michael Graff
On Nov 18, 2011, at 4:44 AM, G.W. Haywood wrote: Never in several machine decades have I had to do anything like that for BIND. The fact that people are even talking about it is of some concern to me. Twice in approximately the last month I have had one particular server go down for no

Re: dnssec-keygen not responding

2011-12-01 Thread Michael Graff
believe the daemon checks once every 100ms or so. --Michael On Dec 1, 2011, at 5:17 AM, Jan-Piet Mens wrote: On Wed Nov 30 2011 at 20:45:30 CET, Michael Graff wrote: For my VM environment, I bought a USB random source, and share it across the VMs with a little daemon I wrote. Would you

Re: Choosing max-journal-size

2011-11-30 Thread Michael Graff
On Nov 30, 2011, at 4:09 AM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 11/29/2011 11:33 PM, Chris Thompson wrote: I wonder if an external tool to trim the journal would be an option? You'd need a timestamp on records (relying on the RRSIGs mean it only works for signed). Not sure about the locking

Re: dnssec-keygen not responding

2011-11-30 Thread Michael Graff
On Nov 30, 2011, at 3:01 AM, Torsten Segner wrote: In RHEL there is a RPM package called unuran. It's a random number generator daemon using either a piece of hardware or /dev/urandom as source. Running this will provide enough entropy to create lots of keys. I'd be rather wary of keys

Re: found a bug in bind9.7.3

2011-11-30 Thread Michael Graff
Hello 张海阔, I've opened a bug ticket for this one. I don't know that bind-users is a good place to continue discussions, but consider perhaps bind-workers (which is more for coders). I'll send you a link to the bug in separate message. --Michael On Nov 30, 2011, at 6:09 AM, 张海阔 wrote:

Re: OT: Bind 9.9.0B1 Inline-Signing Question

2011-11-10 Thread Michael Graff
Do you see that each time named starts or just on the first load of the zone? What happens if you send a query to the server with dig +dnssec? On Nov 10, 2011, at 14:23, McConville, Kevin kmcconvi...@albany.edu wrote: I know that this isn’t the forum for betas, which is why I put off-topic

Re: Securing zone transfer and DDNS

2011-11-07 Thread Michael Graff
Are you saying you cannot compile from source, or that you must use the vendor supplied version of bind? On Nov 7, 2011, at 10:04, Aleksander Kurczyk aleksanderkurc...@o2.pl wrote: I'm using Mac OS X 10.4.11 Tiger on G4 400 MHz PPC Mac and BIND 9.7.4 is the last version that I'm able to use.

Re: inline-signing

2011-09-30 Thread Michael Graff
I opened a ticket on Tony's behalf so we can track the crash problem and the other defects he mentioned. As I told him there, the master functionality is still a work in progress, and the code's not there yet. Soon. Thank you Tony for giving this a try as an alpha! Your time is appreciated.

Re: NXDOMAIN redirection in BIND 9.9

2011-09-29 Thread Michael Graff
On Sep 29, 2011, at 4:06 PM, Bill Owens wrote: I've obviously been asleep and not following along with the announcements of new features in BIND 9.9 until today I'm happy you read it, and hope to see you at the forum/customer webinar next week! I'll be speaking, and will bring my fireproof

Re: CNAME or A record?

2011-09-28 Thread Michael Graff
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2011-09-28 9:36 AM, feralert wrote: Thanks Jeff, But I really only wrote that as an example :) . The real question is what is best or what is recommended, two A RR (one for domain, one for www) or a single A RR for domain and a CNAME RR for

Re: faster fail-over between multiple masters

2011-08-30 Thread Michael Graff
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2011-08-30 12:06 PM, Klaus Darilion wrote: Unfortunately I fail to find the options where I can configure the number of retransmissions, timeouts and number of transactions - please give me some hints. I don't believe there are external knobs

Re: DNSSEC : once correct, always correct ?

2011-08-17 Thread Michael Graff
Yes. It is correct behavior. There is no revoke method for a publisher. I don't think adding one would be wise. --Michael (from an iPhone) On Aug 17, 2011, at 7:18, Marc Lampo marc.la...@eurid.eu wrote: Hello, Experimenting with key roll-over timing conditions, with a Bind 9.7.3

Re: Patching bind for additional stats - any tips?

2011-07-19 Thread Michael Graff
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am very interested in hearing what you are looking for. I have some thoughts about performance measurements, mostly to answer the age-old question, Are my servers working well? Would you release the patches, and if so, would you be willing to work

Re: bind9.xsl vs. /bind9.xsl

2011-07-14 Thread Michael Graff
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2011-07-14 2:28 PM, Chris Thompson wrote: So is there anything that could go wrong if the style sheet reference *was* relative rather than absolute? Not that I can see. It's probably that we never considered that use case. Send in a bug

Re: better performance with 32 bit ! why?

2011-06-29 Thread Michael Graff
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/29/11 8:19 AM, Eivind Olsen wrote: Really? I thought you said the 64 bit server had a CPU with 1.6GHz cores, and the 32 bit server had 2.33GHz cores? Benchmarking on different machine types, even if they are identical speed, can be affected by

Large number of small zones in BIND? We have something for you to try.

2011-06-29 Thread Michael Graff
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 We've been working on the start-up time of BIND 9, when many many zones are configured. By many, I mean in the 10k to 1m range. If you are someone who has a large number of zones loaded into BIND 9, and would like to try out some test code to see if

Re: better performance with 32 bit ! why?

2011-06-29 Thread Michael Graff
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/29/11 9:08 AM, Sven Eschenberg wrote: Maybe some bind developer can shed a light on this: Does bind use epoll()? AIO (as in Posix RT extensions) BIND 9 uses epoll() I believe, but AFAIK does not touch AIO. I've not touched that code

Re: better performance with 32 bit ! why?

2011-06-29 Thread Michael Graff
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/29/11 9:16 AM, iharrathi@orange-ftgroup.com wrote: Do i have to use bind compiled and running on 32 bit server to have better performance rather than bind compiled and running on 64 bit server? No matter what, what gets you the best

Re: better performance with 32 bit ! why?

2011-06-29 Thread Michael Graff
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/29/11 3:00 PM, Sven Eschenberg wrote: One thing that just popped up my mind: Does it increase performance, when you, let's say, bind multiple IPs to the same NIC and make bind listen to all of those IPs, while of course taking care to fix the

Re: better performance with 32 bit ! why?

2011-06-29 Thread Michael Graff
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/29/11 4:28 PM, Sven Eschenberg wrote: P.S.: If all parts of bind were optimized towards multicore processing and the pattern of queries fits, yes, then the 8 core machine could probably outrun the 4 core machine, even when having a slower