Re: securing bind in todays hostile environment

2020-01-22 Thread Tony Finch
Grant Taylor via bind-users wrote: > On 1/20/20 9:06 AM, N. Max Pierson wrote: > > > I was not aware there was anything built in that would let you > > add/remove/change the zone itself from the master. > > Yes, Catalog Zones. I think it's only a few years old. Catalog zones are for automatic co

Re: securing bind in todays hostile environment

2020-01-21 Thread Grant Taylor via bind-users
On 1/20/20 9:06 AM, N. Max Pierson wrote: My terminology seems to be the issue here, so let me try and rephrase/elaborate : ) ;-) I was not aware there was anything built in that would let you add/remove/change the zone itself from the master. Yes, Catalog Zones. I think it's only a few ye

Re: securing bind in todays hostile environment

2020-01-20 Thread N. Max Pierson
Ah, allow me to apologize then. Since I did not see any mention as to why you possibly didn’t think ansible would serve us well for this job I had wrongly assumed you to had maybe demo’d or just got handed the task of automating in your organization and didn’t have time to research or test it be

Re: securing bind in todays hostile environment

2020-01-20 Thread N. Max Pierson
My terminology seems to be the issue here, so let me try and rephrase/elaborate : ) > I'm sure that you can get Ansible to add / remove / modify the list of zones > on the slave servers. But is that the best solution when BIND has something > built in for doing the same thing? I was not awar

Re: securing bind in todays hostile environment

2020-01-19 Thread John W. Blue
Since it sounds like you have not had much experience with, I urge you to check it out should you have anything in your environment that could benefit from automation. Simply telling someone to chunk it and not have any experience with it is a little misguided IMO. We pay multiple different t

Re: securing bind in todays hostile environment

2020-01-19 Thread Grant Taylor via bind-users
On 1/19/20 4:01 AM, N. Max Pierson wrote: I honestly couldn’t tell you either way as I have not even begun to start to dive into DNSSEC. I can recommend the following book from Michael W. Lucas / @mwlauthor and say that it provides a good, actionable, introduction to DNSSEC. Link - DNSSEC Ma

Re: securing bind in todays hostile environment

2020-01-19 Thread Grant Taylor via bind-users
On 1/19/20 3:25 AM, N. Max Pierson wrote: Hi Grant, Hi, I should have been a little more descriptive in the scenario by giving the purpose of these name servers. They are basically being deployed as a managed DNS service that we offer. We are a MSP for the most part and the DNS infrastructu

Re: securing bind in todays hostile environment

2020-01-19 Thread N. Max Pierson
you still want to live in ansible I would suggest > that you add another NIC to each server and assume the IPs of the old servers > so you dont bring cruft forward into your new world order.) > > > > John > > Sent from Nine <http://www.9folders.com/> > From:

Re: securing bind in todays hostile environment

2020-01-19 Thread N. Max Pierson
Hi Grant, A couple of things …. I should have been a little more descriptive in the scenario by giving the purpose of these name servers. They are basically being deployed as a managed DNS service that we offer. We are a MSP for the most part and the DNS infrastructure was not being very well

Re: securing bind in todays hostile environment

2020-01-18 Thread John W. Blue
http://www.9folders.com/> From: "N. Max Pierson" Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2020 8:08 AM To: bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: securing bind in todays hostile environment Hi List, First off, I should note that I am a novice with administering Bind, so please bear with me. We a

Re: securing bind in todays hostile environment

2020-01-18 Thread Grant Taylor via bind-users
On 1/18/20 7:06 AM, N. Max Pierson wrote: Hi List, Hi M, First off, I should note that I am a novice with administering Bind, so please bear with me. We all started somewhere. Hopefully we all continue to learn new things. ;-) We are looking to be more pro-active and security minded in

securing bind in todays hostile environment

2020-01-18 Thread N. Max Pierson
Hi List, First off, I should note that I am a novice with administering Bind, so please bear with me. We are looking to be more pro-active and security minded in our network in general and while we are getting ready to completely replace/upgrade our current instances of Bind, I would like to