Re: which dns server to use ?

2003-04-09 Thread Markus Welsch
While I see that it may be useful to have zone data in an sql backend, I don't like the idea of plugging a mission-critical service such as a dns server directly to an sql database. A dns server has to be as simple as possible, with as few dependencies as possible. Serving zone data directly from

Re: which dns server to use ?

2003-04-09 Thread Markus Welsch
I use tinydns for a company that serves over one billion web hits per day (not visitors, hits, and no I'm not exaggerating). The authoritative nameservers serve between 100 and 300 queries/sec on each of five nameservers, for between 50 and 90 million queries answered per day. Hardware on those

Re: which dns server to use ?

2003-04-09 Thread Thomas Lamy
Oliver Hitz wrote: On 08 Apr 2003, Thomas Lamy wrote: I recently switched to mydns (http://mydns.bboy.net/). As all data is stored in a mysql (or pgsql) backend, it's easy to edit zones/resource records. And While I see that it may be useful to have zone data in an sql backend, I

Problems using Gateway/Routing

2003-04-09 Thread Tobias Kuhrmann
hey list! i've setup a linux router/firewall based on debian 3.0 kernel release 2.4.19 at one of our customers networks. the netfilter package (iptables) is used (rc. 1.2.6a). this box has a DSL connection to the internet. the problem is now, that the clients can't connect sometimes to the

Re: using spamassassin in an isp environment ?

2003-04-09 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Tuesday 08 April 2003 20:25, Markus Welsch wrote: [spamassassin] since it's written in perl it will be a huge performance decrease, right? The biggest problem with spamassassin is the startup delay until the interpreter is loaded and the perl program is compiled. Running with spamd/spamc

Re: using spamassassin in an isp environment ?

2003-04-09 Thread Tomàs Núñez Lirola
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi I've thought several times about using DNSRBLs, but I don't know nothing about them... Do you recommend them to me? Are they difficult to add to my sendmail? Any doc where I can get more info about them? Thanks in advance El Miércoles, 9 de

Re: using spamassassin in an isp environment ?

2003-04-09 Thread Robert Waldner
On Wed, 09 Apr 2003 11:42:48 +0200, =?iso-8859-1?q?Tom=E0s=20N=FA=F1ez=20Lirola I've thought several times about using DNSRBLs, but I don't know nothing ab= out=20 them... Do you recommend them to me? Are they difficult to add to my=20 sendmail? Any doc where I can get more info about them?

Re: using spamassassin in an isp environment ?

2003-04-09 Thread Tomàs Núñez Lirola
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Well... heh, I made a simple query to Google that lead me to (guess it) dnsrbl.com, where I found that using its lists is as simple as adding a line to sendmail.mc FEATURE(dnsbl,`spam.dnsrbl.net')dnl So having solved the question of how to use

Re: which dns server to use ?

2003-04-09 Thread Oliver Hitz
On 09 Apr 2003, Thomas Lamy wrote: - Three db-servers (2 in active-active replication, and a third running from the last daily db export) - the mysql connection procedure in mission critical programs (mydns, snmp gatherer) is hacked to try both main servers in r/w mode, and then the third

Re: which dns server to use ?

2003-04-09 Thread Markus Welsch
Interesting. I see you're prepared for the worst case :-) However, since I am somewhat lazy, I prefer to have all my services work with standard apt-get'able packages. This may also prevent possible security related problems. I am using the 'database-export-approach' to maintain the configuration

Re: using spamassassin in an isp environment ?

2003-04-09 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Wednesday 09 April 2003 11:42, Tomàs Núñez Lirola wrote: Hi I've thought several times about using DNSRBLs, but I don't know nothing about them... Do you recommend them to me? Are they difficult to add to my sendmail? Any doc where I can get more info about them? http://spews.org has a

Re: which dns server to use ?

2003-04-09 Thread Oliver Hitz
On 09 Apr 2003, Markus Welsch wrote: So you are using the approach I am currently working on. I'll be doing extensive error checking since ... sql server(s) not responding/no access, invalid data, etc and after the update i'll send out an email report with all the details. What kind of

Re: which dns server to use ?

2003-04-09 Thread Markus Welsch
What kind of invalid data? - You have to make sure that invalid data doesn't get into the database. There's no point in having a database otherwise. I didn't express myself very well ... meant more like corruption-checking (shouldn't happen but happend once afaik), etc. The language itself isn't

Re: which dns server to use ?

2003-04-09 Thread Stuart Krivis
--On Tuesday, April 08, 2003 5:42 PM +0200 Thomas Lamy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PowerDNS seems to be pretty decent. BIND is more sendmail then apache (3-5 years ago): most used DNS server software, bloated code (IMHO), and a remote exploit every now and then. Just because most of the internet

sendmail connection timeout problem

2003-04-09 Thread Michael Flaig
Hi there, i have a problem on my primary mail server. it runs debian woody and sendmail. it is forwarding mails with the mailertable feature to our customers mailservers. the customers are connected to our PoP via leased-lines. here the error from the mail.log Apr 9 15:06:11 mx1 sm-mta[2220]:

jail() for Linux ?

2003-04-09 Thread Marc Schchlin
Hi ! I developed a software (will be in 1-2 weeks available as opensource) for managing virtual Systems which are using the jail-functionality of FreeBSD - now I ask myself if the jail-functionality is also available for linux systems. jail() is a combination of the chroot()-functionality and

Re: jail() for Linux ?

2003-04-09 Thread Arend van Waart
Marc Schöchlin wrote: Hi ! I developed a software (will be in 1-2 weeks available as opensource) for managing virtual Systems which are using the jail-functionality of FreeBSD - now I ask myself if the jail-functionality is also available for linux systems. [snip] Does anybody know anything

Re: jail() for Linux ?

2003-04-09 Thread Russell Coker
On Thu, 10 Apr 2003 03:12, Marc Schöchlin wrote: I developed a software (will be in 1-2 weeks available as opensource) for managing virtual Systems which are using the jail-functionality of FreeBSD - now I ask myself if the jail-functionality is also available for linux systems. Does

Re: jail() for Linux ?

2003-04-09 Thread Sonny Kupka
Is this the same software? http://sourceforge.net/projects/jail/ http://www.gsyc.inf.uc3m.es/~assman/jail/index.html -- Sonny At 07:12 PM 4/9/2003 +0200, you wrote: Hi ! I developed a software (will be in 1-2 weeks available as opensource) for managing virtual Systems which are using the