Re: Mother board compatibility and CF card usage as main storage device for small DNS server

2010-10-01 Thread Kaya Saman
Many thanks for the responses! On 01/10/2010 02:52, Paul Wootton wrote: On 09/30/10 14:54, Kaya Saman wrote: On 30/09/2010 17:54, Brent Bloxam wrote: Kaya Saman wrote: From what you mention it sounds like a bad idea as the system disk will have many R/W's going through it it seems as /tmp

Mother board compatibility and CF card usage as main storage device for small DNS server

2010-09-30 Thread Kaya Saman
Hi, I'm planning on using FreeBSD 8.0 x64 RELEASE edition for a small primary/secondary DNS server setup. The system will run Bind9 and have some zone files and views for the few people I host for. I am considering using a dual Atom system board with 2GB RAM and for storage was thinking

Re: Mother board compatibility and CF card usage as main storage device for small DNS server

2010-09-30 Thread Brian A. Seklecki (CFI NOC)
On 9/30/2010 4:11 AM, Kaya Saman wrote: I mean for a DNS server (all be it a small one) is it wise to use compact flash as storage?? For our GSLB DNS Slaves, we boot embedded/low power (or even VMs these days) systems with CF images off of flash, keep a shadow copy of /etc around

Re: Mother board compatibility and CF card usage as main storage device for small DNS server

2010-09-30 Thread Kaya Saman
Thanks very much Brian: On 30/09/2010 17:02, Brian A. Seklecki (CFI NOC) wrote: On 9/30/2010 4:11 AM, Kaya Saman wrote: I mean for a DNS server (all be it a small one) is it wise to use compact flash as storage?? For our GSLB DNS Slaves, we boot embedded/low power (or even VMs these days

Re: Mother board compatibility and CF card usage as main storage device for small DNS server

2010-09-30 Thread Kaya Saman
On 30/09/2010 17:54, Brent Bloxam wrote: Kaya Saman wrote: From what you mention it sounds like a bad idea as the system disk will have many R/W's going through it it seems as /tmp and Swap get written to all the time. You can skip swap altogether and use MFS (memory filesystem) like

Re: Mother board compatibility and CF card usage as main storage device for small DNS server

2010-09-30 Thread Brent Bloxam
Kaya Saman wrote: From what you mention it sounds like a bad idea as the system disk will have many R/W's going through it it seems as /tmp and Swap get written to all the time. You can skip swap altogether and use MFS (memory filesystem) like Brian mentioned for other high write

Re: Mother board compatibility and CF card usage as main storage device for small DNS server

2010-09-30 Thread Nathan Vidican
MFS == memory filesystem; aka ram-disk. The problem being that on reboot, MFS looses all its contents, therefore practices like storing the 'startup' state for a filesystem in an archive (tar file works well) and mounting/copying on startup works well. Conversely, if you need to modify that

Re: Mother board compatibility and CF card usage as main storage device for small DNS server

2010-09-30 Thread Paul Wootton
On 09/30/10 14:54, Kaya Saman wrote: On 30/09/2010 17:54, Brent Bloxam wrote: Kaya Saman wrote: From what you mention it sounds like a bad idea as the system disk will have many R/W's going through it it seems as /tmp and Swap get written to all the time. You can skip swap altogether

Possible to run 2 instances of Bind DNS server in jails??

2010-01-10 Thread Kaya Saman
Hi, I'm just reading through a thread right now on a discussion or debate whether to ports Solaris Zones to FreeBSD. My main Google search criteria was basically that I wanted to know if FreeBSD had something similar. In this discussion it was mentioned that FreeBSD Jails where the sudo

Re: Possible to run 2 instances of Bind DNS server in jails??

2010-01-10 Thread Vince Hoffman
The only bit I'm not certain on is dedicating a nic to a jail (more because I havent tried than because I believe it cant be done, I'd expect that the network stack virtualization in 8+ should allow this.) You can most definately run seperate instances of applications in jails. I'd recomend

Re: Possible to run 2 instances of Bind DNS server in jails??

2010-01-10 Thread Kaya Saman
Vince Hoffman wrote: The only bit I'm not certain on is dedicating a nic to a jail (more because I havent tried than because I believe it cant be done, I'd expect that the network stack virtualization in 8+ should allow this.) You can most definately run seperate instances of applications in

Re: DNS server Problem

2008-04-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Ruel Luchavez wrote: Hi, I have BIND DNS Server in my freebsd, i keep on searching in google on how to restart it? is there a command to restart it like the squid and dhcp? or there is no command for it? That is somewhat different to what

RE: DNS server Problem

2008-04-14 Thread John Clement
I have BIND DNS Server in my freebsd, i keep on searching in google on how to restart it? is there a command to restart it like the squid and dhcp? or there is no command for it? You might like to try # rndc reload Cheers Thanks in advanced

Re: DNS server Problem

2008-04-14 Thread Mel
On Monday 14 April 2008 11:02:43 Ruel Luchavez wrote: I have BIND DNS Server in my freebsd, i keep on searching in google on how to restart it? is there a command to restart it like the squid and dhcp? or there is no command for it? If you start reading here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc

DNS server Problem

2008-04-14 Thread Ruel Luchavez
Hi, I have BIND DNS Server in my freebsd, i keep on searching in google on how to restart it? is there a command to restart it like the squid and dhcp? or there is no command for it? Thanks in advanced.. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: DNS server Problem

2008-04-14 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have BIND DNS Server in my freebsd, i keep on searching in google on how to restart it? /etc/rc.d/named restart is there a command to restart it like the squid and dhcp? or there is no command for it? Thanks in advanced.. ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Question regarding mail and dns server on Alix/Soekris?

2008-04-11 Thread David Duong
Luke Dean wrote: On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, David Duong wrote: I'm planning to redoing my home network. I currently have one server (Opteron 170) that is currently a NAS, Email, and DNS server (btw, the main OS is FreeBSD). I was thinking of purchasing an Alix2c3/Soekris 5501 and use

Re: Question regarding mail and dns server on Alix/Soekris?

2008-04-09 Thread Luke Dean
On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, David Duong wrote: I'm planning to redoing my home network. I currently have one server (Opteron 170) that is currently a NAS, Email, and DNS server (btw, the main OS is FreeBSD). I was thinking of purchasing an Alix2c3/Soekris 5501 and use it as a Email + DNS server

Question regarding mail and dns server on Alix/Soekris?

2008-04-07 Thread David Duong
Hello everyone! I'm planning to redoing my home network. I currently have one server (Opteron 170) that is currently a NAS, Email, and DNS server (btw, the main OS is FreeBSD). I was thinking of purchasing an Alix2c3/Soekris 5501 and use it as a Email + DNS server. Then dedicate my main

Re: is is able to setting up DNS server reverse lookup with DynamicIP?

2007-07-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jul 22, 2007, at 9:04 PM, Olivier Nicole wrote: With some delay, several answers together. Very good. :-) For the example I gave, I am of course authoritative. Are you? Depending on which servers I query, I either get an NXDOMAIN, an answer with no authoritative nameservers listed, or

Re: is is able to setting up DNS server reverse lookup with DynamicIP?

2007-07-22 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi Chuck, With some delay, several answers together. For the example I gave, I am of course authoritative. Are you? Depending on which servers I query, I either get an NXDOMAIN, an answer with no authoritative nameservers listed, or the results you've shown. That implies that there is

Re: is is able to setting up DNS server reverse lookup with DynamicIP?

2007-07-16 Thread Olivier Nicole
I'm using dynamicDNS, so I will able to specify the forward *AND* reverse lookups? Yes. No, nobody else is going to see the results your local nameserver sends since it isn't authoritative for the domains, and the delegation for the IP block isn't going to point to your server but

Re: is is able to setting up DNS server reverse lookup with DynamicIP?

2007-07-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jul 15, 2007, at 11:07 PM, Olivier Nicole wrote: No, nobody else is going to see the results your local nameserver sends since it isn't authoritative for the domains, and the delegation for the IP block isn't going to point to your server but to the actual nameserver. Take a look at what

Re: is is able to setting up DNS server reverse lookup with DynamicIP?

2007-07-13 Thread vuthecuong
. You cannot have dynamic DNS working alone (well I think so). Plus the DNS server that holds dynamic reccords should be at a fixed IP address (I never heard of a DNS server on a machine with dynamic IP, that sounds way to unstable to me). Olivier

Re: is is able to setting up DNS server reverse lookup with DynamicIP?

2007-07-13 Thread Olivier Nicole
I understand your problem. dyndns.com is taking care of the forward dynamic DNS for you. Now who is in charge of the reverse DNS for 58.187.106.120 (your current IP)? I beleive it is FPT. So FPT should upgrade its own reverse DNS every time it gives an IP to your server. Right now if I make a

Re: is is able to setting up DNS server reverse lookup with DynamicIP?

2007-07-13 Thread Olivier Nicole
But my postfix only can receive mails from freebsd-questions mailing list, it can not send mail to this. There is another thing you have to consider. As it is explained in http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?p=265093#post265093 your dynamic IP has been black listed (the IP was used

Re: is is able to setting up DNS server reverse lookup with DynamicIP?

2007-07-13 Thread J65nko
On 7/13/07, Olivier Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I understand your problem. dyndns.com is taking care of the forward dynamic DNS for you. Now who is in charge of the reverse DNS for 58.187.106.120 (your current IP)? I beleive it is FPT. So FPT should upgrade its own reverse DNS every time

Re: is is able to setting up DNS server reverse lookup with DynamicIP?

2007-07-13 Thread vuthecuong
Olivier Nicole wrote: But my postfix only can receive mails from freebsd-questions mailing list, it can not send mail to this. There is another thing you have to consider. As it is explained in http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?p=265093#post265093 your dynamic IP has been

Re: is is able to setting up DNS server reverse lookup with DynamicIP?

2007-07-13 Thread Steve Bertrand
vuthecuong wrote: Olivier Nicole wrote: But my postfix only can receive mails from freebsd-questions mailing list, it can not send mail to this. There is another thing you have to consider. As it is explained in http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?p=265093#post265093 your

Re: is is able to setting up DNS server reverse lookup with DynamicIP?

2007-07-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jul 12, 2007, at 10:09 PM, vuthecuong wrote: I just confirm only: I'm using dynamicDNS, so I will able to specify the forward *AND* reverse lookups? No. Reverse lookups are controlled by whoever owns the IP delegation for the netblock in question, and they are not going to configure

Re: is is able to setting up DNS server reverse lookup with DynamicIP?

2007-07-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jul 12, 2007, at 10:36 PM, Olivier Nicole wrote: I'm using dynamicDNS, so I will able to specify the forward *AND* reverse lookups? Yes. No, nobody else is going to see the results your local nameserver sends since it isn't authoritative for the domains, and the delegation for the IP

Re: is is able to setting up DNS server reverse lookup with DynamicIP?

2007-07-13 Thread Dan Casey
Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jul 12, 2007, at 10:09 PM, vuthecuong wrote: I just confirm only: I'm using dynamicDNS, so I will able to specify the forward *AND* reverse lookups? No. Reverse lookups are controlled by whoever owns the IP delegation for the netblock in question, and they are not

Re: is is able to setting up DNS server reverse lookup with DynamicIP?

2007-07-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jul 13, 2007, at 10:44 AM, Dan Casey wrote: I'm using dynamicDNS, so I will able to specify the forward *AND* reverse lookups? No. Reverse lookups are controlled by whoever owns the IP delegation for the netblock in question, and they are not going to configure PTR records for dynamic IPs.

Re: is is able to setting up DNS server reverse lookup with DynamicIP?

2007-07-13 Thread Steve Bertrand
Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jul 13, 2007, at 10:44 AM, Dan Casey wrote: I'm using dynamicDNS, so I will able to specify the forward *AND* reverse lookups? No. Reverse lookups are controlled by whoever owns the IP delegation for the netblock in question, and they are not going to configure PTR

is is able to setting up DNS server reverse lookup with DynamicIP?

2007-07-12 Thread vuthecuong
I just confirm only: I'm using dynamicDNS, so I will able to specify the forward *AND* reverse lookups? Tnx ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: is is able to setting up DNS server reverse lookup with DynamicIP?

2007-07-12 Thread Olivier Nicole
the dynamic IP ? Dynamic DNS only works with DHCP: DCHP gives and IP to a machine and then it informes DNS that it has given that IP and that now the DNS should update its synamic tables accordingly. You cannot have dynamic DNS working alone (well I think so). Plus the DNS server that holds dynamic

Re: is is able to setting up DNS server reverse lookup with DynamicIP?

2007-07-12 Thread vuthecuong
Hi Olivier Nicole Tnx for ur quick response. I'm very very new to both DNS and Freebsd. Maybe I'm stupid because I already spent 3 days creating my zone file and reverse file but I still can not sussefull. I'm running FreeBSD 6.2, I have DynamicIP: www.thecuong.gotdns.com. Could you help me to

Re: is is able to setting up DNS server reverse lookup with DynamicIP?

2007-07-12 Thread Olivier Nicole
I'm using dynamicDNS, so I will able to specify the forward *AND* reverse lookups? Yes. Forward DNS lookup: (alrw17.desktops.cs.ait.ac.th is dynamic DNS) banyanon57: dig alrw17.desktops.cs.ait.ac.th ; DiG 9.3.1 alrw17.desktops.cs.ait.ac.th ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;;

Re: how to know what DNS server is being used

2007-01-22 Thread patrick
On 10/28/06, Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On recent FreeBSD, the resolver actually iterates through the listed nameserver lines in order, sending the query out to each in turn until it gets a response. It used to be that the resolver would wait for the full 30s DNS timeout before

Re: how to know what DNS server is being used

2007-01-22 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 22), patrick said: On 10/28/06, Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On recent FreeBSD, the resolver actually iterates through the listed nameserver lines in order, sending the query out to each in turn until it gets a response. It used to be that the resolver

Re: how to know what DNS server is being used

2007-01-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
patrick wrote: On 10/28/06, Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On recent FreeBSD, the resolver actually iterates through the listed nameserver lines in order, sending the query out to each in turn until it gets a response. It used to be that the resolver would wait for the full 30s

Re: how to know what DNS server is being used

2006-10-28 Thread Robert Huff
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes: On my registrars site I have two DNS servers listing. How would I know that 1) both are working. 2) which one is being used. For #2, do you mean by the world at large? Which one is being used when people look up your domain and hosts in your

Re: how to know what DNS server is being used

2006-10-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
from all of the queried servers. Means that if your first listed DNS server is down, users don't notice the delay before the second server is queried. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard

RE: how to know what DNS server is being used

2006-10-28 Thread Steve Bertrand
On my registrars site I have two DNS servers listing. How would I know that 1) both are working. 2) which one is being used. 1) http://dnsreport.com 2) # tcpdump -n -i iface | grep .53 | grep domain.com (where domain.com == the domain I want to find out if the server is answering for)

how to know what DNS server is being used

2006-10-27 Thread David Banning
On my registrars site I have two DNS servers listing. How would I know that 1) both are working. 2) which one is being used. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: how to know what DNS server is being used

2006-10-27 Thread Lane
On Friday 27 October 2006 21:56, David Banning wrote: On my registrars site I have two DNS servers listing. How would I know that 1) both are working. 2) which one is being used. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: how to know what DNS server is being used

2006-10-27 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 10:56:26PM -0400, David Banning wrote: On my registrars site I have two DNS servers listing. How would I know that 1) both are working. 2) which one is being used. 1) dig @dns.server your.host.name 2) Dunno. -- Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to know what DNS server is being used

2006-10-27 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Oct 27, 2006, at 8:56 PM, David Banning wrote: On my registrars site I have two DNS servers listing. How would I know that 1) both are working. 2) which one is being used. For #2, do you mean by the world at large? Which one is being used when people look up your domain and hosts in

how to setup DNS server and making sub-domains in DSL server

2005-11-06 Thread Edwin D. Vinas
. These are my questions: 1) Is it correct that I only need to register or pay for the main domain? 2) Is it correct that through my local DNS server, I can add sub hosts (sub1 to sub3) without anymore registering those sub domains and pay for them in my main domain provider? 3) Provided that I already

Re: how to setup DNS server and making sub-domains in DSL server

2005-11-06 Thread Andrew P.
with my Apache virtual hosting in one single FreeBSD machine. These are my questions: 1) Is it correct that I only need to register or pay for the main domain? Yep. 2) Is it correct that through my local DNS server, I can add sub hosts (sub1 to sub3) without anymore registering those sub

Re: how to setup DNS server and making sub-domains in DSL server

2005-11-06 Thread Paul Waring
in conjunction with a web hosting package or something (123-reg.co.uk will definitely work as I use them for a similar setup to the one you describe). 2) Is it correct that through my local DNS server, I can add sub hosts (sub1 to sub3) without anymore registering those sub domains and pay for them in my

Re: how to setup DNS server and making sub-domains in DSL server

2005-11-06 Thread Chris
in one single FreeBSD machine. These are my questions: 1) Is it correct that I only need to register or pay for the main domain? 2) Is it correct that through my local DNS server, I can add sub hosts (sub1 to sub3) without anymore registering those sub domains and pay for them in my main domain

Re: how to setup DNS server and making sub-domains in DSL server

2005-11-06 Thread Paul Waring
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 02:01:00PM -0600, Chris wrote: Your fisrt and hardest roadblock will be getting your provider to allow YOU to be authoritive for the IP or IP's you use. That's not necessary - I host the DNS, web sites and mail for a dozen different domains off an IP address for which I

Re: how to setup DNS server and making sub-domains in DSL server

2005-11-06 Thread Chris
Paul Waring wrote: On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 02:01:00PM -0600, Chris wrote: Your fisrt and hardest roadblock will be getting your provider to allow YOU to be authoritive for the IP or IP's you use. That's not necessary - I host the DNS, web sites and mail for a dozen different domains off

Re: how to setup DNS server and making sub-domains in DSL server

2005-11-06 Thread Paul Waring
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 04:41:06PM -0600, Chris wrote: It may not be necessary - but to do it right... I for one like to have mu IP's resolve both forward and reverse. It's just professional looking as a whole. I like to have my IPs resolve both ways too, but try finding an ISP who will either

Re: how to setup DNS server and making sub-domains in DSL server

2005-11-06 Thread Eric F Crist
On Nov 6, 2005, at 4:45 PM, Paul Waring wrote: On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 04:41:06PM -0600, Chris wrote: It may not be necessary - but to do it right... I for one like to have mu IP's resolve both forward and reverse. It's just professional looking as a whole. I like to have my IPs resolve

Re: how to setup DNS server and making sub-domains in DSL server

2005-11-06 Thread Paul Waring
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 06:22:58PM -0600, Eric F Crist wrote: Actually, my ISP, ipHouse.net is one who's willing to configure reverse DNS for you. Qwest Communications is another one who'll setup DNS for you, and they're HUGE. If you choose to go with ipHouse, tell them I sent you --

telnetting/netcatting into a DNS server?

2005-10-25 Thread Mohan Singh
Whenever I need to test a mail/ssh/web server, I usually just telnet or nc into the appropriate port, i.e.: $ echo GET / |nc -v yahoo.com 80 $ nc -v localhost 22 Connection to localhost 22 port [tcp/ssh] succeeded! SSH-1.99-OpenSSH_4.2 How would I connect to a nameserver and talk

Re: telnetting/netcatting into a DNS server?

2005-10-25 Thread Igor Robul
Mohan Singh wrote: Whenever I need to test a mail/ssh/web server, I usually just telnet or nc into the appropriate port, i.e.: $ echo GET / |nc -v yahoo.com 80 $ nc -v localhost 22 Connection to localhost 22 port [tcp/ssh] succeeded! SSH-1.99-OpenSSH_4.2 How would I connect to a

Re: telnetting/netcatting into a DNS server?

2005-10-25 Thread Tim Erlin
Mohan Singh wrote: How would I connect to a nameserver and talk to it so I can know it is working? I get as far as connecting to the port, but I don't know how to make it send back anything meaningful. You could use the 'dig' command: dig @ip a yahoo.com Or you could use 'nmap' with a -sV

Re: telnetting/netcatting into a DNS server?

2005-10-25 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/25/05, Mohan Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whenever I need to test a mail/ssh/web server, I usually just telnet or nc into the appropriate port, i.e.: $ echo GET / |nc -v yahoo.com 80 $ nc -v localhost 22 Connection to localhost 22 port [tcp/ssh] succeeded!

Re: telnetting/netcatting into a DNS server?

2005-10-25 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/25/05, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/25/05, Mohan Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whenever I need to test a mail/ssh/web server, I usually just telnet or nc into the appropriate port, i.e.: $ echo GET / |nc -v yahoo.com 80 $ nc -v localhost 22 Connection to

Re: telnetting/netcatting into a DNS server?

2005-10-25 Thread Mohan Singh
On 10/25/05, Mohan Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How would I connect to a nameserver and talk to it so I can know it is working? I get as far as connecting to the port, but I don't know how to make it send back anything meaningful. Thanks to all who replied. The best answer I got came from

Re: DNS server on firewall

2005-10-21 Thread Eric F Crist
on the firewall, but I'm thinking since the DNS is going to be chrooted, it would be ok, no ? What do you think ? Thank you ! You're better off not installing and running a DNS server on your firewall. I would recommend you simply turn your new machine into your primary DNS server and ask/pay someone

DNS server on firewall

2005-10-21 Thread kilim
Hi, I'm getting a second machine next week and was wondering if the following settup would be ok: 1st machine pf + NAT and also primary DNS 2nd machine as a secondary DNS Now I know that its not the smartest thing to do, have primary DNS on the firewall, but I'm thinking since the DNS is going

Re: feedback on a good DNS server

2005-03-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 02:00:50PM -0800, John Pettitt wrote: Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Wednesday, March 09, 2005 04:42:46 PM -0500 Ean Kingston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I belive Bind is still included with the base FreeBSD OS. I've used it in the past and never had any problems

Re: feedback on a good DNS server

2005-03-10 Thread markzero
Oh, and c) djbdns isn't Free or Open Source by any definition of either phrase. That's not important to some people, but others consider it kind of important. Dan has given explicit permission to read, compile, modify and use the source code of djbdns. The only restriction is that you may

Re: feedback on a good DNS server

2005-03-10 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 22:22, you wrote: Dan has given explicit permission to read, compile, modify and use the source code of djbdns. From http://www.qmail.org/not-open-source.html: For a program to be open source, you must be able to, among other things, change the source and

Re: feedback on a good DNS server

2005-03-10 Thread markzero
Dan has given explicit permission to read, compile, modify and use the source code of djbdns. From http://www.qmail.org/not-open-source.html: For a program to be open source, you must be able to, among other things, change the source and redistribute it. DJB prohibits

Re: feedback on a good DNS server

2005-03-10 Thread Anthony Atkielski
sn1tch writes: I am looking into setting up a DNS server on our network using an existing FreeBSD box. I have been looking around and reading comments on different DNS servers out their but everyone has mixed feelings. I know someone who uses BIND and is happy with it .. is their any reason

feedback on a good DNS server

2005-03-09 Thread sn1tch
I am looking into setting up a DNS server on our network using an existing FreeBSD box. I have been looking around and reading comments on different DNS servers out their but everyone has mixed feelings. I know someone who uses BIND and is happy with it .. is their any reason why BIND wouldn't

Re: feedback on a good DNS server

2005-03-09 Thread Ean Kingston
I am looking into setting up a DNS server on our network using an existing FreeBSD box. I have been looking around and reading comments on different DNS servers out their but everyone has mixed feelings. I know someone who uses BIND and is happy with it .. is their any reason why BIND

Re: feedback on a good DNS server

2005-03-09 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Wednesday, March 09, 2005 04:42:46 PM -0500 Ean Kingston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking into setting up a DNS server on our network using an existing FreeBSD box. I have been looking around and reading comments on different DNS servers out their but everyone has mixed feelings. I

Re: feedback on a good DNS server

2005-03-09 Thread John Pettitt
Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Wednesday, March 09, 2005 04:42:46 PM -0500 Ean Kingston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking into setting up a DNS server on our network using an existing FreeBSD box. I have been looking around and reading comments on different DNS servers out

Re: feedback on a good DNS server

2005-03-09 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 04:00 pm, John Pettitt wrote: The argument against DJBDNS comes down to a) DJB annoys a lot of people and b) some of those people thinkg DJBDNS is not standards compliant. Erm, b is definitely true. It doesn't support IXFR or NOTIFY, so if you plan on slaving

Re: Caching DNS Server?

2004-11-10 Thread Dick Davies
* Andrew Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1104 17:04]: I want to setup a Caching DNS server for my network using FreeBSD 5.3. Can someone point me in the right direction with what port I need to install and any links to installation guides? You can use bind as others have suggested , though I found

Caching DNS Server?

2004-11-09 Thread Andrew Smith
I want to setup a Caching DNS server for my network using FreeBSD 5.3. Can someone point me in the right direction with what port I need to install and any links to installation guides? Thanks in Advance! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: Caching DNS Server?

2004-11-09 Thread Hexren
AS I want to setup a Caching DNS server for my network using FreeBSD 5.3. Can someone point me in the right direction with what port I need to install and any links to installation guides? AS Thanks in Advance! AS ___ AS [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: Caching DNS Server?

2004-11-09 Thread Benjamin Sobotta
Hi This might help: http://www.de.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-dns.html You don't need to install any ports. BIND9 is part of the FreeBSD. Ben On Tuesday 09 November 2004 16:56, Andrew Smith wrote: I want to setup a Caching DNS server for my network using FreeBSD

Re: Caching DNS Server?

2004-11-09 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 09:56:42AM -0700, Andrew Smith wrote: I want to setup a Caching DNS server for my network using FreeBSD 5.3. Can someone point me in the right direction with what port I need to install and any links to installation guides? No doubt BIND can do this ... but I find

Re: Caching DNS Server?

2004-11-09 Thread Andrew Smith
, 2004 2:30 PM Subject: Re: Caching DNS Server? Hi This might help: http://www.de.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-dns.html You don't need to install any ports. BIND9 is part of the FreeBSD. Ben On Tuesday 09 November 2004 16:56, Andrew Smith wrote: I want to setup a Caching DNS

Re: Caching DNS Server?

2004-11-09 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Danny MacMillan wrote: No doubt BIND can do this ... but I find djbdns much easier to configure. I have never tried out djbdns, so I cannot say for myself, and I also understand that apparently djbdns has caused similarly intense discussions as KDE-vs-GNOME or vi-vs-emacs; so I want to make

Re: Caching DNS Server?

2004-11-09 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 12:06:14PM -0700, Benjamin Walkenhorst wrote: Danny MacMillan wrote: No doubt BIND can do this ... but I find djbdns much easier to configure. I have never tried out djbdns, so I cannot say for myself, and I also understand that apparently djbdns has caused

Re: Caching DNS Server?

2004-11-09 Thread Rob
Andrew Smith wrote: Ok I think I've got bind working correctly, in resolve.conf I've only put 127.0.0.1 as the nameserver and I'm able to ping stuff on the internet. Is there anyway I can test to see if it's actually caching my requests? Where is the cache stored? The size of the cache you

Private (only) DNS server setup?

2004-10-19 Thread Seth Henry
to the router for time services. I plan to add a caching web proxy, and a private DNS server - which is where my question comes in. I want to run a private DNS server which is visible internally only. Comcast doesn't like servers, so I don't want to broadcast any DNS information upstream

Private (only) DNS server setup?

2004-10-19 Thread Robert Huff
Seth Henry writes: I have seen a large number of HOWTO's on the web, but all seem to assume that you want to propogate internal DNS info back upstream. Install Bind 9. (It's now the default for 5.x, don't know about 4.x) In the ARM (/usr/share/doc/bind9/arm), read section

Re: Private (only) DNS server setup?

2004-10-19 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Hello, Seth Henry wrote: I want to run a private DNS server which is visible internally only. Comcast doesn't like servers, so I don't want to broadcast any DNS information upstream. (this would also be kind of dumb, as the entries would point to non-routable addresses) I also want to create

Re: Private (only) DNS server setup?

2004-10-19 Thread Olaf Hoyer
, and have pointed all of my internal machines to the router for time services. I plan to add a caching web proxy, and a private DNS server - which is where my question comes in. I want to run a private DNS server which is visible internally only. Comcast doesn't like servers, so I don't want

Re: Private (only) DNS server setup?

2004-10-19 Thread Ezequiel O. Block
have a FreeBSD 4.10 system acting as a gateway router. It runs ipf/ipnat for filtering, and acts as a dhcp server to the internal network. I also run ntpd, and have pointed all of my internal machines to the router for time services. I plan to add a caching web proxy, and a private DNS server

Re: Private (only) DNS server setup?

2004-10-19 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
your server's local IP is) This way it will only listen on those interfaces. Also, there's allow-query and blackhole... _Plus_ you can just use a packet filter to protect your DNS-server from the internet. Possibilities are endless... =) Kind regards, Benjamin

Re: Private (only) DNS server setup?

2004-10-19 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 08:34:45AM -0600, Seth Henry wrote: ... I also want to create a private, internal zone so that I can stop passing hosts files around. (i.e. 192.168.1.1 - internal_host1, etc) IOW - I would like internal machines to point to my DNS server for internal external

DNS server

2004-07-11 Thread Sean Dicks
I can ping both NS servers but when it comes to pinging my domain it doesn't ping. Ideas on what could be wrong? Sean ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: DNS server

2004-07-11 Thread cpghost
Sean Dicks wrote: I can ping both NS servers but when it comes to pinging my domain it doesn't ping. Ideas on what could be wrong? You probably didn't configure the resolver library correctly. In /etc/resolv.conf, you need to add the name server entries: /etc/resolv.conf: domain example.com

Re: DNS server

2004-07-11 Thread Sean Dicks
I am only using dns forwarding. I already have default values in /etc/resolv.conf from my ISP, do I have to add my 2 others and delete the ones from the ISP or just leave it as is. I registered the domain today when I whois rimouski-undernet.org I see right nameservers on it. Doesn't that mean it

Re: DNS server

2004-07-11 Thread Eric Crist
On Sunday 11 July 2004 12:35, Sean Dicks wrote: I am only using dns forwarding. I already have default values in /etc/resolv.conf from my ISP, do I have to add my 2 others and delete the ones from the ISP or just leave it as is. I registered the domain today when I whois rimouski-undernet.org

Re: DNS server

2004-07-11 Thread cpghost
on it. Doesn't that mean it has propagated? The WHOIS and DNS databases are distinct, and not necessarily synchronized. You need to wait until your domain is added to the .ORG zone file of the master .ORG DNS Server (that normally happens every 12 hours from the PIR registry, IIRC [I can be wrong here

Re: DNS server

2004-07-11 Thread Len Conrad
No, it doesn't. I can successfully perform a whois from here on your domain, but an nslookup/dig both fail. Give it 72 hours to propagate across the net. propagation is a bogus idea when applied to DNS. Like WMD and immediate threat when applied to Iraq. As soon as the delegation and glue

Re: DNS server

2004-07-11 Thread Eric Crist
about at my last reply, are you sure your DNS server is set up correctly? Does it resolve it's own domains correctly, and is it able to answer queries about other domains? I would check that while you were waiting for propagation. -- Eric F Crist Keep your pecker hard and your powder dry

Re: DNS server

2004-07-11 Thread Len Conrad
Perhaps you need to do some research on the subject. perhaps you need to clarify your vagary There are a series of DNS systems ??? For a public domain.tld, the only two servers involved are : 1. the servers authoritative for .tld to publish the delegation and glue records for domain.tld.

Re: DNS server

2004-07-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 01:53:22PM -0500, Len Conrad wrote: a domain needs to be added to before it will function correctly. This is known as propagation. the misnomer propagation is used by people who think DNS data needs time to be available, to propagate, over several days or a week,

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