Re: Repotting report

2008-02-06 Thread Mark Andrews
> > --Apple-Mail-32-671463028 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset=US-ASCII; > delsp=yes; > format=flowed > > > On Feb 6, 2008, at 12:48 AM, Mark Andrews wrote: > > > IPv6 capable nameser

Re: Repotting report

2008-02-05 Thread Mark Andrews
> On Feb 6, 2008 12:11 AM, Mark Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> (from me) > > >How does a cache-resolver know that it's time to issue a query with edns0? > > > > cache-resolver that support EDNS0 will make EDNS0 queries > >

Re: Repotting report

2008-02-05 Thread Mark Andrews
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >On Feb 5, 2008 2:10 AM, Pekka Savola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Leo Bicknell wrote: >> > may try "dig any . @[a-m].root-servers.net." >> > >> > When I do that, I get the following response: >> > >> > a, c, d e, f, g, i and j re

F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET IPv6 address has changed.

2008-02-04 Thread Mark Andrews
only affect users that have deliberately overridden the responses returned by the root servers. Mark -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Repotting report

2008-02-04 Thread Mark Andrews
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > > >On 4-Feb-2008, at 16:05, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > >> And the new named.root has arrived: >> >> ftp://rs.internic.net/domain/named.root > >I seem to think it has become fairly widespread practice for people to >refresh their named.root files (or

Re: houston.rr.com MX fubar?

2008-01-14 Thread Mark Andrews
e mail domains they are configured as final delivery agents for and if not found log that there are missing MX records. Mark > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishment > > randy -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 21

Re: houston.rr.com MX fubar?

2008-01-14 Thread Mark Andrews
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >On Jan 14, 2008 5:08 PM, Tony Finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> the "." convention then it will look up the root's and A records, >> which is stupid but should cause the message to bounce as desired. However >> if it does implement the conventi

Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's?

2008-01-03 Thread Mark Andrews
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >> > I'd rather push for /48 and have people settle on /56 than push for=20 >> > /56 and have people settle on /64. >>=20 >> Again, why the hang-up on 8 bit boundaries? > >Look, why are we arguing about this? Why not split >the difference? If /48 is too

Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers

2007-12-23 Thread Mark Andrews
>I think we got here when "site-local" went away - we've effectively >redefined link-local to mean "site-local," while using globally unique >addressing. site-local was replaced with ULA. Have you got your ULA yet? :-) ULA gives you /48's. 6to4 gives you /48's.

Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again...

2007-11-05 Thread Mark Andrews
> Mark, > > On Nov 5, 2007, at 5:31 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > > All you have to do is move the validation to a machine you > > control to detect this garbage. > > You probably don't need to bother with DNSSEC validation to stop the > Verizon red

Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again...

2007-11-05 Thread Mark Andrews
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >On Nov 5, 2007, at 8:23 AM, David Lesher wrote: >> What affect will Allegedly Secure DNS have on such provider >> hijackings, both of DNS and crammed-in content? > >If what Verizon is doing is rewriting NXDOMAIN at their caching >servers, DNSSEC will

Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again...

2007-11-05 Thread Mark Andrews
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >On Sun, 4 Nov 2007 11:52:11 -0500 (EST) >Sean Donelan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I just wish the IETF would acknowledge this and go ahead and define a >> DNS bit for artificial DNS answers for all these "address correction" and >> "domain parking"

Re: dns authority changes and lame servers

2007-10-18 Thread Mark Andrews
The correct way to change a delegation is to: * add the new servers as stealth servers for the current zone. * if the old master is to be removed, make it a slave of the new master. * add the new NS records to the zone. * wait for all t

Re: Geographic map of IPv6 availability

2007-10-15 Thread Mark Andrews
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >On 10/15/07, Mark Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >> > >> > >> >On 15/10/2007, at 8:24 PM, Martin Hannigan wrote: >> > >>

Re: Geographic map of IPv6 availability

2007-10-15 Thread Mark Andrews
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > > >On 15/10/2007, at 8:24 PM, Martin Hannigan wrote: > >> [moresnip] >> >> The way I read the portion of the thread related to resolver behavoir >> was that the resolver behavior was being discussed. Not the client. >> The resolver should have an attribu

Re: Access to the IPv4 net for IPv6-only systems, was: Re: WG Action:

2007-10-04 Thread Mark Andrews
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: >>> That isn't actually true. I could move to IPv6 and deploy a NAT-PT >>> box to give my customers access to the v4 Internet regardless of >>> whatever the rest of the community thinks. >> >> And then you'll see your active

Re: Going dual-stack, how do apps behave and what to do as an operator (Was: Apple Airport Extreme IPv6 problems?)

2007-09-21 Thread Mark Andrews
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >On 9/15/07, Jeroen Massar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> [spam: Check http://www.sixxs.net/misc/toys/ for an IPv6 Toy Gallery :)] >> >> Somewhat long, hopefully useful content follows... >> >> Barrett Lyon wrote: >> [..] > >[ clip ] > >> Of course when t

Re: Do I or RR need dns clue?

2007-08-16 Thread Mark Andrews
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >> >> Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: >> >Down is there isn't power to it until it gets repaired. So its not >> > answering period. A "nslookup" shows "timed-out". A "dig" shows >> > "connection timed out; no servers could be reached" (When querying ONLY

Re: Discovering policy

2007-08-15 Thread Mark Andrews
> > On Aug 15, 2007, at 5:34 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > > >> Yes, and this convention still generates nuisance root traffic > >> whenever the application fails to comprehend "." is a special > >> target. This is true even when _defined_ as a s

Re: Discovering policy

2007-08-15 Thread Mark Andrews
> > On Aug 14, 2007, at 10:22 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > > > > >> On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 11:58 +1000, Mark Andrews wrote: > >>> > >>> Since all valid email domains are required to have a working > >>> postmaster you can safely drop

Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy...

2007-08-14 Thread Mark Andrews
> On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 11:58 +1000, Mark Andrews wrote: > > > > Accepting messages from a domain lacking MX records might be risky > > > due to the high rate of domain turnovers. Within a few weeks, > > > more than the number of existing domains will have

Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy...

2007-08-14 Thread Mark Andrews
>This comment was added as a follow-on note. Sorry for not being clear. > >Accepting messages from a domain lacking MX records might be risky >due to the high rate of domain turnovers. Within a few weeks, more >than the number of existing domains will have been added and deleted >by then.

Re: large organization nameservers sending icmp packets to dns servers.

2007-08-10 Thread Mark Andrews
> >>> On 8/9/2007 at 10:07 PM, Mark Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >> > >>I suspect that the origin of the myth that DNS/TCP is more > >>dangerous than DNS/UDP is that

Re: large organization nameservers sending icmp packets to dns servers.

2007-08-09 Thread Mark Andrews
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > > I suspect that the origin of the myth that DNS/TCP is more > dangerous than DNS/UDP is that the first root expliot of > named was over TCP not UDP. There were later exploits that > were UDP only which totally busted the myth bu

Re: large organization nameservers sending icmp packets to dns servers.

2007-08-09 Thread Mark Andrews
I suspect that the origin of the myth that DNS/TCP is more dangerous than DNS/UDP is that the first root expliot of named was over TCP not UDP. There were later exploits that were UDP only which totally busted the myth but it continues to live. Mar

Re: Belgian court rules that ISPs must block file-sharing

2007-07-05 Thread Mark Andrews
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,134159-c,internetlegalissues/article.html > >Note that this is based on their interpretation of EU law. > > > --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb "The court has confirmed that the ISPs have

Re: ICANN registrar supporting v6 glue?

2007-07-01 Thread Mark Andrews
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >I've read your email twice and I dont follow. > >Either you are telling me > >a) Provide my own hints with included (you specifically say thats not >what you mean tho) > >or > >b) Serve my own root zone. From a root operator, surely thats not rig

Re: ICANN registrar supporting v6 glue?

2007-06-30 Thread Mark Andrews
>Barrett Lyon wrote: >>=20 >> Apparently GoDaddy does not support v6 glue for their customers, who >> does? I don't think requiring dual-stack v6 users perform v4 queries t= >o >> find records is all that great. > >At least eNom does. > >There are a few others but it tends to be that you hav

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-30 Thread Mark Andrews
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >John Curran wrote: >> Steve - >> >> For the first end site that has to connect via IPv6, >> it will be very bad if there is not a base of IPv6 >> web/email sites already in place. > >As the network administrator for a Web hosting company, I'

Re: Interesting new dns failures

2007-05-21 Thread Mark Andrews
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 09:25:37PM -0700, > Roger Marquis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > a message of 15 lines which said: > >> >If not, have any root nameservers been hacked? >> >> To partly answer my own question, no. > >I cannot find the original mess

Re: today's Wash Post Business section

2006-12-21 Thread Mark Andrews
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >--==_Exmh_1166716384_12674P >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > >On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 05:59:21 CST, Robert Bonomi said: >> How many people have a search engine as their 'home page' in their web >> browser? >> >> How many end-user types _don't_

Re: DNS - connection limit (without any extra hardware)

2006-12-11 Thread Mark Andrews
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Simon Waters wrote: > >> Yes. Most of the root server traffic is answering queries with >> "NXDOMAIN" for non-existant top level domains, if you slave root >> on your recursive servers, your recursive servers can answer those >> q

Re: SORBS Contact

2006-08-09 Thread Mark Andrews
> Mark Andrews wrote: > > Actually there can be false positive. ISP's > > who put address blocks into "dialup" blocks > > which have the qualification that the ISP is > > also supposed to only do it if they *don't* > > al

Re: SORBS Contact

2006-08-09 Thread Mark Andrews
Actually there can be false positive. ISP's who put address blocks into "dialup" blocks which have the qualification that the ISP is also supposed to only do it if they *don't* allow email from the block but the ISP's policy explicitly allows email

Re: How to handle AAAA query for v4 only host

2006-04-12 Thread Mark Andrews
>Apologies if anyone thinks this does not require coordination or is somehow >not operational. > >However, I have a situation where some nameservers for which I am=20 >responsible >are receiving queries for hosts for which we are authoritative. We >return the SOA only as it seems we are supp

Re: Interesting paper by Steve Bellovin - Worm propagation in a v6 internet

2006-02-14 Thread Mark Andrews
> On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Mark Andrews wrote: > > > I suggest that you re-read RFC 1034 and RFC 1035. A empty > > node returns NOERROR. A non-existant node returns NXDOMAIN > > (Name Error). > > Right. This means depth-first walk, which will reduce the

Re: Interesting paper by Steve Bellovin - Worm propagation in a v6 internet

2006-02-14 Thread Mark Andrews
> On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Mark Andrews wrote: > > > One of method missing is doing top down random walks of ip6.arpa. > > That's only easy if delegation were on a per-nybble basis, which is commonly > not the case. Because there are not typically NS's at every

Re: Interesting paper by Steve Bellovin - Worm propagation in a v6 internet

2006-02-14 Thread Mark Andrews
> On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Mark Andrews wrote: > > > One of method missing is doing top down random walks of ip6.arpa. > > That's only easy if delegation were on a per-nybble basis, which is commonly > not the case. Because there are not typically NS's at every

Re: Interesting paper by Steve Bellovin - Worm propagation in a v6 internet

2006-02-14 Thread Mark Andrews
One of method missing is doing top down random walks of ip6.arpa. Mark

Re: DOS attack against DNS?

2006-01-16 Thread Mark Andrews
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Paul Vixie wrote: > >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Andrews) writes: >> >>> For repeat offenders create a list of networks that won't >>> implement BCP 38 and collective

Re: DOS attack against DNS?

2006-01-15 Thread Mark Andrews
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > ># > class "ANY" has no purpose in the real world, not even for debugging. if ># > you see it in a query, you can assume malicious intent. if you hear it in ># > a query, you can safely ignore that query, or at best, map it to class ># > "IN". ># >#

Re: DOS attack against DNS?

2006-01-15 Thread Mark Andrews
> This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) > --enig8BD22DF9AD3BC6F2B19E8B12 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Mark Andrews wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wri

Re: DOS attack against DNS?

2006-01-14 Thread Mark Andrews
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >I just started seeing thousands of DNS queries that look like some sort >of DOS attack. One log entry is below with the IP obscured. > >client xx.xx.xx.xx#6704: query: z.tn.co.za ANY ANY +E > >When you look at z.tn.co.za you see a huge TXT record. > >

Re: Weird DNS issues for domains

2005-09-29 Thread Mark Andrews
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >> >> I just tested it from a Verizon DSL host and it worked. >> >> You might want to consider reading RFC 2182 though, particularly the >> part about geographically diverse nameservers. > >Yeah, yeah, that is overrated. If my site goes dark and my DNS

Re: IPv6 Address Planning

2005-08-10 Thread Mark Andrews
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >On 10-aug-2005, at 18:03, Leo Bicknell wrote: > >> IPv6 allocations in the host portion (with /64 boundaries) are >> sparce, even for the largest networks. The number of hosts becomes >> unimportant. The question we need to ask is how many independant

Re: Enable BIND cache server to resolve chinese domain name?

2005-07-03 Thread Mark Andrews
disfavour by configuring your caching servers to support a private namespace then yes. I would have thought the Site Finder experience would have stopped people from thinking that they can arbitarially add names to to the public DNS. Mark --

Re: Is my BIND Server's Cache Poisioned ?

2005-06-29 Thread Mark Andrews
> i > On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Mark Andrews wrote: > > > No. These are just a mis-configured zones. > > > > hangzhou.gov.cn only has glue records for the nameservers. > > zpepc.com.cn has CNAMEs for the nameservers. > > > > Both of these

Re: Is my BIND Server's Cache Poisioned ?

2005-06-29 Thread Mark Andrews
hangzhou.gov.cn/A'): cancelquery > 52 24-Jun-2005 19:02:00.054 fctx > 37ad318(www.hangzhou.gov.cn/A'): done > 53 24-Jun-2005 19:02:00.054 fctx > 37ad318(www.hangzhou.gov.cn/A'): stopeverything > 54 24-Jun-2005 19:02:00.054 fctx > 37ad318(www.han

Re: Underscores in host names

2005-05-18 Thread Mark Andrews
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > > > >> Since changing SMTP2821 and waiting until everyone complies and accepts >> email addresses with no "." is not an option, the solutions proposed are >> to either have address like "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" or "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >> >> The only reason it

Re: Underscores in host names

2005-05-18 Thread Mark Andrews
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >There are also mail domains to consider. They have superficially the same >syntax as host names (they cannot have a trailing dot) but they are >generally checked much more strictly for conformance to that syntax. I'm >not sure whether the original post

Re: Underscores in host names

2005-05-18 Thread Mark Andrews
the anti-spam/DNS schemes depend upon underscore not being legal in a hostname. Mark > Rgds, > -drc > > On May 17, 2005, at 6:08 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > > RFC 952 and RFC 1123 describe what is currently legal > > in hostnames. > > &g

Re: Underscores in host names

2005-05-17 Thread Mark Andrews
One should note that COM and other tld's stopped giving out domains outside of LDH to prevent these sorts of interoperability issues. COM actually retrieved the ones they had delegated.

Re: Underscores in host names

2005-05-17 Thread Mark Andrews
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >Hello all. >We have a client containing an underscore in the email address domain >name. Our email server rejects it because of it's violation of the RFC >standard. This individuals claim is that he doesn't have problems >anywhere else and if this is go

Re: Verisign broke GTLDs again?

2005-05-16 Thread Mark Andrews
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >Noticied today. All Verisign's GTLD servers broke >EDNS0 (RFC2671). Here's how it looks like: > >query: > >$ dnsget -t mx -vv microsoft.net. -n 192.5.6.30 >;; trying microsoft.net. >;; sending 42 bytes query to 192.5.6.30 port 53 >;; ->>HEADER<<- opco

Re: Schneier: ISPs should bear security burden

2005-05-01 Thread Mark Andrews
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >[In the message entitled "Re: Schneier: ISPs should bear security >burden" on May 1, 12:25, "Jay R. Ashworth" writes:] >> Ok, so here's a question for your, Dave: >> >> do you have a procedure for entertaining requests to be excluded from >> your repl

Re: Schneier: ISPs should bear security burden

2005-04-29 Thread Mark Andrews
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Miller, Mark wrote: > >> Unfortunately, a lot of static "business" DSL IP space is still on >> those lists and legitimate mail servers can get blocked. I usually use >> the DUL as a "white list" to negate hits on the traditional dn

Re: The power of default configurations

2005-04-06 Thread Mark Andrews
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > > >On 4/6/2005 5:00 PM, Sean Donelan wrote: > >> Why does BIND forward lookups for RFC1918 addresses by default? > >As has been pointed out already, caches need to be able to ask other >(local) servers for the PTRs. > >OTOH, it might make a good feature

Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance

2005-03-31 Thread Mark Andrews
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 22:33:49 -0800, Alexei Roudnev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Heard of a little thing called 'spam'? >> >> So what? You can use your car as a weapon; should we prohibit you from car >> driving? > >No, but if your car doesn't ha

Re: Delegating /24's from a /19

2005-03-16 Thread Mark Andrews
/ DNAME maps to. Mark -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Delegating /24's from a /19

2005-03-15 Thread Mark Andrews
generally. > > Owen > > P.S. Learn to trim quotations. > > > --=20 > If this message was not signed with gpg key 0FE2AA3D, it's probably > a forgery. > > --==63ACF217CA8F895998F9== > Content-Type: application/pgp-signature > Content-Transfe

Re: Delegating /24's from a /19

2005-03-15 Thread Mark Andrews
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >--==D714B409A8D84E671065== >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >Content-Disposition: inline > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Either by doing DNS delegation on the

Re: Delegating /24's from a /19

2005-03-15 Thread Mark Andrews
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Mar 15 14:12:12 2005 >> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:12:10 -0500 >> From: Robert Blayzor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Cc: Mike Sawicki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, nanog@merit.edu >> Subject: Re: Delegating /24's fr

Re: An open letter to Mike Delany, mdelany@databasecity.com

2005-01-26 Thread Mark Andrews
(UTC) > (envelope-from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > I posted this here because you clearly harvested by address from > a nanog mailing (including the entire contents of my last mailing > to the list was a sure give away). > > Mark >

An open letter to Mike Delany, mdelany@databasecity.com

2005-01-26 Thread Mark Andrews
mailing to the list was a sure give away). Mark -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fixing insecure email infrastructure (was: Re: [eweek article]

2005-01-25 Thread Mark Andrews
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 07:31:44AM +1100, Mark Andrews wrote: > > Does it really matter? > > Yes it does. > (As we all know at least since the Godzilla movie "size does matter" ;-) > It has direct influence on the deployment. Well someone has

Re: fixing insecure email infrastructure (was: Re: [eweek article]

2005-01-25 Thread Mark Andrews
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 09:41:08AM +1100, Mark Andrews wrote: > > Lots. I'm sure that there are lots of ISPs/IAPs on NANOG > > that do RFC 2317 style delegations for their customers. > > How many is lots? Does it really matter? Even if it was

Re: fixing insecure email infrastructure (was: Re: [eweek article]

2005-01-24 Thread Mark Andrews
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 10:05:05AM +1100, Mark Andrews wrote: > > >What is wrong with MTAMARK? > > As currently described it doesn't fit well with RFC 2317 > > style delegations. They would need to be converted to use > > DNAME instead of CNAM

Re: fixing insecure email infrastructure (was: Re: [eweek article]

2005-01-14 Thread Mark Andrews
records at some point in the future for IP6.INT. For the forward part all the end systems just register their new addresses in the DNS using UPDATE. Mark. -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fixing insecure email infrastructure (was: Re: [eweek article]

2005-01-13 Thread Mark Andrews
>What is wrong with MTAMARK? As currently described it doesn't fit well with RFC 2317 style delegations. They would need to be converted to use DNAME instead of CNAME which requires all the delegating servers to be upgraded to support DNAME. There are oth

Re: Broken PMTUD for . + TLD servers, was: Re: Smallest Transit MTU

2005-01-10 Thread Mark Andrews
> On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 22:42:28 +1100, Mark Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > : > > > I receive DNS responses > 500 bytes every day (reported by PIX firewall). > So > > > it is an issue, no matter wgat is recomended in RFC. > > > > Th

Re: Broken PMTUD for . + TLD servers, was: Re: Smallest Transit MTU

2005-01-10 Thread Mark Andrews
xx.com is dropping glue records for the COM/NET servers. The correct thing to do is to fix your firewall to handle the EDNS responses. Mark RFC 2671: Extension Mechanisms for DNS (EDNS0) -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHO

Re: Broken PMTUD for . + TLD servers, was: Re: Smallest Transit MTU

2005-01-09 Thread Mark Andrews
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >On 5-jan-05, at 17:39, Sabri Berisha wrote: > >>> Are there any common examples of the DF bit being set on non-TCP >>> packets? > >[...] > >> Here you go. A root-nameserver setting the DF-bit on its replies :) > >This is very bad. > >With a 296 byte MTU

Re: is reverse dns required? (policy question)

2004-12-02 Thread Mark Andrews
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >You would put in a global wildcard that says no smtp sender here. Only >for those boxes being legitimate SMTP to outside senders you'd put in a >more specific record as shown above. You probably have to enter some dozen >to one hundred servers this wa

Re: BCP38 making it work, solving problems

2004-10-19 Thread Mark Andrews
>dropped over it's 25 day uptime: > > RPF Failures: Packets: 34889152, Bytes: 12838806927 > RPF Failures: Packets: 4200, Bytes: 449923 > RPF Failures: Packets: 3066337401, Bytes: 122772518288 > RPF Failures: Packets: 30954487, Bytes: 3272647457 > RPF Failures: Packets: 470

Re: IPv6 support for com/net zones on October 19, 2004

2004-09-20 Thread Mark Andrews
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >VeriSign will add support for accessing the com/net zones using IPv6 >transport on October 19, 2004. On that day, records for >a.gtld-servers.net and b.gtld-servers.net will be added to the root >and gtld-servers.net zones. > >We do not anticipate

Re: Recent changes to UltraDNS, problems?

2004-08-23 Thread Mark Andrews
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >Has anyone else noticed any strange problems lately when querying >UltraDNS for name server records? > >I have a few scripts that seem to have broken in the past week. A >simple PERL script that looks up NS records from the root servers, which >work

Re: Charter blocking Port 25

2004-06-09 Thread Mark Andrews
;be crazy dumbsaint of the mind" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Jack Kerouac -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IPv6 reverse lookup - lame delegation?

2004-02-11 Thread Mark . Andrews
es have also been proposed for the DNAME RR, but since they are outside the scope of the IPv6 address discussion, they will not be addressed here. > At 14:45 +0200 2/11/04, Pekka Savola wrote: > >On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Mark Andrews wrote: > >&

Re: IPv6 reverse lookup - lame delegation?

2004-02-11 Thread Mark Andrews
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 00:36:19 +, Paul Vixie wrote: > >> or just put into effect. > >I am confused. Are DNAMEs deprecated or not (RFC3363, section 4)? > > rvdp RFC 3363 does NOT say

Re: IPv6 reverse lookup - lame delegation?

2004-02-10 Thread Mark Andrews
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >Mark Andrews wrote: > >> The correct fix to this will be to just stop making IP6.INT >> queries. >> >> The best think that could be done is for the PT

Re: IPv6 reverse lookup - lame delegation?

2004-02-10 Thread Mark Andrews
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > > if i try to log into my machines back in tokyo by IPv6 SSH, it takes > very long time. i guess i found the reason - (possible) lame delegation > of blah.ip6.int. ip6.arpa. query returns instantly. > how could we fix it? > >ito