Re: Random nx name queries, anyone see this before?

2008-12-15 Thread Frank Behrens
ponga2...@gmail.com wrote on 15 Dec 2008 16:34: > I'd be very interested in what others find. I do have an update and > correction to my original post: > > The format is 9chars.8chars - as an example: > qjnqrtfun.wxsifmgj > Sometimes a colon appears, so the char list seems to be [a-z:] > Also, I

Re: MIME garbage in comp.protocols.dns.bind

2008-12-15 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <_aednq2trrolj9runz2dnuvz_tlin...@posted.hiwaay2>, Chris Adams write s: > Once upon a time, Mark Andrews said: > > I've raised a ticket with our ops people. > > While you are at it, could you see about fixing the Usenet threading? > It appears messages from the mail-to-news gatew

Re: Random nx name queries, anyone see this before?

2008-12-15 Thread ponga2112
I'd be very interested in what others find. I do have an update and correction to my original post: The format is 9chars.8chars - as an example: qjnqrtfun.wxsifmgj Sometimes a colon appears, so the char list seems to be [a-z:] Also, I was wrong about the FQDN - they do appear in named/bind logs -

Re: MIME garbage in comp.protocols.dns.bind

2008-12-15 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Mark Andrews said: > I've raised a ticket with our ops people. While you are at it, could you see about fixing the Usenet threading? It appears messages from the mail-to-news gateway get the Message-ID: changed (often a bad idea) BUT the gateway doesn't update the Referen

Re: Stuck glue records in the GTLD servers??

2008-12-15 Thread Milo Hyson
Thanks for the tip. I've asked those with the proper authority to verify the registrar's records. I must admit that I find it unusual that this needs to be done. In my experience, the glue records automatically change when a domain's name servers are altered. However, I have never worked wi

Re: Stuck glue records in the GTLD servers??

2008-12-15 Thread Mark Andrews
You need to contact the registar for netdentalcare.com and update the HOST record for ns.netdentalcare.com to have the new address record. This changes what GLUE is published in the COM zone. Mark -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 211

Re: ISC BIND Windows?

2008-12-15 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <029c7576bb4b4f1480bf8cf9d125a...@nc4010>, "Jukka Pakkanen" writes: > Sorry I've lost track of the different versions, which works in Windows and > which don't. > > So... what is the latest version, working in W2K3? See the "immediate downloads" on https://www.isc.org/softwar

Re: Stuck glue records in the GTLD servers??

2008-12-15 Thread Milo Hyson
They've been changed for days: > ns.netdentalcare.com. Server: ns1.idaserver.com. Address:207.178.132.75#53 QUESTIONS: ns.netdentalcare.com, type = A, class = IN ANSWERS: -> ns.netdentalcare.com internet address = 207.178.132.75 AUTHO

Re: ISC BIND Windows?

2008-12-15 Thread Evan Hunt
> Sorry I've lost track of the different versions, which works in Windows and > which don't. > > So... what is the latest version, working in W2K3? And Is W2K still > abandoned? 9.3.6, 9.4.3, or 9.5.0-P2-W2 (which is soon to be supplanted by 9.5.1, currently in release-candidate status, as is

Re: Stuck glue records in the GTLD servers??

2008-12-15 Thread Milo Hyson
Absolutely. Note the listed authoritative servers in the snippet I included. Those are the new ones. -- Milo Hyson Chief Scientist CyberLife Labs On Dec 15, 2008, at 15:40, David Ford wrote: did you update the ns records with your registrar? Milo Hyson wrote: I'm seeing what looks like a st

Re: Stats collection script for BIND 9.5 (and greater?)

2008-12-15 Thread JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉
At Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:18:21 +0100, Alexander Gall wrote: > > http://members.iinet.com.au/~pyard...@ihug.com.au/#%5B%5BBIND%209.5%20DNS%20Stats%5D%5D > > This looks useful, thanks. However, ISC has chosen to change some > tags in 9.6.0rc1 (nsstats -> nsstat, zonestats -> zonestat, resstats -> >

ISC BIND Windows?

2008-12-15 Thread Jukka Pakkanen
Sorry I've lost track of the different versions, which works in Windows and which don't. So... what is the latest version, working in W2K3? And Is W2K still abandoned? ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mail

Re: Stuck glue records in the GTLD servers??

2008-12-15 Thread Mark Andrews
In message , Milo Hyson writes: > I'm seeing what looks like a stuck glue record in the GTLD servers and > I'm hoping I've just overlooked something simple. There are several > domains which list the following as their nameservers: > > ns.netdentalcare.com > ns2.netdentalcare.com

Re: Stuck glue records in the GTLD servers??

2008-12-15 Thread David Ford
did you update the ns records with your registrar? Milo Hyson wrote: > I'm seeing what looks like a stuck glue record in the GTLD servers and > I'm hoping I've just overlooked something simple. There are several > domains which list the following as their nameservers:

Stuck glue records in the GTLD servers??

2008-12-15 Thread Milo Hyson
I'm seeing what looks like a stuck glue record in the GTLD servers and I'm hoping I've just overlooked something simple. There are several domains which list the following as their nameservers: ns.netdentalcare.com ns2.netdentalcare.com The zone for these (netdentalcare.com)

Re: Bind 9.6.0b1 xml stats - changes?

2008-12-15 Thread JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉
At Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:12:49 -0800, "D. Stussy" wrote: > Using the same .xls page to format as I did with 9.5.1b1, some of the > sections don't have data. Something was altered between these two > versions, but the release notes say NOTHING about any change to the > statistics web server feature

Re: Random nx name queries, anyone see this before?

2008-12-15 Thread Alan Clegg
ponga2...@gmail.com wrote: > I'm seeing name queries from a couple clients on the network that > occur around every two minutes - the queries are evidently random and > are looking for A IN records of this form, as an example: > > ungzbvyf.lzghmccim > > They always look like this, 8 lowercase cha

Random nx name queries, anyone see this before?

2008-12-15 Thread ponga2112
I'm seeing name queries from a couple clients on the network that occur around every two minutes - the queries are evidently random and are looking for A IN records of this form, as an example: ungzbvyf.lzghmccim They always look like this, 8 lowercase chars, dot, then 9 lowercase chars - never a

Re: Issue with case changing from master on BIND 9 to slave on BIND 8

2008-12-15 Thread Mark Andrews
Mark Andrews writes: > > > > In message <9fc47420fb263da9eda170166fd4d...@cornell.edu>, John Wobus writes: > > Some years ago, I had that issue. The problem was that the > > zone transfer compression mechanism could change the case > > of individual names. This was fixed in some release of bi

Re: Issue with case changing from master on BIND 9 to slave on BIND 8

2008-12-15 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <9fc47420fb263da9eda170166fd4d...@cornell.edu>, John Wobus writes: > Some years ago, I had that issue. The problem was that the > zone transfer compression mechanism could change the case > of individual names. This was fixed in some release of bind > (after 9.2.1, if I remember cor

Re: MIME garbage in comp.protocols.dns.bind

2008-12-15 Thread Mark Andrews
In message , Sam Wilson wri tes: > In article , > Chris Buxton wrote: > > > On Dec 11, 2008, at 10:57 PM, Barry Margolin wrote: > > > The old mail-to-news gateway either got this right or > > > extracted the plain text alternative before forwarding. > > > > The old mail server stripped message

Re: 50 million records under one domain using Bind

2008-12-15 Thread Scott Haneda
Out of curiosity, if one zone is to hold 50 million records, what would they all be for? I can't even imagine blogspot or godaddy being in that league. Perhaps with this many records just using a wldcard would be simpler? Then again maybe this is a new tld, or old one being consolidated? --

Re: 50 million records under one domain using Bind

2008-12-15 Thread JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉
At Sat, 13 Dec 2008 17:09:57 +0530, "Vinay Y S" wrote: > I am studying the scalability and performance characteristics of > different DNS servers. Goal is to find the best suitable server to > host a single domain with 50 million records. I am planning to install > Fedora 10 x86_64 on a 32GB RAM

Re: Issue with case changing from master on BIND 9 to slave on BIND 8

2008-12-15 Thread John Wobus
Some years ago, I had that issue. The problem was that the zone transfer compression mechanism could change the case of individual names. This was fixed in some release of bind (after 9.2.1, if I remember correctly), and bind release notes would pinpoint the exact version with the change. The p

Re: bind memory usage

2008-12-15 Thread Sam Wilson
In article , sch...@adi.com (Thomas Schulz) wrote: > In article , > =?UTF-8?B?TGVvbmFyZG8gUm9kcmlndWVzIE1hZ2FsaMOjZXM=?= > wrote: > >[base64 guff] > > > You know, the above is not very usefull. Can someone please fix the > newsgroup gateway. The content is below. I forward it only be

Re: Stats collection script for BIND 9.5 (and greater?)

2008-12-15 Thread Alexander Gall
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:12:21 +1100, Peter Yardley said: > I have written a script to collect data from the XML stats channel of a > Bind 9.5+ DNS server. It works with Cricket and should work with MRTG > and Cacti. > You can get it here... > http://members.iinet.com.au/~pyard...@ihug.com.au/ >

Issue with case changing from master on BIND 9 to slave on BIND 8

2008-12-15 Thread Ben Croswell
I reaching out to the list on what appears to be a very odd issue that happened over the weekend. We had an issue where some internal domains had the TLD capitalized after the zone transfer. i.e. foo.bar.com on the master became foo.bar.COM on the slave. I know that DNS is case insensitive but it c

Re: bind memory usage

2008-12-15 Thread Thomas Schulz
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Re: bind memory usage

2008-12-15 Thread Дмитрий Рыбин
I just test bind 9.5.0-P2 and 9.5.1-rc1 Bind 9.5.0-P2 allocate over 2Gb per 10 minutes of work. Bind 9.5.1 allocate 2Gb per 30 hours. 14.12.2008, в 2:15, JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 написал(а): At Sat, 13 Dec 2008 11:50:52 -0200, Leonardo Rodrigues Magalhães wrote: i'm trying to run bind 9.5.0-P

Re: MIME garbage in comp.protocols.dns.bind

2008-12-15 Thread Sam Wilson
In article , Chris Buxton wrote: > On Dec 11, 2008, at 10:57 PM, Barry Margolin wrote: > > The old mail-to-news gateway either got this right or > > extracted the plain text alternative before forwarding. > > The old mail server stripped messages down to their plaintext values. > The new one

Re: MIME garbage in comp.protocols.dns.bind

2008-12-15 Thread Sam Wilson
In article , sch...@adi.com (Thomas Schulz) wrote: > I was wondering what was going on. Some messages are just base64 and are > completely useless/unreadable. If you have mimencode you could try this: $ mimencode -u > /tmp/weird ; less /tmp/weird On Mac OS X and other systems with the right

Re: dnsperf and BIND memory consumption

2008-12-15 Thread Dmitry Rybin
Thank's to JINMEI Tatuya for support. I have over 40 views, defined in named.conf, max-memory for cache - 32Mb. Named daemon allocate over 2 Gb per 24 hours of work. Have you any ideas how to limit memory usage? Dmitry Rybin wrote: > max-cache-size 64M; > # /usr/bin/limits -v 1200M /usr/local/sbi

Re: Where is the open recursion test?

2008-12-15 Thread Gregory Hicks
> Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:52:01 +0100 > From: Peter Dambier > To: bind-users@lists.isc.org > Subject: Re: Where is the open recursion test? > X-FuHaFi: 0.62 > > just try > > dig -t any peter-dambier.de @ > > If it tells you something about denic it is not recursive. > If you get the complete

Re: Where is the open recursion test?

2008-12-15 Thread Peter Dambier
just try dig -t any peter-dambier.de @ If it tells you something about denic it is not recursive. If you get the complete answer it is very likely recursive. Something internal could have triggered the query but only if your server is in /etc/resolv.conf. Kind regards Peter Gregory Hicks wrot

Re: Where is the open recursion test?

2008-12-15 Thread Gregory Hicks
> Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 06:44:18 -0200 > From: Leonardo Rodrigues Magalhães > > Gregory Hicks escreveu: > > Greetings: > > > > Seeing in my named.log entries for "too many timeouts resolving > > ''..." makes me wonder if my server is an > > open recursive server. > > > > Where is the test pleas

Re: Where is the open recursion test?

2008-12-15 Thread Leonardo Rodrigues Magalhães
Gregory Hicks escreveu: Greetings: Seeing in my named.log entries for "too many timeouts resolving ''..." makes me wonder if my server is an open recursive server. Where is the test please for open recursion so I can check? http://dns.measurement-factory.com/cgi-bin/openresolvercheck.pl