NS validation?

2009-02-07 Thread Frank Bulk - iName.com
A business customer of ours could not change their DNS entry at Register.com from ns1.mtcnet.net/ns1.netins.net. After 10 failed attempts thru register.com to register to ns1.mtcnet.net and ns1.netins.net, I contacted Register.com and escalated this call to their highest t

Re: Case For Microsoft DNS v. BIND 9 - Or Best Practices ForCoexisting

2009-02-07 Thread Danny Mayer
Baird, Josh wrote: > Actually, yes, if you have dynamic DNS registration enabled on the client/host and server, an 'A' record will automatically be created in the AD zone. > It needs to be registered in the domain first. Otherwise any system could mascarade as another system. Danny > Josh > >

bind9-default.md5sum file

2009-02-07 Thread Declan Mullen
Hi I'm running bind on Debian Lenny. Does anyone know what the file "/usr/share/bind9/bind9-default.md5sum" is for ? Googling for it didn't reveal any desciptions. According to Debian's package installation checksums, this file has changed. Is that to be expected ? The bind package version is 1

RE: Case For Microsoft DNS v. BIND 9 - Or Best Practices ForCoexisting

2009-02-07 Thread Baird, Josh
Actually, yes, if you have dynamic DNS registration enabled on the client/host and server, an 'A' record will automatically be created in the AD zone. Josh From: bind-users-boun...@lists.isc.org on behalf of Danny Mayer Sent: Sat 2/7/2009 2:29 PM To: wiskbr...@

Re: Case For Microsoft DNS v. BIND 9 - Or Best Practices For Coexisting

2009-02-07 Thread Danny Mayer
wiskbr...@hotmail.com wrote: > The case the windows team made was ease of adding entries, you simply > add into the MMC, or even easier, when you join a host into a domain, it > adds itself. > This is not even true. To add a host to a domain you have to register it manually, either by going into

Re: SERVFAIL from validating nameservers for advocaat.pro & advocaten.pro

2009-02-07 Thread Chris Thompson
On Feb 6 2009, Mark Andrews wrote: In message , Chris Thompson writes: [...] More info about the "not consistently" bit. With nothing about them in the cache ("rndc flushname advocaat.pro") looking up SOA or NS records for them gives SERVFAIL. But looking up A records does not, and after that