**another** connection timed out; no servers could be reached

I have 2 dns servers running the same zones,hints and named.conf each of them acts as a master (I do most of the updates of the zones i have through a script) I'm running a simple query from both of the box and it seems that I can't query the 2nd box. #1 box $ dig @1.1.1.10 www.yahoo.com ; <<>>

request for advice

Sirs, I would like to make a request for advice on one problem I faced with DNS. I have to delegate one /26 and one /27 subnet  in one reverse zone. In my reverse zone file, I put these; ; <<128-159>> /27 128-159    NS    udns1.ultradns.net. 128-159    NS    udns2.ultradns.net. ; 129 CNAME 129.1

CNAME used in Global Server Loadbalancing - is it RFC compliant ?

Hello, we are using Global Server Loadbalancing (GSLB) for site redundancy. GSLB is based on DNS technology and works as follows --- standard implementation case --- www.example.com.NS loadbalancer-1.example.com. #

Re: AW: file descriptors and max-clients-per-query

At Thu, 14 May 2009 17:46:42 +0200, "Philippe Maechler" wrote: > > > I'm running a bind 9.4.2-p2 and a 9.5.1-P1 both on a > > FreeBSD 6.x box > > > as caching servers. > > > let's call them ns1 and ns2 :P > > > > > > short after we shutdown server one we get error messages on > > the other se

Why does key-directory have to be absolute?

BIND imposes the same restriction on the key-directory value as it does on directory, i.e. that it has to be an absolute path or ".". I don't see why this should be necessary: why can't it be a path relative to the directory setting? (Just as "file" values in zone statements can be.) -- Chris Tho

Re: dig return values

On May 26, 2009, at 6:19 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 03:15:56PM -0700, Scott Haneda wrote a message of 32 lines which said: I do not know, nor would I want to have to know, all the possible return strings I may get back. My needs are simple, I believe any ANSWER of

Re: Has PGP key been changed?

> has PGP key been changed? Yes, it has. The release announcement contains a link to the new key (https://www.isc.org/files/pgpkey2009.txt). We should have flagged the change more prominently, sorry about that. -- Evan Hunt -- e...@isc.org Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.

A question from RFC 3403

An example from RFC 3403 The URN might look like this: urn:cid:199606121851.1@bar.example.com This Application's First Well Known Rule is to extract the characters between the first and second colon. For this URN that would be 'cid'. The Application also specifies that, in order to bui

Re: dig return values

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 03:15:56PM -0700, Scott Haneda wrote a message of 32 lines which said: > Does `dig` have return codes that I can use to make some form of > automated tests? Not for everything. % dig +short SOA dummy.example && echo Success Success % dig +short @192.168.42.42 SOA du

Re: Has PGP key been changed?

At Tue, 26 May 2009 15:12:15 +0200, Adam Tkac wrote: > > has PGP key been changed? Yes. > Current ISC key located on http://oldwww.isc.org/about/openpgp/pgpkey2006.txt > has different ID - 1BC91E6C. > > Would it be possible to publish updated PGP key, please? Sigh. The new key is in the world

Has PGP key been changed?

Hi, has PGP key been changed? I downloaded bind-9.6.1rc1.tar.gz and SHA512 signature and tried to verify the tarball. Unfortunately verification failed because the public key is not known. $ gpg --verify bind-9.6.1rc1.tar.gz.sha512.asc bind-9.6.1rc1.tar.gz gpg: Signature made Thu 21 May 2009 11: