Re: Good news! Very good!

2011-01-30 Thread Alan Clegg
On 1/30/2011 4:41 AM, p...@mail.nsbeta.info wrote: > listman, > why this user has been always staying here for sending spams? > Regards. Things happen, spammers send junk, they are then unsubscribed from the list as soon as we notice (and get back from the weekend). All done, user zapped. AlanC

Re: cache server with authoritative answer

2011-01-30 Thread Mark Andrews
In message , Chris Buxton writes: > No, BIND 8 was broken this was also. This was fixed in BIND 9. As for > non-BIND name servers, anything goes. > > Chris Buxton > BlueCat Networks It depended on the BIND 8 version. Running everything through the cache cleaned up the answers the stub resolver

Re: what's a valid domain name?

2011-01-30 Thread Chris Buxton
On Jan 30, 2011, at 1:47 PM, Vytautas Grigaliunas wrote: > What is the status of "dotted" hostnames - i.e. a period in the hostname > portion of a domain name ? > > At one point they were allowed, I believe ? What is the latest official RFC ? Periods, or dots, act as dividers in a domain name,

Re: what's a valid domain name?

2011-01-30 Thread Barry Margolin
In article , Vytautas Grigaliunas wrote: > What is the status of "dotted" hostnames - i.e. a period in the hostname > portion of a domain name ? > > At one point they were allowed, I believe ? What is the latest official RFC ? I don't think they've every been allowed. Why would you need to d

Re: what's a valid domain name?

2011-01-30 Thread Vytautas Grigaliunas
What is the status of "dotted" hostnames - i.e. a period in the hostname portion of a domain name ? At one point they were allowed, I believe ? What is the latest official RFC ? Thanks... Vyto - Original Message - From: Barry Margolin Date: Sunday, January 30, 2011 3:34 pm Subject:

Re: what's a valid domain name?

2011-01-30 Thread Barry Margolin
In article , Chris Buxton wrote: > Correct, the requirement to start with a letter was removed ages ago. > Witness 3com.com, which may have been the first. Yes, I'm pretty sure they were the impetus for the change, paving the way for 1-800-FLOWERS.COM years later. -- Barry Margolin, bar...@a

Re: ddns and subdomains

2011-01-30 Thread Chris Buxton
There's nothing wrong with doing that. You would create delegation NS records in the example.com zone: dhcp6 NS some.name.server. dhcp6 NS other.name.server. You can of course use the same set of name servers as are authoritative for example.com. Chris Buxton BlueCat Networks On

Re: what's a valid domain name?

2011-01-30 Thread Chris Buxton
Correct, the requirement to start with a letter was removed ages ago. Witness 3com.com, which may have been the first. Chris Buxton BlueCat Networks On 1/29/11, p...@mail.nsbeta.info wrote: > Joseph S D Yao writes: > >> >> The labels must follow the rules for ARPANET host names. They must >> s

Re: cache server with authoritative answer

2011-01-30 Thread Chris Buxton
No, BIND 8 was broken this was also. This was fixed in BIND 9. As for non-BIND name servers, anything goes. Chris Buxton BlueCat Networks On 1/29/11, Barry Margolin wrote: > In article , > p...@mail.nsbeta.info wrote: > >> The book "Pro DNS and BIND" says: >> >> If the caching server obtains i

ddns and subdomains

2011-01-30 Thread Rick Dicaire
Hi folks, I have ddns setup in a testing env, its working. ddns-domainname is dhcp6.example.com. Clients get assigned host.dhcp6.example.com My question is, is it "correct" to create a separate subdomain zone specifically for dhcp6.example.com so example.com zone itself doesn't have to be updated,

Re: cache server with authoritative answer

2011-01-30 Thread Ben Croswell
That is no longer the case. It doesn't respond authoritative on the first query. -Ben Croswell On Jan 30, 2011 10:01 AM, "Kevin Oberman" wrote: > On Sat, 2011-01-29 at 14:49 +0800, p...@mail.nsbeta.info wrote: >> The book "Pro DNS and BIND" says: >> >> If the caching server obtains its data dire

Re: cache server with authoritative answer

2011-01-30 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Sat, 2011-01-29 at 14:49 +0800, p...@mail.nsbeta.info wrote: > The book "Pro DNS and BIND" says: > > If the caching server obtains its data directly from an authoritative DNS, > then it too will respond as authoritative. Ohterwise, if the data is > supplied from its cache, the response is no

Re: what's a valid domain name?

2011-01-30 Thread pyh
From RFC 1123 One aspect of host name syntax is hereby changed: the restriction on the first character is relaxed to allow either a letter or a digit. Host software MUST support this more liberal syntax. p...@mail.nsbeta.info writes: Joseph S D Yao writes:

Re: Good news! Very good!

2011-01-30 Thread pyh
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