Re: Internal clients' queries for "myhostname." get sent to forwarders. Why?

2014-03-12 Thread Mark Andrews
The search algorithms in libresolve/libbind are a compromise. If I had my way, back when libresolv was updated for RFC 1535, support for partially qualified domain names would have died. ndots was the compromise. Searches would have only continued on NXDOMAIN and unqualified names would not hav

Re: bind v9.9.5 becomes unresponsive when using samba4 dlopen driver

2014-03-12 Thread Evan Hunt
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 10:09:44PM +0200, Nikos Mitas wrote: > at this point, nslookup and rndc are not working, the only option i have is > to kill samba and named and start over. But after a while the problem > repeats. > > any help will be very welcome Offhand I'd guess it's a deadlock. Does

Re: Internal clients' queries for "myhostname." get sent to forwarders. Why?

2014-03-12 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
On 03/12/14 06:50, Tony Finch wrote: > Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. wrote: > >> If you have FQDN for machines, the problem might be that the domain >> isn't set in resolv.conf? > > The machines are configured with a bare hostname. If there isn't a search > or domain directive in /etc/resolv.conf a

bind v9.9.5 becomes unresponsive when using samba4 dlopen driver

2014-03-12 Thread Nikos Mitas
Hello, I am using bind 9.9.5 with samba domain controller v4.1.5 on RedHat v6.5 and bind becomes unresponsive during the execution of samba dns update: ..28-Feb-2014 17:59:17.932 database: info: samba_dlz: starting transaction on zone example.com at this point, nslookup and rndc are not work

Re: How to create a fake root server?

2014-03-12 Thread Kevin Darcy
First of all, don't use .loc as an internal TLD. There are *many* proposals in process with ICANN for establishing new TLDs, and for all you know, .loc might be one of them. If .loc gets established on the Internet, and you're using it internally, that presents abundant opportunities for confus

How to create a fake root server?

2014-03-12 Thread Peter
Hi guys, I'm doing a virtual internet (internal net) for several VPS's. My goal is to simulate the Internet root servers and the ISP:s domain servers, which are hosting the actual domains. I want to the create several DNS nameservers that will contain the specific domain under the "xxx.loc, y

Re: Internal clients' queries for "myhostname." get sent to forwarders. Why?

2014-03-12 Thread Tony Finch
Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. wrote: > If you have FQDN for machines, the problem might be that the domain > isn't set in resolv.conf? The machines are configured with a bare hostname. If there isn't a search or domain directive in /etc/resolv.conf and there isn't an entry for the machine in /etc/hos