Re: Change in behaviour regarding ndots and searchlist

2014-09-15 Thread Doug Barton
On 9/15/14 7:04 AM, Lightner, Jeff wrote: While the final dot has been required within zone files to prevent unwanted appendages to records it has NOT been required by tools such as host and nslookup on either Windows or Linux/UNIX which routinely use "search" domains. On Windows the behavio

Re: Change in behaviour regarding ndots and searchlist

2014-09-15 Thread Sam Wilson
In article , Steven Carr wrote: > Without the final explicit "." your name is not fully qualified. Except in an email address where a trailing "." is illegal. Sam -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. _

Re: bind-9.10.0-P2 memory leak?

2014-09-15 Thread Thomas Schulz
> ... > > Heh thanks, yeah...initially I was erring on the side of caution and using > > 9.9.x because it's served us well (~20k recursive clients without any > > significant problems). Meanwhile we've been keeping a close eye on > > community comments, and to be honest opinions wax and wane. Jus

Re: 1000's of zone using the same zone file in a blacklist

2014-09-15 Thread Hans-Cees Speel
Steven Carr schreef op 15-9-2014 om 4:07: On 15 September 2014 02:56, Pieter De Wit wrote: Is there any way we can reduce the memory footprint/optimize this any more ? Look ups are really fast and not a problem, just reload time and memory used. Look into using an RPZ instead of individual zon

RE: Change in behaviour regarding ndots and searchlist

2014-09-15 Thread Lightner, Jeff
While the final dot has been required within zone files to prevent unwanted appendages to records it has NOT been required by tools such as host and nslookup on either Windows or Linux/UNIX which routinely use "search" domains. As I noted this is something that seems to have changed recently.

Re: Change in behaviour regarding ndots and searchlist

2014-09-15 Thread Sebastian Wiesinger
* Barry Margolin [2014-09-15 15:18]: > In article , > Steven Carr wrote: > > > On 15 September 2014 13:29, Lightner, Jeff wrote: > > > I've begun seeing this recently in nslookup on Windows workstations as > > > well.It appears it is appending search domains even when I've > > > specifie

Re: Change in behaviour regarding ndots and searchlist

2014-09-15 Thread Barry Margolin
In article , Steven Carr wrote: > On 15 September 2014 13:29, Lightner, Jeff wrote: > > I've begun seeing this recently in nslookup on Windows workstations as > > well.It appears it is appending search domains even when I've specified > > an FQDN. That is I have two search domains such

Re: Change in behaviour regarding ndots and searchlist

2014-09-15 Thread Steven Carr
On 15 September 2014 13:29, Lightner, Jeff wrote: > I've begun seeing this recently in nslookup on Windows workstations as well. > It appears it is appending search domains even when I've specified an FQDN. > That is I have two search domains such as ex1.com and ex2.net and I typed > short

RE: Change in behaviour regarding ndots and searchlist

2014-09-15 Thread Lightner, Jeff
I've begun seeing this recently in nslookup on Windows workstations as well. It appears it is appending search domains even when I've specified an FQDN. That is I have two search domains such as ex1.com and ex2.net and I typed short name "ralph" for nslookup or host it would give me "ralph.

Re: bind-9.10.0-P2 memory leak?

2014-09-15 Thread Cathy Almond
... > Heh thanks, yeah...initially I was erring on the side of caution and using > 9.9.x because it's served us well (~20k recursive clients without any > significant problems). Meanwhile we've been keeping a close eye on > community comments, and to be honest opinions wax and wane. Just as I > t

Re: Change in behaviour regarding ndots and searchlist

2014-09-15 Thread Mark Andrews
Partially qualified names are DANGEROUS. You realy do not want to use them ever no matter how convient or useful they appear to be. In message <20140915083532.ga29...@danton.fire-world.de>, Sebastian Wiesinger w rites: > Hello, > > I noticed a change in the host tool in regard to how searches a

Change in behaviour regarding ndots and searchlist

2014-09-15 Thread Sebastian Wiesinger
Hello, I noticed a change in the host tool in regard to how searches are done when there are >= "ndots" dots in the query. In the following case ndots is always nonexistant in the configuration. With bind 9.8 (Debian 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1): $ host -d test.example Trying "test.example" Received 105 byt