RE: DNS connection refused : round-robin pools

2015-08-26 Thread Darcy Kevin (FCA)
How is DNS organized for the national VPN? Is someone running root nameservers? A "private" version of the .cu namespace, that the rest of us can't see, perhaps? If you're trying to build this from scratch, then you can start by setting up your own root zone. But I suspect there's something alr

DNS connection refused : round-robin pools

2015-08-26 Thread Int
I do not have access to Internet in my case, only have access to a national VPN, As I can disable the zone "." // prime the server with knowledge of the root servers zone "." { type hint; file "/etc/bind/db.root"; }; As I can avoid that the DNS try to get connect

Re: Troubleshooting Information

2015-08-26 Thread Bob McDonald
The warning is issued either way (with or without recursion specified). But I see the logic in not needing it if recursion is set to no. Thanks again, Bob On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 5:45 AM, Tony Finch wrote: > Bob McDonald wrote: > > > > I'd still include the hint zone (as I'm partial to not ha

Re: Troubleshooting Information

2015-08-26 Thread Tony Finch
Bob McDonald wrote: > > I'd still include the hint zone (as I'm partial to not having unnecessary > warnings on startup). The "recursion no" directive means you shouldn't have a hint zone in that view. (I don't know if it will complain about the inconsistency.) > Also a lot of folks use localhos

Re: Troubleshooting Information

2015-08-26 Thread Reindl Harald
one problem is that you need to change your whole configuration if you don't need views because dedicated servers for external and internal DNS allow-chaos {localhost; localnets;} defaulting to 127.0.0.1 as global option would be helpful BTW: what i don't understand is why "status: NOERROR" i

Re: Troubleshooting Information

2015-08-26 Thread Bob McDonald
That's brilliant! Thanks. I'd still include the hint zone (as I'm partial to not having unnecessary warnings on startup). Also a lot of folks use localhost and/or localnets in DNS configuration. Just from a security standpoint, I prefer to be more specific. localhost and/or localnets can be much

Re: Identify source of "rndc reconfig" command?

2015-08-26 Thread Konstantin Stefanov
Hi, Robert. As I understand, something is calling rndc on your localhost. So you may try (untested by me): Find rndc binary, mv rndc rndc.ORIG Replace rndc with script which will execute something like ps fax >> /tmp/rndc.log then exec rndc.ORIG with the same arguments. Then you will see who i

Re: Troubleshooting Information

2015-08-26 Thread Tony Finch
Bob McDonald wrote: > To further lock this information down I would suggest adding the > following view statements to any internet facing DNS device configuration: > > view "outsiders" chaos { > match-clients { !127.0.0.1; !your-inside--nets; any; }; > allow-query { none; }; > # w

Troubleshooting Information

2015-08-26 Thread Bob McDonald
Bind 9 provides configurable hosts within the chaos class which can be queried to provide troubleshooting infornation. They are: version.bind hostname.bind These are all configurable within the options block of the DNS configuration file. In the past, the suggestion was to specify something other