Difference between multiple NS and NS having multiple A

2013-02-17 Thread Alexander Gurvitz
r the same ns1/ns2, instead of advising each user to add ns3..nsX to their parent zones. Thanks, Alexander Gurvitz, net-me.net ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-

Re: named crashed

2012-12-11 Thread Alexander Gurvitz
Linh, >From my personal experience - BIND have lots of such bugs. Upgrade to the latest version (minor one - 9.8.4-P1, not 9.9.2) and see if the error reappears. If yes, report it to bind9-b...@isc.org (if the bug is not reproducible anyway even on 9.8.3-P1, I'd report it too). Alexander

Re: Upstart job for BIND9

2012-12-01 Thread Alexander Gurvitz
> I don't think it's wise to respawn named without knowing why it crashed. > This could lead to repeated crashed and system overload. 1. I have a system whose only reason to exist is running bind, once bind stops I don't mind the whole system overload, crash or go to hell. 2. When I've seen that m

Re: Upstart job for BIND9

2012-11-29 Thread Alexander Gurvitz
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > famous assertion failures? What system do you run the BIND on? Shouldn't > you > better upgrade to version that has no famous assertion failures? Well, of course it's extremely exaggerated, sorry if I offended someone. But crashes

Re: Upstart job for BIND9

2012-11-29 Thread Alexander Gurvitz
Carsten, The script in my original question (it's in the P.S. at the bottom of my first mail) seem to work for me. It does not cover all the extra logic of the ubuntu default init.d/bind9, but I personally don't need that (ubuntu script may update resolv.conf, and also checks if there's a network

Upstart job for BIND9

2012-11-29 Thread Alexander Gurvitz
daemon forks - if it forks once, "expect fork" should be specified, and if a daemon forks twice, it should be "expect daemon". Then upstart will wait for that forkings and will monitor the final PID). Thanks in advance, Alexander Gurvitz, net-me.net P.S My /etc/init/bind.co

Re: Seeking Advice on DNSSEC Algorithm Rollover

2012-06-23 Thread Alexander Gurvitz
e metadata and should remove the key and all the signatures at that time. You don't need nsupdate nor update-policy for that. Regards, Alexander Gurvitz, net-me.net ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe

Re: Moving DNS out of non-cooperative provider

2012-06-19 Thread Alexander Gurvitz
> > 3282. [bug] Restrict the TTL of NS RRset to no more than that > >of the old NS RRset when replacing it. >[RT #27792] [RT #27884] > Just to clarify - does this rule applies also while replacing parent NS records with (more credible) ch

Re: Moving DNS out of non-cooperative provider

2012-06-19 Thread Alexander Gurvitz
Mark, > 3282. [bug] Restrict the TTL of NS RRset to no more than that >of the old NS RRset when replacing it. >[RT #27792] [RT #27884] "TTL of the old NS RRset" here means the current "remaining" TTL, or the original TTL value as recei

Re: Single-key rollover

2012-06-19 Thread Alexander Gurvitz
> > > That paragraph from 4.1.4 is just plain wrong and following it will > lead to cached data that can't be validated once retrieved. > > Lets say that all data in the zone has a TTL of 3600. > > At T - 3500 you have retrieved the DNSKEY while validating a MX RRset. > At T - 100 you lookup a A re

Moving DNS out of non-cooperative provider

2012-06-18 Thread Alexander Gurvitz
com have TTL of 3600. Thus each hour ns.isp.com queries ns.OLDprovider.net, with each query gets new NS record, and... refreshes the NS TTL ? Will ns.isp.com EVER query ns.NEWprovider.net ? I'd be happy to know how BIND behaves, but also how other servers may behave in this case. Regards, Al

Single-key rollover

2012-06-18 Thread Alexander Gurvitz
with BIND, am I getting it right ? Thanks in advance, Alexander Gurvitz, net-me.net ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailma

Re: BIND ignores changes in zonefiles

2012-06-14 Thread Alexander Gurvitz
ND reports there. Alexander Gurvitz, net-me.net ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users

Re: TTL for name servers

2012-06-05 Thread Alexander Gurvitz
Hi. TTL returned by YOUR zone authoritative server will (at least should) be preferred by caches. Matt Larson from verisign explained on these: http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/2004-07/msg00255.html Regards, Alexander Gurvitz, net-me.net

Re: Clarification on wildcard falls into glue records

2012-05-15 Thread Alexander Gurvitz
You should NOT get A records. Wildcard works only for hostnames that have NO records of ANY type. >From wikipedia: To quote RFC 1912, "A common mistake is thinking that a wildcard MX for a zone will apply to all hosts in the zone. A wildcard MX will apply only to names in the zone which aren't l

Re: random-device purpose in DNSSEC

2012-05-13 Thread Alexander Gurvitz
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 12:57 AM, Mark Andrews wrote: > > > > What random device used for ? > > ... I don't get why signing a zone requires any randomness. > > It doesn't for RSA.  However DSA does require randomness. > >  > Does BIND really needs that entropy, and how much ? > > Yes, if you are u

Multiple zones with single key pair

2012-05-10 Thread Alexander Gurvitz
Hello, Multiple zones with a single key - is possible with BIND ? Regards, Alexander Gurvitz, net-me.net ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org

Re: KSK stays published 3 days after delete time

2012-05-10 Thread Alexander Gurvitz
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 11:04 PM, Axel Rau wrote: > >> Did you delete it manually (at 2012-05-07T14:55:02.569706) ? > Yes; i.e. my script. >> If so, maybe it's still in the zone because BIND doesn't know the timing >> metadata anymore ? > I thought that would be in the journal or internal reposito

random-device purpose in DNSSEC

2012-05-10 Thread Alexander Gurvitz
s are low at entropy, and BIND default random-device is /dev/random, and it (the device) blocks when there's no entropy available. Does BIND really needs that entropy, and how much ? Regards, Alexander Gurvitz, net-me.net ___ Please visit http