Re: Tuning suggestions for high-core-count Linux servers

2017-06-01 Thread Mathew Ian Eis
bilities like being able to shift production load for maintenance on the named backends). Best of luck! Let us know where you cap out! Regards, Mathew Eis Northern Arizona University Information Technology Services -Original Message- From: "Browne, Stuart" Date: Thursday,

Re: Tuning suggestions for high-core-count Linux servers

2017-05-31 Thread Mathew Ian Eis
360k qps is actually quite good… the best I have heard of until now on EL was 180k [1]. There, it was recommended to manually tune the number of subthreads with the -U parameter. Since you’ve mentioned rmem/wmem changes, specifically you want to: 1. check for send buffer overflow; as indicated

Re: Overwrite A record from DNSSEC protected domain if I am the owner of the domain

2017-04-26 Thread Mathew Ian Eis
What you are describing more generally sounds like what is known as split-view or split-horizon DNS. In short, you split all (or part by virtue of delegation or forwarders) of your namespace into “internal” and “external” partitions; this is documented in the context of BIND here: https://ftp.i

Re: Adding/removing name servers under DNSSEC

2017-03-06 Thread Mathew Ian Eis
content from old and new nameservers, that will be easy in this case since all are slaves to the same (hidden) master. Thanks again, Mathew Eis Northern Arizona University -Original Message- From: Mark Andrews Date: Monday, March 6, 2017 at 5:32 PM To: Mathew Ian Eis Cc: "bind-

Adding/removing name servers under DNSSEC

2017-03-06 Thread Mathew Ian Eis
Hi BIND, Hoping someone in the community will have experience with this. We are looking to migrate off a set of nameservers to another set of nameservers. For all practical considerations, both sets of servers are slave to the same hidden master, which yields interesting considerations that are

Re: real BIND start time

2017-01-05 Thread Mathew Ian Eis
ps -C named -o start,lstart is the time since the process was started. One can also force BIND to “reset” with a SIGHUP without actually stopping and starting the daemon. This will cause (among many other things) the pid file to be reset. (You can also find a “general: notice: running” about t

EDNS issue with bind 9.11 and NetScaler 11.0

2016-12-20 Thread Mathew Ian Eis
Hi BIND, We are running BIND behind a Citrix NetScaler (v 11.0) load balancer, and recently had a report that BIND 9.11 is unable to resolve names from our public nameservers. The issue can be easily reproduced with the BIND 9.11 client, e.g.: $ dig nau.edu @a.ns.nau.edu (will return status: F

Re: DNS views setup help

2016-08-19 Thread Mathew Ian Eis
server IP is 25.25.25.25 and my slave is 26.26.26.26. Using my config from my first email and your code from your reply (lets use only the part from the linked doc you wrote) can you provide a modified view for internal and external for both the master and slave server? Sorry for all the ques

Re: DNS views setup help

2016-08-18 Thread Mathew Ian Eis
I think you are pretty close. One detail that you appear to be missing are is in the linked document: server 10.0.1.1 { /* Deliver notify messages to external view. */ keys { external-key; }; }; Your slaves should have a similar statement in each view with the IP of the master and the relevant

Re: auto-dnssec maintain and DNSKEY removal

2016-07-15 Thread Mathew Ian Eis
--- From: Tony Finch Date: Thursday, July 14, 2016 at 3:17 AM To: Mathew Eis Cc: "bind-users@lists.isc.org" Subject: Re: auto-dnssec maintain and DNSKEY removal Mathew Ian Eis wrote: > > sig-validity-interval seems to only affect the expiration date of newly >

Re: auto-dnssec maintain and DNSKEY removal

2016-07-13 Thread Mathew Ian Eis
, Mathew Eis -Original Message- From: Tony Finch Date: Wednesday, July 6, 2016 at 2:48 AM To: Mathew Eis Cc: "bind-users@lists.isc.org" Subject: Re: auto-dnssec maintain and DNSKEY removal Mathew Ian Eis wrote: > > Does all of that sound right? I believ

Re: auto-dnssec maintain and DNSKEY removal

2016-07-05 Thread Mathew Ian Eis
its thing and not hang onto zombie keys anymore. Does all of that sound right? Thanks again, -Mathew Eis From: Tony Finch Date: Tuesday, July 5, 2016 at 10:48 AM To: Mathew Eis , "bind-users@lists.isc.org" Subject: Re: auto-dnssec maintain and DNSKEY removal Mathew Ian

Re: auto-dnssec maintain and DNSKEY removal

2016-07-05 Thread Mathew Ian Eis
to-dnssec maintain and DNSKEY removal Mathew Ian Eis wrote: > > We think that in some cases, named may be choosing to use a key past the > removal date (as in [2]), while our file maintenance process removes the > keys as per their deletion date – after which named no longer has the

auto-dnssec maintain and DNSKEY removal

2016-07-01 Thread Mathew Ian Eis
Hi BIND, The documentation for auto-dnssec maintain suggests that named will remove DNSKEYs from zones when the deletion time marked in the metadata occurs [1]. Unfortunately, it seems this is not always the case. We are currently trying to diagnose the source of residual DNSKEYs in our zones

Re: ISC considering a change to the BIND open source license

2016-06-15 Thread Mathew Ian Eis
I support the license change as well, and I’d like to specifically applaud the use of a license that still allows for commercial use even while nicely asking for the re-contribution of any improvements. (speaking for myself and not the University) -Mathew Eis __

RE: Split horizon and authoritative servers

2016-04-04 Thread Mathew Ian Eis
ossible; e.g. what would you put in the NS/SOA records to keep the master hidden and the slaves non-authoritative? Thanks again, -Mathew Eis From: John W. Blue [john.b...@rrcic.com] Sent: Monday, April 04, 2016 7:12 PM To: Mathew Ian Eis; bind-users@lists.

Split horizon and authoritative servers

2016-04-04 Thread Mathew Ian Eis
Hi BIND, I have a question about authoritative servers in a split horizon environment (suppose two views “internal” and “external”). Is is necessary to have separate internal authoritative (listed in internal zone NS records, but not in whois or external NS records) servers, if the internal re

Re: Recursive bind becomes unresponsive with high load

2016-04-01 Thread Mathew Ian Eis
@nau.edu (928) 523-2960 -Original Message- From: Michael Brunnbauer Date: Friday, April 1, 2016 at 9:29 AM To: Mathew Eis Cc: "bind-users@lists.isc.org" , Subject: Re: Recursive bind becomes unresponsive with high load > >Hello Mathew, > >On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at

Re: Recursive bind becomes unresponsive with high load

2016-04-01 Thread Mathew Ian Eis
What OS are you running your BIND server on? Is it virtualized? Is it fully unresponsive, or could it be simply taking longer to respond than your client timeout? Cheers, Mathew Eis Northern Arizona University Information Technology Services mathew@nau.edu (928) 523-2960 -Origin

Re: force re-sign of individual host record?

2016-02-25 Thread Mathew Ian Eis
Cc: "bind-users@lists.isc.org" Subject: Re: force re-sign of individual host record? > > "rndc sign zone [class [view]]" should do it. > >In message , Mathew Ian Eis write >s: >> Hi BIND, >> >> Anyone know if there is a good way t

force re-sign of individual host record?

2016-02-25 Thread Mathew Ian Eis
Hi BIND, Anyone know if there is a good way to force named to resign a single host record? (e.g. without generating new ZSKs, etc.?) An ntp glitch recently caused our master nameserver to jump many hours into the future, whereupon it began issuing invalid (to the world) RRSIGs with an inceptio

Re: Interesting behavior with wildcard domains

2016-02-23 Thread Mathew Ian Eis
sers-boun...@lists.isc.org<mailto:bind-users-boun...@lists.isc.org> [mailto:bind-users-boun...@lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of Noel Butler Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2016 6:19 PM To: bind-users@lists.isc.org<mailto:bind-users@lists.isc.org> Subject: Re: Interesting behavior with wildcard

Interesting behavior with wildcard domains

2016-02-23 Thread Mathew Ian Eis
Hi BIND, I’ve encountered (quite by accident) an interesting behavior in BIND with wildcard domains: The relevant configuration is a zone; e.g. bar.com, with what I’ll call a “second level” wildcard host, e.g. *.foo.bar.com A 10.10.10.5 in that zone. (as opposed to what might be considered the

Re: separation of authoritative and recursive functions on internal networks

2016-01-29 Thread Mathew Ian Eis
Howdy Mark, Can you please clarify the best practice for this? > Recursive servers (honouring RD=1) however can be authoritative for zones. In this context of "authoritative", do you mean that they can be fully functional slaves and have a complete copy of the zone information? I would imagine

Re: DNSSEC secondary (free)

2015-08-21 Thread Mathew Ian Eis
"bind-users@lists.isc.org" Date: Thursday, August 20, 2015 at 4:59 PM To: "bind-users@lists.isc.org" Subject: Re: DNSSEC secondary (free) >On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 06:29:57PM +, Mathew Ian Eis wrote: >> I believe Hurricane Electric’s free DNS https://dns.he.net/

Re: DNSSEC secondary (free) - Was - Re: Can I run two name servers on one host with two IP addresses?

2015-08-20 Thread Mathew Ian Eis
I believe Hurricane Electric’s free DNS https://dns.he.net/ supports DNSSEC if you do zone transfers to them. (No personal experience, but we’ve been considering using them for the same purpose, and they seem to have a good community reputation). Mathew Eis Northern Arizona University From:

response case in-sensitivity?

2015-07-29 Thread Mathew Ian Eis
Howdy BIND, We’ve been troubleshooting an issue with iOS print discovery using DNS-SD for the last several weeks. We made a little bit of a breakthrough this evening when we observed in a packet trace that the response case was fully lowercase, regardless of the query case. It seems iOS is doin

Re: random latency in named

2015-05-22 Thread Mathew Ian Eis
-Original Message- From: Tony Finch Date: Friday, May 22, 2015 at 2:32 AM To: Mathew Eis Cc: "bind-users@lists.isc.org" Subject: Re: random latency in named >Mathew Ian Eis wrote: >> >> * The OS is RHEL 6.6; we just updated the kernel to >> 2.6.32-50

random latency in named

2015-05-21 Thread Mathew Ian Eis
Hi BIND, I’ve been trying to track down the source of random latency in our production servers, without much luck. At random intervals - several times an hour - named appears to suddenly stop processing queries for around 0-2500ms, only to resume moments later. This of course introduces latency