"#service named restart" fails with a weird message

2015-06-19 Thread Samad Agha
allow-recursion {207.151.36.0/24; 206.117.117.0/24}; }; zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" { type master; file "db.127.0.0" }; [root@new-dns2 ~]# What am I doing wrong? Can you please assist? Many thanks in advance and have a nice day. Regards, Samad A

Fwd: Getting an error on a simple DNS configuration

2015-06-03 Thread Samad Agha
I put the allow-recursion clause under my options, the #service named restart failed. Where exactly should I place this allow-recursion clause? [root@new-dns2 ~]# cat /etc/named.conf options { directory "/var/named"; allow-recursion (207.151.36.0); }; zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa"

Re: Getting an error on a simple DNS configuration

2015-06-03 Thread Samad Agha
Dear Tony, Bob, & Matus, Thank you very much for your advice, you guys are awesome. On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > On 03.06.15 12:34, Samad Agha wrote: > >> So, when I query my new DNS server from itself (206.117.115.93), it >> resolves

Getting an error on a simple DNS configuration

2015-06-03 Thread Samad Agha
[root@new-dns2 ~]# service iptables status iptables: Firewall is not running. [root@new-dns2 ~]# Can someone please tell me what might be the problem? Many thanks in advance and have a wonderful day/night. Sincerely, Samad Agha ___ Please visit https://

Re: Getting an error on a very simple DNS configuration

2015-04-08 Thread Samad Agha
Hi All, Problem is solved for now. Reindl Harald pointed out that my port 53 is not open. Sure enough I went on the new dns server and issued the command $service iptables stop, and all was working like a charm after that. Thank you guys, seriously the service you have set up is so valuable for n

Re: Getting an error on a very simple DNS configuration

2015-04-08 Thread Samad Agha
> Mark > > > In message 0...@mail.gmail.com> > , Samad Agha writes: > > > > Hey Gurus, > > > > I'm a newbie and am trying to set up the simplest DNS server, just a > > working version, nothing fancy yet. Below is the steps I've taken > al

Getting an error on a very simple DNS configuration

2015-04-08 Thread Samad Agha
Hey Gurus, I'm a newbie and am trying to set up the simplest DNS server, just a working version, nothing fancy yet. Below is the steps I've taken already: 1- Set up my /etc/named.conf as follows: [root@new-dns1 named]# cd /etc [root@new-dns1 etc]# cat named.conf zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" {

Can someone please translate entries from query.log file?

2014-07-15 Thread Samad Agha
Hi All, Can someone please tell me exactly what the two entries below from query.log file mean? 15-Jul-2014 16:24:27.042 queries: XX / 206.117.120.2/foothillfiretraining.org/SOA/IN 15-Jul-2014 16:24:34.100 queries: XX / 206.117.120.84/129.118.117.206.in-addr.arpa/PTR/IN I'm running BIND 8.2.4 on

Re: In BIND 8.2 running on Solaris 8, how to start logging

2014-06-27 Thread Samad Agha
ay, June 27, 2014 5:02 PM > To: bind-users@lists.isc.org > Subject: Re: In BIND 8.2 running on Solaris 8, how to start logging > > On 6/27/2014, Samad Agha wrote: > > Hi All, > > I have two Solaris 8 servers running BIND 8.2. I'd like to retire them > > both an

In BIND 8.2 running on Solaris 8, how to start logging

2014-06-27 Thread Samad Agha
Hi All, I have two Solaris 8 servers running BIND 8.2. I'd like to retire them both and transfer everything to a couple of RHEL 7 boxes. The City (I work for a mid-size California city) has outsourced different aspects of our DNS that I even lost track and have no idea what these two DNS servers se

Re: Can I build a new DNS/BIND system parallel to our existing DNS production system?

2012-05-03 Thread Samad Agha
Thanks Daniel, I really appreciate your help. SA On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Daniel Deighton wrote: > > > On 05/03/2012 02:44 PM, Samad Agha wrote: > > Thanks for your help Eivind. > > > >>Depends, how long is a piece of string? I don't know what amo

Re: Can I build a new DNS/BIND system parallel to our existing DNS production system?

2012-05-03 Thread Samad Agha
Thanks for your help Eivind. >Depends, how long is a piece of string? I don't know what amount of >traffic you're currently seeing, or what your uptime requirements are. - Are there tools to find out about current amount of traffic? - Our uptime requirements are basically from 6am to 6pm during c

Can I build a new DNS/BIND system parallel to our existing DNS production system?

2012-05-03 Thread Samad Agha
Dear DNS/BIND gurus, I am the sole Unix/Linux/Backup Admin for a midsize city in California. I also inherited a old DNS/BIND (BIND 8.2.2-P5) system running on a Sun-Fire-V210 with Solaris 8 on it. The city is comprised of a hotchpotch of many Windows domains/domain-controllers, WINS servers, and

Re: Error when trying to make secondary nameserver from copying primary nameserver

2011-05-06 Thread Samad Agha
Elvind & Ben, Thanks so much for your quick replies, I really appreciate it. I'll try out your suggested solutions on Monday, since I'm off today, and will report back my results. Thanks again and have a nice weekend. SA On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Eivind Olsen wrote: >

Error when trying to make secondary nameserver from copying primary nameserver

2011-05-05 Thread Samad Agha
I have a working primary nameserver (dns1) and am trying to configure secondary nameserver (dns2) by copying zone files, config file, etc. from dns1 onto dns2. I have performed the following on dns2 server: 1- found out which version of bind dsn1 is running and installed exactly that version on dn

What should I put as "Primary DNS" and "Secondary DNS" when building our DNS Servers

2011-03-07 Thread Samad Agha
Hi All, I'm building our DNS servers from scratch with Red Hat 5.5. Part of the installation asks for "Primary DNS" and "Secondary DNS", since these two servers will act as our DNS servers, should I put their own IP? Does that create any problems? If it does, is there any workarounds? Many thanks

Re: Newbie Question: How to edit a host IP address

2010-08-20 Thread Samad Agha
at 1:24 PM, Samad Agha wrote: > > Hey All, > > > Overnight I have become the new DNS Admin for City of Glendale. Someone > just sent me an email telling me that our ns1 has been reporting a wrong IP > for one of his computers in the past couple of days. If you guys remember, I

Newbie Question: How to edit a host IP address

2010-08-20 Thread Samad Agha
Hey All, Overnight I have become the new DNS Admin for City of Glendale. Someone just sent me an email telling me that our ns1 has been reporting a wrong IP for one of his computers in the past couple of days. If you guys remember, I had the issue with our ns2 not being able to resolve rim.com &

Re: I get "No mail exchanger (MX) records available for rim.com" error just for a couple of domains

2010-08-19 Thread Samad Agha
Thanks to all who replied. Basically bouncing the in.named (/etc/init.d/inetsvc stop/start) fixed the problem. This sure was weird. Samad On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Dave Sparro wrote: > On 8/19/2010 2:58 PM, Samad Agha wrote: > >> Dave or anyone else who can help: >>

Re: I get "No mail exchanger (MX) records available for rim.com" error just for a couple of domains

2010-08-19 Thread Samad Agha
60.76, 69.147.125.65, 72.30.2.43 98.137.149.56 On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Dave Sparro wrote: > On 8/19/2010 2:33 PM, Samad Agha wrote: > >> 2- When I perform this query from our ns1 server I do get the correct >> result, but the same query from ns2 server fails &

Re: I get "No mail exchanger (MX) records available for rimm.com" error just for a couple of domains

2010-08-19 Thread Samad Agha
Samad On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Samad Agha wrote: > #nslookup > > set query=mx > > rimm.com > > *** No mail exchanger (MX) records available for rimm.com > > > Obviously Rimm's DNS cannot be down! What gives? Any ideas? >

I get "No mail exchanger (MX) records available for rimm.com" error just for a couple of domains

2010-08-19 Thread Samad Agha
#nslookup > set query=mx > rimm.com *** No mail exchanger (MX) records available for rimm.com Obviously Rimm's DNS cannot be down! What gives? Any ideas? ___ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-u

Re: How do I stress test my newly setup DNS BIND server?

2010-08-19 Thread Samad Agha
test all different functionalities of it before registering it > > (basically a stress test). Can someone show me some cool commands to > > do this? Thanks in advance. > > > > Samad Agha > > ___ > > bind-users mailing list

How do I stress test my newly setup DNS BIND server?

2010-08-19 Thread Samad Agha
I'm new to setting up DNS servers, I used Webmin to set it up, and now need to test all different functionalities of it before registering it (basically a stress test). Can someone show me some cool commands to do this? Thanks in advance. Samad

How do I stress test my newly setup DNS BIND server?

2010-08-19 Thread Samad Agha
I'm new to setting up DNS servers, I used Webmin to set it up, and now need to test all different functionalities of it before registering it (basically a stress test). Can someone show me some cool commands to do this? Thanks in advance. Samad