[pecon...@mesanetworks.net: Re: question about bind9 from a clueless paranoid] (re-sent after a computer user malfunction)

2011-04-08 Thread Paul E Condon
- Forwarded message from Paul E Condon - Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 20:51:59 -0600 From: Paul E Condon To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: question about bind9 from a clueless paranoid Message-ID: <20110407025159.ga4...@big.lan.gnu> Mail-Followup-To: debian-user@lists.debi

Re: question about bind9 from a clueless paranoid

2011-04-06 Thread Brian
On Wed 06 Apr 2011 at 12:20:42 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > To do this usefully, I have to first figure out how to configure my newly > installed instance of BIND9. Correct? I don't think I'm there yet... If all you want to do is have named do lookups and cache the replies it works without chang

Re: question about bind9 from a clueless paranoid

2011-04-06 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20110406_121404, Brian wrote: > On Tue 05 Apr 2011 at 23:24:47 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > On 20110404_190551, Brian wrote: > > > I came to the conclusion there was no risk to the server (unbound in my > > > case) as long as the server was not answering queries from outside my > > > netwo

Re: question about bind9 from a clueless paranoid

2011-04-06 Thread Brian
On Tue 05 Apr 2011 at 23:24:47 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20110404_190551, Brian wrote: > > I came to the conclusion there was no risk to the server (unbound in my > > case) as long as the server was not answering queries from outside my > > network. Reassurance would be welcome but I'm pret

Re: question about bind9 from a clueless paranoid

2011-04-05 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20110404_190551, Brian wrote: > On Mon 04 Apr 2011 at 07:13:57 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > But I can't find any information more recent than 2008 by > > googling. Surely there have been some more recent developments. > > What has happened? Surely something has happened, but I find nothi

Re: question about bind9 from a clueless paranoid

2011-04-04 Thread Brian
On Mon 04 Apr 2011 at 07:13:57 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > But I can't find any information more recent than 2008 by > googling. Surely there have been some more recent developments. > What has happened? Surely something has happened, but I find nothing. The problem you might face will not li

Re: question about bind9 from a clueless paranoid

2011-04-04 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Paul E Condon wrote: > I'm running Wheezy on several i386 boxes. Over the weekend I installed > bind9 and dhcp3-server on one of them. While starting to set up dynDNS, > I noticed a comment in /etc/bind/named.conf.options (this is a file > that had just been install

Re: question about bind9 from a clueless paranoid

2011-04-04 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 04 Apr 2011 07:13:57 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I'm running Wheezy on several i386 boxes. Over the weekend I installed > bind9 and dhcp3-server on one of them. While starting to set up dynDNS, > I noticed a comment in /etc/bind/named.conf.options (this is a file that > had just been ins

question about bind9 from a clueless paranoid

2011-04-04 Thread Paul E Condon
I'm running Wheezy on several i386 boxes. Over the weekend I installed bind9 and dhcp3-server on one of them. While starting to set up dynDNS, I noticed a comment in /etc/bind/named.conf.options (this is a file that had just been installed by the bind9 package): // ports to talk. See http