[Cialug] Bind...

[David Champion]

http://www.netadmintools.com/art234.html

-dc

Tony Bibbs wrote:
> So how do you turn recursion off?  I find it funny they mention it in 
> the context of BIND but don't tell you the setting to turn it off.
> 
> --Tony
> 
> Nathan C. Smith wrote:
> 
>> I don't doubt their results, but the study was sponsored by a DNS 
>> solution
>> provider.
>>
>> IMHO: BIND defines cryptic
>>
>> -Nate
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: David Champion [mailto:dchampion at visionary.com] Sent: Thursday, 
>>> October 12, 2006 2:41 PM
>>> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
>>> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Bind...
>>>
>>>
>>> That's nifty. Was it a bug in the init script? Does gentoo use lock 
>>> files for this type of thing? i.e. Mandriva has a file 
>>> /var/lock/subsys/named. If a service dies in such a way that it 
>>> leaves a stale lock file, you sometimes have to go delete it before 
>>> the service will restart.
>>>
>>> BTW - speaking of bind, saw this article today :
>>>
>>> http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArt
>>> icleBasic&articleId=9004020
>>>
>>> -dc
>>>
>>> Tony Bibbs wrote:
>>>
>>>> Just a follow-up in case anybody finds it helpful...during my last
>>>> emerge of bind under Gentoo to patch a security hole in 
>>>
>>> Bind, apparently
>>>
>>>> the old bind process didn't die when I did a restart so I 
>>>
>>> somehow had
>>>
>>>> two bind instances running.  The old one kept sending the 
>>>
>>> old serials
>>>
>>>> with the old settings for one of my domains.  It was 
>>>
>>> frustrating as hell
>>>
>>>> to figure out but a quick fix once I had the "ah-ha" moment.
>>>>
>>>> --Tony
>>>>
>>>> dave at usalug.org wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Try changining the line:
>>>>>
>>>>> severity warning;
>>>>>
>>>>> to a lesser option..... options not equal to or higher 
>>>
>>> than "warning"
>>>
>>>>> won't get logged otherwise.
>>>>>
>>>>> Options include:
>>>>>
>>>>> [ severity (critical | error | warning | notice |
>>>>>                  info | debug [ level ] | dynamic ); ]
>>>>>
>>>>> HTH's
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, October 5, 2006 4:07 pm, Tony Bibbs wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I've added this:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> logging { channel simple_log { file "/var/log/named.log" 
>>>
>>> versions 3
>>>
>>>>>> size 5m; severity warning; print-time yes; print-severity yes; 
>>>>>> print-category
>>>>>
>>>>> yes; };
>>>>>
>>>>>> category default { simple_log; };
>>>>>>
>>>>>> };
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I restarted named and lo named.log file shows up.  If I chown the 
>>>>>> file to the named user I get no luck either.  What next?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --Tony
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> dave at usalug.org wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Check the named.conf file .... see if it doesn't have a section 
>>>>>>> stating  "where" the logs are going too.... if there aren't any, 
>>>>>>> you may need to modify the file to enable logging.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Thu, October 5, 2006 2:42 pm, Tony Bibbs wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I have a fairly standard Gentoo box running bind and 
>>>
>>> for the life
>>>
>>>>>>>> of me I can't find a log file associated with it.  I 
>>>
>>> did a man on
>>>
>>>>>>>> named and see a -d <level> which turns up the verbosity of the 
>>>>>>>> messages which does me no good if I don't have a file 
>>>
>>> to look in.
>>>
>>>>>>>> My issue is zone updates to a slave aren't happening 
>>>
>>> and I need to
>>>
>>>>>>>> iron this out and without a useful log I can't fix it.  I have 
>>>>>>>> checked  /var/log/messages to see if it might be 
>>>
>>> logging there but
>>>
>>>>>>>> it isn't.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thoughts?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> --Tony
>>>
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