[Cialug] Bind...

[Nathan C. Smith]

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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