[Cialug] Bind...

[Tony Bibbs]

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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