BIND is a free, open source software implementation of the Domain Name System (DNS) protocols. The name BIND stands for "Berkeley Internet Name Domain", because the software originated in the early 1980s at the University of California at Berkeley. BIND is currently maintained and developed by the ...
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Can I use Vanity name servers for slave zone? [closed]
I am new to the whole DNS things but this is what I have done so far.
I have setup a master zone using Bind DNS and I am using zonomi.com to host my salve zone.
Following zonomi's documentation I ...
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Using mixed rate-limiting modes in bind
I'm using a version of bind with the rate-limiting patch, and I want my DNS server to rate-limit requests according to this scheme:
>=5/sec: drop and slip alternate requests
>=20/sec: drop all ...
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Which /etc/hosts is correct for kerberos & ldap? [closed]
While following the instructions on the tutorial at http://www.danbishop.org/2012/06/02/ubuntu-12-04-ultimate-server-guide/#part-1-dhcp-and-dns I am choosing to use BIND9 instead of dnsmasq since it ...
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Configuring Bind dns with webmin
I am new to VPS. I have recently bought a new VPS and trying to set up Bind DNS server on it using webmin.
My VPS provider has provided me with three IPS.
Main IP: 50.*.*.10
Additional IP 1: ...
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creating a domain name for a specific subnet only
Virtual Machine has 2 NICS, installed are WWW/DNS server application in one.
Server is configured as 192.168.8.10; WWW can be accessed as http://192.168.8.10
I created a domain test.ab for my www ...
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What's the importance of the email address in the DNS SOA lookup?
Is there a real importance in this, except to publish the email address of the person responsible for some DNS zone?
In our BIND configuration, we put a mailling list as the responsible for our ...
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Name Servers not resolving
I just got myself an unmanaged Dedicated VPS from OVH and I don't have a prior experience of setting up servers or DNS servers but I followed a couple of tuts and installed webmin and created NS Zones ...
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Bulk BIND zones creation [closed]
How can I create zones for 50 domains on Ubuntu 12 VPS? I have webmin (which allows me to use BIND to create/ manage zones). I was able to figure out what gets created to add a zone successfully.
But ...
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Configuring bind with reverse DNS in external server
I'm having troubles configuring BIND with the reverse DNS being made by an external server in the hosting company.
Lets assume i have a domain "server.com" that should contain 2 nameservers: ...
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Virtualmin sends all sites to root with Public IP in DNS [closed]
I've been racking my brain out on this one and Googled the problem to death, with constant reinstalls, different hostnames, etc....
I've got a domain set up in godaddy, call it mydomain.com. I set up ...
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Configuring Bind for serving as nameserver for multiple domains
I have installed bind9 on a Debian VPS, and use it as nameserver for one of my domains. It works well. dig reports correct entries.
I now wish to use this nameserver for four more domains, and am a ...
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Determine if domain is zone apex or subdomain [migrated]
I'm trying to write a script where part of its functionality depends on if a user-provided domain is a zone apex (example.com) or not (www.example.com). What is a robust way to determine if I'm ...
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Non-dot-wildcard (*-foo.example.com) for bind?
It seems there's no way to tell bind that *-foo.example.com should resolve to eg. 10.1.2.3, while *-bar.example.com resolves to 10.2.3.4. Is there any workaround? Can some names eg. resolve with an ...
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BIND issue: nsupdate unable to update reverse zone
I'm testing my ddns update config (for ISC DHCP hosted on same server) with nsupdate, and while the forward zone updates correctly:
# nsupdate
> server 127.0.0.1
> key dhcpupdate ...
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BIND DNS issues, and a request for config opinion
I'm pretty new to configuring BIND, and I'm having a few issues with the configuration I'm using. I've googled for going on a week now, and either I can't figure out the proper search terms to use, ...
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How to close down BIND 9.3.6 on FreeBSD 7.2
I have taken over the responsibility for an old system. I am planning to get new hardware and decommission this exciting server very soon. In the mean time my hosting-provider is warning me that I am ...
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Dig Connection Error on SRV Records
Using Bind9 running on localhost.
I have two records in my DNS zone file:
_kerberos._udp.GROUP-42.SNOOPY.ISP IN SRV 0 0 88 kirby.group-42.snoopy.isp.
kirby.group-42.snoopy.isp. IN A ...
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Variables in named.conf
My server have one IP and several domains hosted.
One and same IP appear in named.conf and several zone files.
When the IP address of the server changes, I need manually to change all those IP's.
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How can I get BIND to skip resolving a domain and always send a specified IP?
I'm running a BIND 9 server. There is a domain I want BIND to not look up and instead always return the A record as an IP I set in the config somewhere.
How can I do this? I can't seem to find any ...
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DDNS client for Windows
I need to manually update BIND DNS from a Windows server. The network team has given my IP address permissions to write to DNS. I'm having trouble finding a good client. I see that nsupdate is a good ...
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Problems with subdomains. Doesn't works properly
I have server with Centos 6.2. I configured bind to handle a subdomain, but it sometime works, sometime doesn't.
When it doesn't work in chrome in 'network' tab I can see:
GET ...
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need to configure BIND server query logging with versions
I've been trying to get BIND server query logging working, creating 3 versions, max 100mb each. The system is SUSE SLES 11. I have found numerous how to articles on the web but none of them do ...
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Indicate that a segment I have authority to use “inverse resolution”. (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) [closed]
I have Centos installed on my virtual machine.
I show some settings that I have:
In /etc/sysconfig/network:
NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=dns1.example.com
In vi /etc/hosts:
192.168.1.3 ...
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Amazon Route 53 alternative (BIND?) in my case
I have this project / research where I need to test/work on an EC2 instance with multiple domains (100+) in it.
Basically I added an entry (for every domain) in httpd.conf
All these domains will ...
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DNS not resolving through db.cache enteries
i m facing a problem in which mine DNS server is not resolving via db.cache eatery.
i want to revolve xxxx.mnc019.mcc502.gprs via y.y.y.y ip (db.cache) but it is getting resolved via x.x.x.x ip ( ...
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multiple domains on bind9 nameserver; one is not working
Bind9 DNS sever
I have problem with setting up my dns server and another domain under it.
First I have my master domain set up as a ns1 name server and it works.
I need to add another domain which ...
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BIND with redirect sub-domain only
For my next learning task, is it possible to redirect only a subdomain but have the main go directly to the web?
zone "zone.net" { +++ this one goes to place online
type forward;
...
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DDNS from Windows/BIND with DHCP keys
Background: We plan to create a SQL AlwaysOn Availability Group cluster across multiple subnets. Therefore we're going to need the Windows 2008 R2 servers in this cluster to be able to update DNS ...
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DNS Server conflicting with hostname and domainname commands
For the purpose of installing some clustered product, I had to setup an internal DNS server. I'm running CentOS and bind9. I'm aiming for domain name "mydomain.local" and the machine the DNS server is ...
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BIND not pointing to right IPs
This is more of an experiment to learn and understand BIND/NAMED more but here is what I have.
I set my computers DNS to my linux server's IP. I have BIND9 running with the following entry:
$TTL ...
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Ping on Linux with Bind produces a round robin effect?
I am setting up DNS (Bind 9.8.1) on a Ubuntu 12.04. I some CNAMEs for the server. When I ping the server it bounces though all the names. Is this default behavior? How can I get this just to respond ...
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bind zone transfer between slaves
I have three dns servers 1) Hidden master that is not accessible to outside. 2) public slave that allowed access from outside. and one tertiary slave that sits on our DR site. Since the master is not ...
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postfix mails goes to hotmail junk
I have a problem that I can't solve which is whenever I send an email from my mail server to Hotmail, it gets into the Junk folder.
I'm using CentOS 6.3, SELINUX is disabled.
Here are my named zone ...
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migrating a BIND host to a new master
I'm currently in the process of migrating my BIND master host to a new physical machine and IP. I've installed on the new master and tested out updating a zone file and seeing the slaves take the new ...
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How can I configurer BIND named to return a local IP rather than a public IP for internal users?
I have setup a BIND named server and I am trying to figure out how to get it to return a local IP, rather than a public IP, for a handful of servers that we have.
Here's an example of what the name ...
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Bind cannot query some specific domains
Could help me to solve the bind software problem?
I installed the bind SW on my redhat server, the version of bind is BIND 9.7.1-P2.
The bind SW cannot query some domains, example nhaban.com, ...
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BIND works with a domain name exception
I have finally migrated from Dnsmasq to Bind, but I have an uncommon problem. I have 3 domains working very good, but one is not working.
The only difference that I find is that the domain name ...
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Puppet: build DNS file from node config (or: how do I iterate over node variables globally)
I also use puppet for my nodes. I am also running a (BIND) dns server.
Would it be possible to use the $aliases variable I have for each node in a template for the DNS module?
My nodes look like ...
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Mail server, binding postfix to an IP address, network unreachable
I configured a DNS service using bind. It works and I created a domain named test.com . The problem is not in how I configured bind, I already have a positive feedback: I tested it using dig, which ...
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Ubuntu server 12.04 bind9 dns query rejected
SOLUTION:
I was editing the wrong named.conf, which was rejecting queries and binded to 127.0.0.1 AND port 953. I needed it at my external IP and at port 53.
Thanks for you help gaise.
btw, i have ...
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DNS setup on Centos 6 VPS
I have a domain registered through namecheap.com, and I have 2 nameservers for my domain (ns1, ns2.domain.com). Both nameservers are being pointed to my VPS IP address. I can access my VPS fine ...
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named.conf to include zone file and opendkim conf
I would like to separate out opendkim default.txt from zone file and to be include in named.conf instead.
I'm a little bit confused on which approach I should use and which is the correct one.
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Get Recusrive Queries Stats from BIND 9.3 logs
I need to create a report with the top 30 domains that are requested from our Recursive DNS servers. The report must be in the following format:
Domain Number of Requests
For example:
Google.com; ...
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DNS query log file permissions, apparmor skips usr.sbin.named
Test Environment: virtualbox guest, SUSE SLES 11, BIND 9.6
Production Environment: virtualbox guest, SUSE SLES 11, BIND 9.5
The goal is to get DNS query logging in a rotation of three 100mb files. I ...
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named server takes 200+ MB of memory [duplicate]
I have setup a named DNS server. It takes 200+ MB of RAM.
The datasize and max-cache-size options seem to have no effect all. Here is my named.conf
options {
directory "/var/named";
...
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DNS Reflector Attacks — protection
[~]# /usr/bin/dig +recurs @MYIP www.facebook.com
; <<>> DiG 9.8.2rc1-RedHat-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.el6_3.5 <<>> +recurs @MYIP www.facebook.com
; (1 server found)
;; global options: ...
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ubuntu bind reverse look up fails
When I test my reverse zone from local machine by host ip, it says it is ok. 1.2.3.4.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer host.domain.co. however when i use tools like mxtoolbox or dnsstuff i get these ...
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DNS answer with/without authority, additional sections
dig @ns7.embarqservices.net www.126.com A +dnssec +multiline
; <<>> DiG 9.7.3 <<>> @ns7.embarqservices.net www.126.com A +dnssec +multiline
; (1 server found)
;; global ...
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How to add a CNAME for localhost in BIND 9?
I am doing web development and host the local versions of sites on my machine. I have Linux Slackware 14.0 with BIND 9.9.1-P3. In my named.conf I have this:
zone "localhost" IN {
type master;
...
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DNS mask for Route53 crazy delegation set
I really don't know the terms to explain this problem, but please bare with me just a little bit.
I have an AWS Route53 with a lot of clients, and I would like to build something like a DNS server in ...
