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The DNS protocols are part of the core Internet standards. They specify the process by which one computer can find another computer on the basis of its name. What it means to say "BIND is an implementation of the DNS protocols" is that the BIND software distribution contains all of the software ...

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Bind: non existing PTR record

Here is my bind query.log: 28-May-2012 13:34:00.370 queries: info: client IINTERNAL_DNS_IP#49428: view internal: query: 44.33.22.11.in-addr.arpa IN PTR + (EXTRENAL_DNS_IP) 28-May-2012 13:34:00.532 ...
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How does BIND work? [closed]

Possible Duplicate: What is a glue record? I just can't understand how a server running BIND at the same place(or IP) that my website is running is going to provide the DNS records to ...
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Why example.com redirects and www.example.com not?

I have a working domain www.mydomain.es and I need that mydomain.com and www.mydomain.com redirects to it. This is my bind config: $ttl 38400 mydomain.com. IN SOA r12345.ovh.net. ...
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Reverse DNS doesn't work - NXDOMAIN

I'm trying to setup a slave DNS server but the reverse mapping doesn't seem to resolve. When I try 'nslookup nslookup 94.249.214.137' it returns Server: 66.96.208.21 Address: ...
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Glue Records, Bind9 and Ubuntu 11.10 - DNS Server not Responding?

I'm attempting to create a DNS server to serve copies of a zone for 'example.com'. Preamble: The current setup includes: Ubuntu 11.10 Bind9 Apache 2 I have created Glue records at the registrar ...
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subdomains don't work after disable recursion

I disabled dns recursion because of security alert of intodns.com by adding options { allow-recursion { localhost; }; }; now I set name server of my domain (ariafile.ir) on ns1.ariafile.ir and ...
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Running DNS for multiple domains on a debian server

I'm pretty new to this! I'm trying to redirect my url to my server, so all I did was this : http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/412 which consisted of adding a ...
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Errors from intoDNS, how to solve them?

I've got following errors and I'm really frustrated, it is about two days struggling to solve the problem, am just making things worse I think! When I check mydomain in intodns I get the following ...
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Bind DNS server is not starting just page got refreshed, why?

I have webmin CP and have installed BIND DNS server. When I click Start BIND link on upper right corner of the page nothing happens, just my page got refreshed? Is this normal or should I see STOP ...
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Will my DNS secondaries work properly if I only permit udp/53 traffic from the Internet?

I run a "hidden primary master" DNS setup on BIND, so only secondaries are visible to the outside world. The firewall currently permits traffic from the Internet to both udp/53 and tcp/53 on the ...
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BIND9 - Noob issue on how to connect to the main domain

I'm pretty sure I'm doing something stupid, but let's ask anyway. I'm trying to create "hostnames" on my LAN machines (eg. when you ping "chris", Chris' machine - IP 12.34.56.78 - respond to that). ...
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Bind DNS server: redirect only subdomain

We've some domain (mydom.tld) and in the svn subdomain we have the Subversion server. This server resides in the main office, and must be accessed inside this office as well as outside it. So, now ...
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Easy way to shorten up bind9 zone config?

Is there an easy way to put some kind of variables into bind9 zone files? Lets say i have a bunch of different zone-files, and i would like to define my ip's in one config file. So that i can make ...
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Bind9 minimal zone configuration seems not working

I have installed bind9 on debian squeeze. This is my named.conf.local file: options { directory "/var/cache/bind"; auth-nxdomain no; listen-on { any; }; listen-on-v6 { any; }; }; ...
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Ubuntu freezes when I run “ps” or “top”

Ubuntu 11.10 Bind9 (not working, won't accept connections) (named-checkconf and named-checkzone both work) OpenVPN (community edition) (working correctly) (bridged mode) PHP5 & PHP5-gd Mysql5 ...
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Limit which ports a user can bind

I'm working on a setup for a Linux based system in which user applications are executed in Linux Containers to provide confinement and limited capabilities. Each application is launched under in a ...
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Evaluating nameserver

We are planning to set up our own dns-server for managing all our subdomians. I wan't to set the leasetime to 1 hour. We going to expect a peak amount of 20 Million DNS requests per hour. I want to ...
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How to configure bind for a private subdomain?

I am attempting to define a subdomain for a private network (RFC1918) behind a NAT firewall; let's call it priv.example.com. Normally, and from what I can gather on various websites, this could be ...
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Configuring Bind9 Ubuntu Server

I Just installed a new server and this is my scenario: Public (valid, static) IP acquired Domain name acquired BIND9 installed, maybe wrong configured Apache2 installed, running Server Name: ICARUS ...
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How to set up an alternate domain while duplicating CNAMEs

Our organization (with a domain, say, a.com) just bought a new domain (b.com), and we would like to set up the DNS so that we have a second identity as b.com while keeping a.com. We are running ...
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Bind9 chroot needed if use of apparmor nodays?

I'm redoing my external dns servers and thinking about skipping chroot this time. And using apparmor or selinux as an alternativen. Any thoughts? I'm using team cymrus bind template as ..template :) ...
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configuring bind for self hosting dns

I have been reading about bind for a few days now, but one thing I am still unsure of is, how do I make my DNS settings available to the world?
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Setup local caching DNS server for speed

I was wondering if it was possible to setup a local DNS server though BIND9 that contained a large amount of entries for DNS names, similar to what an ISP DNS server or something like Google DNS would ...
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Should I avoid using git to track individual files with separate history, such as in /var/named?

In January 2012 Randal Schwartz gave a talk called Introduction to Git that I very much enjoyed, but I was left confused about his admonition not to use git to track individual files with unrelated or ...
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BIND Whitelist Config

Im trying to setup a 'whitelist' DNS server for a small school network to prevent the kids accessing inappropriate sites (ie. students should only be able to access a pre-selected list of sites) and ...
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Comprehensive Unix BIND DNS guide

I'm running the latest version of CentOS on which I'm currently hosting Node.js projects with MongoDB and Lighttpd. Everything is running very smooth but now I want to manage my own DNS on the ...
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ssh can't connect using hostname

I'm setting up some server but I stubbled into an issue with one server. I setup a local dns server, and when I try to connect to this server with ssh alpha@alpha.stvns.com I will get : Permission ...
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BIND, Master, Slaves and Notify

It might seem like a very basic question, but, how is a master DNS server aware of its slaves? I mean, does it parse the zone file and determine where to send the NOTIFY message? And if that is the ...
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My ISP set up a PTR record for my mail server, but some places aren't seeing it

I have a VPS running Windows 2008 server with plesk 9, which I am using for email. I asked to my ISP to add a PTR record, which they did but my mails still droping into spam box. I have checked ...
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named gets killed

Every once in a while, my server will kill named. This gets logged: Apr 16 17:00:08 li127-203 kernel: Out of memory: Kill process 15723 (named) score 38 or sacrifice child Apr 16 17:00:08 li127-203 ...
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dig does not receive an answer

bind config zone "minskmag.by" { type master; file "/etc/bind/named/minskmag.by"; }; zone file $TTL 3600 @ IN SOA ns1.thestudio.by. root.thestudio.by. (2012041615 10800 ...
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BIND DNS Master with Zerigo Slaves - BIND won't update the slave servers

I've tried to resolve this myself and have looked through Google and Stack but haven't found the answer I'm looking for. Currently on a VPS server I have BIND DNS installed as a MASTER DNS Server. I ...
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$GENERATE'd records competing with real PTR records

I have a zone (1.168.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA) $GENERATEing PTR records from 1-254. However, I also have some custom PTR records, within that range, that are declared aside from the generate directive. ...
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Ubuntu 10.04 bind9 local zone include files and apparmor

Rather than putting all my zones in one named.conf.local file, I'd like to have them in groups that I can manage as separate files. So, I've tried putting the following into named.conf.local: ...
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bind9 dlz/mysql at ubuntu segfault libmysqlclient.so

I have a big problem. I installed the bind9 nameserver to three different computer. two Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS, and one Ubuntu 11.10 I compiled it 9.7.0, 9.7.3, 9.9.0 with this method: ./configure ...
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Setting up DNS for e-mail serving

I have a CentOS6 Server and wanted to install Zimbra 7. I was getting an /etc/hosts error and found out that I need to run a local DNS Server due to split-dns issues. I installed Bind and am trying ...
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lots of dns requests from China, should I worry?

I have turned on dns query logs, and when running "tail -f /var/log/syslog" I see that I get hundreds of identical requests from a single ip address: Apr 7 12:36:13 server17 named[26294]: client ...
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DNSSec DLV auto zone signing

What is the proper setup for Bind 9.7, DLV look-aside validation and periodic zone signing? I have auto-dnssec maintain and update-policy local set, but after some time I start to get messages like: ...
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BIND9: What is the “right” way to create a new zone?

I have set up a BIND9 on a Linux box and I'm playing with the nsupdate command for some time now. It works pretty good for changing a zone's RR (commands update create and update delete). I am ...
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BIND9: Combining key and ACL for allow-update

I have set up a BIND 9 server and configured cryptographic keys in order to allow updates from a client. Now in my named.conf, I have set the following: allow-update { key dns1.example.org.; }; ...
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Temporary DNS server

What DNS software is good for temporary usage while doing server maintenance? Since there is not a secondary server available, I would like a solution that can just run on a desktop/laptop just to ...
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Getting bind9 to answer on a Dual NIC machine?

I have this problem: My domain registrar are stubborn, and requires me to have 2 nameservers. So now I have done this: ns1.sebbe.biz --> 178.174.190.175 ns2.sebbe.biz --> 178.174.189.82 Port 53 ...
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Mac OS X Lion BIND DNS settings for local site not working

I'm trying to set up a web app hosted on my mac in which people on my network can access via http://custom.local/ I can access it on the mac since I have set up an Apache VirtualHost and in ...
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BIND master/slave does not respond for queries for its slave

Systems are all Centos 6.2 Lets say I have a masterdns with IP 10.2.1.2, authoritative for the 10.2.1.X subnet and let say it is domain example.com I have another two subnets, 10.2.2.X and 10.1.2.X ...
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Bind accepts only local connections

I am trying to fix the Bind (named) on CentOS server which only accepts connections from localhost. My server has local IP 192.168.2.2 and dig works if I run it on same sever where named is ...
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Linux DNS Bind Domain Subdomain Configuration

I have a question about configuration of bind for domain and subdomain. For example, I have the main domain of "example.lcl", and under that I have the subdomain of "alpha.example.lcl" at site A and ...
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Configuring Bind9 on ubuntu

I am trying to configure name server on Ubuntu just for learning. I have followed this tutorial. After configuring bind9 I have restarted it and works well. I have no registered domain name and public ...
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What DNS server to use for dynamic load-balancing of website?

I will have 2 servers in different datacenters (different countries) and I want to use DNS load-balancing mainly for High Availability of website hosted on those 2 servers. It is just ad tracking ...
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dns/sites transfer to a new server

I have a current server with a variety of websites on it. My name servers are the same has my business domain. This server uses cpanel. http://abccompany.com ns1.abccompany.com ns2.abccompany.com ...
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facebook.com not resolving with an internal bind9 caching DNS server but resolved against external OpenDNS server

We have a local caching server at our office using bind9. From this morning onwards, users are not able to go to facebook.com. All other sites are working. A local query against our local DNS serve ...

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