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-<!-- $Id: FAQ.xml,v 1.4.6.3 2005/11/02 22:53:51 marka Exp $ -->
-
-<article class="faq">
- <title>Frequently Asked Questions about BIND 9</title>
- <qandaset defaultlabel='qanda'>
- <qandaentry>
- <question>
- <para>
- Why doesn't -u work on Linux 2.2.x when I build with
- --enable-threads?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Linux threads do not fully implement the Posix threads
- (pthreads) standard. In particular, setuid() operates only
- on the current thread, not the full process. Because of
- this limitation, BIND 9 cannot use setuid() on Linux as it
- can on all other supported platforms. setuid() cannot be
- called before creating threads, since the server does not
- start listening on reserved ports until after threads have
- started.
- </para>
- <para>
- In the 2.2.18 or 2.3.99-pre3 and newer kernels, the ability
- to preserve capabilities across a setuid() call is present.
- This allows BIND 9 to call setuid() early, while retaining
- the ability to bind reserved ports. This is a Linux-specific
- hack.
- </para>
- <para>
- On a 2.2 kernel, BIND 9 does drop many root privileges, so
- it should be less of a security risk than a root process
- that has not dropped privileges.
- </para>
- <para>
- If Linux threads ever work correctly, this restriction will
- go away.
- </para>
- <para>
- Configuring BIND9 with the --disable-threads option (the
- default) causes a non-threaded version to be built, which
- will allow -u to be used.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question>
- <para>
- Why does named log the warning message <quote>no TTL specified -
- using SOA MINTTL instead</quote>?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Your zone file is illegal according to RFC1035. It must either
- have a line like:
- </para>
- <informalexample>
- <programlisting>
-$TTL 86400</programlisting>
- </informalexample>
- <para>
- at the beginning, or the first record in it must have a TTL field,
- like the "84600" in this example:
- </para>
- <informalexample>
- <programlisting>
-example.com. 86400 IN SOA ns hostmaster ( 1 3600 1800 1814400 3600 )</programlisting>
- </informalexample>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question>
- <para>
- Why do I see 5 (or more) copies of named on Linux?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Linux threads each show up as a process under ps. The
- approximate number of threads running is n+4, where n is
- the number of CPUs. Note that the amount of memory used
- is not cumulative; if each process is using 10M of memory,
- only a total of 10M is used.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question>
- <para>
- Why does BIND 9 log <quote>permission denied</quote> errors accessing
- its configuration files or zones on my Linux system even
- though it is running as root?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- On Linux, BIND 9 drops most of its root privileges on
- startup. This including the privilege to open files owned
- by other users. Therefore, if the server is running as
- root, the configuration files and zone files should also
- be owned by root.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question>
- <para>
- Why do I get errors like <quote>dns_zone_load: zone foo/IN: loading
- master file bar: ran out of space</quote>?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- This is often caused by TXT records with missing close
- quotes. Check that all TXT records containing quoted strings
- have both open and close quotes.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question>
- <para>
- How do I produce a usable core file from a multithreaded
- named on Linux?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- If the Linux kernel is 2.4.7 or newer, multithreaded core
- dumps are usable (that is, the correct thread is dumped).
- Otherwise, if using a 2.2 kernel, apply the kernel patch
- found in contrib/linux/coredump-patch and rebuild the kernel.
- This patch will cause multithreaded programs to dump the
- correct thread.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question>
- <para>
- How do I restrict people from looking up the server version?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Put a "version" option containing something other than the
- real version in the "options" section of named.conf. Note
- doing this will not prevent attacks and may impede people
- trying to diagnose problems with your server. Also it is
- possible to "fingerprint" nameservers to determine their
- version.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question>
- <para>
- How do I restrict only remote users from looking up the
- server version?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- The following view statement will intercept lookups as the
- internal view that holds the version information will be
- matched last. The caveats of the previous answer still
- apply, of course.
- </para>
- <informalexample>
- <programlisting>
-view "chaos" chaos {
- match-clients { &lt;those to be refused&gt;; };
- allow-query { none; };
- zone "." {
- type hint;
- file "/dev/null"; // or any empty file
- };
-};</programlisting>
- </informalexample>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question>
- <para>
- What do <quote>no source of entropy found</quote> or <quote>could not
- open entropy source foo</quote> mean?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- The server requires a source of entropy to perform certain
- operations, mostly DNSSEC related. These messages indicate
- that you have no source of entropy. On systems with
- /dev/random or an equivalent, it is used by default. A
- source of entropy can also be defined using the random-device
- option in named.conf.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question>
- <para>
- I installed BIND 9 and restarted named, but it's still BIND 8. Why?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- BIND 9 is installed under /usr/local by default. BIND 8
- is often installed under /usr. Check that the correct named
- is running.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question>
- <para>
- I'm trying to use TSIG to authenticate dynamic updates or
- zone transfers. I'm sure I have the keys set up correctly,
- but the server is rejecting the TSIG. Why?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- This may be a clock skew problem. Check that the the clocks
- on the client and server are properly synchronised (e.g.,
- using ntp).
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question>
- <para>
- I'm trying to compile BIND 9, and "make" is failing due to
- files not being found. Why?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Using a parallel or distributed "make" to build BIND 9 is
- not supported, and doesn't work. If you are using one of
- these, use normal make or gmake instead.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question>
- <para>
- I have a BIND 9 master and a BIND 8.2.3 slave, and the
- master is logging error messages like <quote>notify to 10.0.0.1#53
- failed: unexpected end of input</quote>. What's wrong?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- This error message is caused by a known bug in BIND 8.2.3
- and is fixed in BIND 8.2.4. It can be safely ignored - the
- notify has been acted on by the slave despite the error
- message.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question>
- <para>
- I keep getting log messages like the following. Why?
- </para>
- <para>
- Dec 4 23:47:59 client 10.0.0.1#1355: updating zone
- 'example.com/IN': update failed: 'RRset exists (value
- dependent)' prerequisite not satisfied (NXRRSET)
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- DNS updates allow the update request to test to see if
- certain conditions are met prior to proceeding with the
- update. The message above is saying that conditions were
- not met and the update is not proceeding. See doc/rfc/rfc2136.txt
- for more details on prerequisites.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question>
- <para>
- I keep getting log messages like the following. Why?
- </para>
- <para>
- Jun 21 12:00:00.000 client 10.0.0.1#1234: update denied
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Someone is trying to update your DNS data using the RFC2136
- Dynamic Update protocol. Windows 2000 machines have a habit
- of sending dynamic update requests to DNS servers without
- being specifically configured to do so. If the update
- requests are coming from a Windows 2000 machine, see
- <ulink
- url="http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q246/8/04.asp">
- http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q246/8/04.asp
- </ulink>
- for information about how to turn them off.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question>
- <para>
- I see a log message like the following. Why?
- </para>
- <para>
- couldn't open pid file '/var/run/named.pid': Permission denied
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- You are most likely running named as a non-root user, and
- that user does not have permission to write in /var/run.
- The common ways of fixing this are to create a /var/run/named
- directory owned by the named user and set pid-file to
- "/var/run/named/named.pid", or set pid-file to "named.pid",
- which will put the file in the directory specified by the
- directory option (which, in this case, must be writable by
- the named user).
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question>
- <para>
- When I do a "dig . ns", many of the A records for the root
- servers are missing. Why?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- This is normal and harmless. It is a somewhat confusing
- side effect of the way BIND 9 does RFC2181 trust ranking
- and of the efforts BIND 9 makes to avoid promoting glue
- into answers.
- </para>
- <para>
- When BIND 9 first starts up and primes its cache, it receives
- the root server addresses as additional data in an authoritative
- response from a root server, and these records are eligible
- for inclusion as additional data in responses. Subsequently
- it receives a subset of the root server addresses as
- additional data in a non-authoritative (referral) response
- from a root server. This causes the addresses to now be
- considered non-authoritative (glue) data, which is not
- eligible for inclusion in responses.
- </para>
- <para>
- The server does have a complete set of root server addresses
- cached at all times, it just may not include all of them
- as additional data, depending on whether they were last
- received as answers or as glue. You can always look up the
- addresses with explicit queries like "dig a.root-servers.net A".
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question>
- <para>
- Zone transfers from my BIND 9 master to my Windows 2000
- slave fail. Why?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- This may be caused by a bug in the Windows 2000 DNS server
- where DNS messages larger than 16K are not handled properly.
- This can be worked around by setting the option "transfer-format
- one-answer;". Also check whether your zone contains domain
- names with embedded spaces or other special characters,
- like "John\032Doe\213s\032Computer", since such names have
- been known to cause Windows 2000 slaves to incorrectly
- reject the zone.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question>
- <para>
- Why don't my zones reload when I do an "rndc reload" or SIGHUP?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- A zone can be updated either by editing zone files and
- reloading the server or by dynamic update, but not both.
- If you have enabled dynamic update for a zone using the
- "allow-update" option, you are not supposed to edit the
- zone file by hand, and the server will not attempt to reload
- it.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question>
- <para>
- I can query the nameserver from the nameserver but not from other
- machines. Why?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- This is usually the result of the firewall configuration stopping
- the queries and / or the replies.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question>
- <para>
- How can I make a server a slave for both an internal and
- an external view at the same time? When I tried, both views
- on the slave were transferred from the same view on the master.
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- You will need to give the master and slave multiple IP
- addresses and use those to make sure you reach the correct
- view on the other machine.
- </para>
- <informalexample>
- <programlisting>
-Master: 10.0.1.1 (internal), 10.0.1.2 (external, IP alias)
- internal:
- match-clients { !10.0.1.2; !10.0.1.4; 10.0.1/24; };
- notify-source 10.0.1.1;
- transfer-source 10.0.1.1;
- query-source address 10.0.1.1;
- external:
- match-clients { any; };
- recursion no; // don't offer recursion to the world
- notify-source 10.0.1.2;
- transfer-source 10.0.1.2;
- query-source address 10.0.1.2;
-
-Slave: 10.0.1.3 (internal), 10.0.1.4 (external, IP alias)
- internal:
- match-clients { !10.0.1.2; !10.0.1.4; 10.0.1/24; };
- notify-source 10.0.1.3;
- transfer-source 10.0.1.3;
- query-source address 10.0.1.3;
- external:
- match-clients { any; };
- recursion no; // don't offer recursion to the world
- notify-source 10.0.1.4;
- transfer-source 10.0.1.4;
- query-source address 10.0.1.4;</programlisting>
- </informalexample>
- <para>
- You put the external address on the alias so that all the other
- dns clients on these boxes see the internal view by default.
- </para>
- </answer>
- <answer>
- <para>
- BIND 9.3 and later: Use TSIG to select the appropriate view.
- </para>
- <informalexample>
- <programlisting>
-Master 10.0.1.1:
- key "external" {
- algorithm hmac-md5;
- secret "xxxxxxxx";
- };
- view "internal" {
- match-clients { !key external; 10.0.1/24; };
- ...
- };
- view "external" {
- match-clients { key external; any; };
- server 10.0.0.2 { keys external; };
- recursion no;
- ...
- };
-
-Slave 10.0.1.2:
- key "external" {
- algorithm hmac-md5;
- secret "xxxxxxxx";
- };
- view "internal" {
- match-clients { !key external; 10.0.1/24; };
- ...
- };
- view "external" {
- match-clients { key external; any; };
- server 10.0.0.1 { keys external; };
- recursion no;
- ...
- };</programlisting>
- </informalexample>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question>
- <para>
- I have FreeBSD 4.x and "rndc-confgen -a" just sits there.
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- /dev/random is not configured. Use rndcontrol(8) to tell
- the kernel to use certain interrupts as a source of random
- events. You can make this permanent by setting rand_irqs
- in /etc/rc.conf.
- </para>
- <informalexample>
- <programlisting>
-/etc/rc.conf
-rand_irqs="3 14 15"</programlisting>
- </informalexample>
- <para>
- See also
- <ulink url="http://people.freebsd.org/~dougb/randomness.html">
- http://people.freebsd.org/~dougb/randomness.html
- </ulink>
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question>
- <para>
- Why is named listening on UDP port other than 53?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Named uses a system selected port to make queries of other
- nameservers. This behaviour can be overridden by using
- query-source to lock down the port and/or address. See
- also notify-source and transfer-source.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question>
- <para>
- I get error messages like <quote>multiple RRs of singleton type</quote>
- and <quote>CNAME and other data</quote> when transferring a zone. What
- does this mean?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- These indicate a malformed master zone. You can identify
- the exact records involved by transferring the zone using
- dig then running named-checkzone on it.
- </para>
- <informalexample>
- <programlisting>
-dig axfr example.com @master-server &gt; tmp
-named-checkzone example.com tmp</programlisting>
- </informalexample>
- <para>
- A CNAME record cannot exist with the same name as another record
- except for the DNSSEC records which prove its existance (NSEC).
- </para>
- <para>
- RFC 1034, Section 3.6.2: <quote>If a CNAME RR is present at a node,
- no other data should be present; this ensures that the data for a
- canonical name and its aliases cannot be different. This rule also
- insures that a cached CNAME can be used without checking with an
- authoritative server for other RR types.</quote>
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question>
- <para>
- I get error messages like <quote>named.conf:99: unexpected end
- of input</quote> where 99 is the last line of named.conf.
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Some text editors (notepad and wordpad) fail to put a line
- title indication (e.g. CR/LF) on the last line of a
- text file. This can be fixed by "adding" a blank line to
- the end of the file. Named expects to see EOF immediately
- after EOL and treats text files where this is not met as
- truncated.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question>
- <para>
- I get warning messages like <quote>zone example.com/IN: refresh:
- failure trying master 1.2.3.4#53: timed out</quote>.
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Check that you can make UDP queries from the slave to the master
- </para>
- <informalexample>
- <programlisting>
-dig +norec example.com soa @1.2.3.4</programlisting>
- </informalexample>
- <para>
- You could be generating queries faster than the slave can
- cope with. Lower the serial query rate.
- </para>
- <informalexample>
- <programlisting>
-serial-query-rate 5; // default 20</programlisting>
- </informalexample>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question>
- <para>
- How do I share a dynamic zone between multiple views?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- You choose one view to be master and the second a slave and
- transfer the zone between views.
- </para>
- <informalexample>
- <programlisting>
-Master 10.0.1.1:
- key "external" {
- algorithm hmac-md5;
- secret "xxxxxxxx";
- };
-
- key "mykey" {
- algorithm hmac-md5;
- secret "yyyyyyyy";
- };
-
- view "internal" {
- match-clients { !external; 10.0.1/24; };
- server 10.0.1.1 {
- /* Deliver notify messages to external view. */
- keys { external; };
- };
- zone "example.com" {
- type master;
- file "internal/example.db";
- allow-update { key mykey; };
- notify-also { 10.0.1.1; };
- };
- };
-
- view "external" {
- match-clients { external; any; };
- zone "example.com" {
- type slave;
- file "external/example.db";
- masters { 10.0.1.1; };
- transfer-source { 10.0.1.1; };
- // allow-update-forwarding { any; };
- // allow-notify { ... };
- };
- };</programlisting>
- </informalexample>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question>
- <para>
- I get a error message like <quote>zone wireless.ietf56.ietf.org/IN:
- loading master file primaries/wireless.ietf56.ietf.org: no
- owner</quote>.
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- This error is produced when a line in the master file
- contains leading white space (tab/space) but the is no
- current record owner name to inherit the name from. Usually
- this is the result of putting white space before a comment.
- Forgeting the "@" for the SOA record or indenting the master
- file.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question>
- <para>
- Why are my logs in GMT (UTC).
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- You are running chrooted (-t) and have not supplied local timzone
- information in the chroot area.
- </para>
- <simplelist>
- <member>FreeBSD: /etc/localtime</member>
- <member>Solaris: /etc/TIMEZONE and /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo</member>
- <member>OSF: /etc/zoneinfo/localtime</member>
- </simplelist>
- <para>
- See also tzset(3) and zic(8).
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question>
- <para>
- I get the error message <quote>named: capset failed: Operation
- not permitted</quote> when starting named.
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- The capability module, part of "Linux Security Modules/LSM",
- has not been loaded into the kernel. See insmod(8).
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question>
- <para>
- I get <quote>rndc: connect failed: connection refused</quote> when
- I try to run rndc.
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- This is usually a configuration error.
- </para>
- <para>
- First ensure that named is running and no errors are being
- reported at startup (/var/log/messages or equivalent).
- Running "named -g &lt;usual arguments&gt;" from a title
- can help at this point.
- </para>
- <para>
- Secondly ensure that named is configured to use rndc either
- by "rndc-confgen -a", rndc-confgen or manually. The
- Administrators Reference manual has details on how to do
- this.
- </para>
- <para>
- Old versions of rndc-confgen used localhost rather than
- 127.0.0.1 in /etc/rndc.conf for the default server. Update
- /etc/rndc.conf if necessary so that the default server
- listed in /etc/rndc.conf matches the addresses used in
- named.conf. "localhost" has two address (127.0.0.1 and
- ::1).
- </para>
- <para>
- If you use "rndc-confgen -a" and named is running with -t or -u
- ensure that /etc/rndc.conf has the correct ownership and that
- a copy is in the chroot area. You can do this by re-running
- "rndc-confgen -a" with appropriate -t and -u arguments.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question>
- <para>
- I don't get RRSIG's returned when I use "dig +dnssec".
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- You need to ensure DNSSEC is enabled (dnssec-enable yes;).
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question>
- <para>
- I get <quote>Error 1067</quote> when starting named under Windows.
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- This is the service manager saying that named exited. You
- need to examine the Application log in the EventViewer to
- find out why.
- </para>
- <para>
- Common causes are that you failed to create "named.conf"
- (usually "C:\windows\dns\etc\named.conf") or failed to
- specify the directory in named.conf.
- </para>
- <informalexample>
- <programlisting>
-options {
- Directory "C:\windows\dns\etc";
-};</programlisting>
- </informalexample>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question>
- <para>
- I get <quote>transfer of 'example.net/IN' from 192.168.4.12#53:
- failed while receiving responses: permission denied</quote> error
- messages.
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- These indicate a filesystem permission error preventing
- named creating / renaming the temporary file. These will
- usually also have other associated error messages like
- </para>
- <informalexample>
- <programlisting>
-"dumping master file: sl/tmp-XXXX5il3sQ: open: permission denied"</programlisting>
- </informalexample>
- <para>
- Named needs write permission on the directory containing
- the file. Named writes the new cache file to a temporary
- file then renames it to the name specified in named.conf
- to ensure that the contents are always complete. This is
- to prevent named loading a partial zone in the event of
- power failure or similar interrupting the write of the
- master file.
- </para>
- <para>
- Note file names are relative to the directory specified in
- options and any chroot directory ([&lt;chroot
- dir&gt;/][&lt;options dir&gt;]).
- </para>
- <informalexample>
- <para>
- If named is invoked as "named -t /chroot/DNS" with
- the following named.conf then "/chroot/DNS/var/named/sl"
- needs to be writable by the user named is running as.
- </para>
- <programlisting>
-options {
- directory "/var/named";
-};
-
-zone "example.net" {
- type slave;
- file "sl/example.net";
- masters { 192.168.4.12; };
-};</programlisting>
- </informalexample>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question>
- <para>
- How do I intergrate BIND 9 and Solaris SMF
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Sun has a blog entry describing how to do this.
- </para>
- <para>
- <ulink
- url="http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/anay/Weblog?catname=%2FSolaris">
- http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/anay/Weblog?catname=%2FSolaris
- </ulink>
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question>
- <para>
- Can a NS record refer to a CNAME.
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- No. The rules for glue (copies of the *address* records
- in the parent zones) and additional section processing do
- not allow it to work.
- </para>
- <para>
- You would have to add both the CNAME and address records
- (A/AAAA) as glue to the parent zone and have CNAMEs be
- followed when doing additional section processing to make
- it work. No namesever implementation supports either of
- these requirements.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question>
- <para>
- What does <quote>RFC 1918 response from Internet for
- 0.0.0.10.IN-ADDR.ARPA</quote> mean?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- If the IN-ADDR.ARPA name covered refers to a internal address
- space you are using then you have failed to follow RFC 1918
- usage rules and are leaking queries to the Internet. You
- should establish your own zones for these addresses to prevent
- you quering the Internet's name servers for these addresses.
- Please see <ulink url="http://as112.net/">http://as112.net/</ulink>
- for details of the problems you are causing and the counter
- measures that have had to be deployed.
- </para>
- <para>
- If you are not using these private addresses then a client
- has queried for them. You can just ignore the messages,
- get the offending client to stop sending you these messages
- as they are most probably leaking them or setup your own zones
- empty zones to serve answers to these queries.
- </para>
- <informalexample>
- <programlisting>
-zone "10.IN-ADDR.ARPA" {
- type master;
- file "empty";
-};
-
-zone "16.172.IN-ADDR.ARPA" {
- type master;
- file "empty";
-};
-
-...
-
-zone "31.172.IN-ADDR.ARPA" {
- type master;
- file "empty";
-};
-
-zone "168.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA" {
- type master;
- file "empty";
-};
-
-empty:
-@ 10800 IN SOA &lt;name-of-server&gt;. &lt;contact-email&gt;. (
- 1 3600 1200 604800 10800 )
-@ 10800 IN NS &lt;name-of-server&gt;.</programlisting>
- </informalexample>
- <note>
- Future versions of named are likely to do this automatically.
- </note>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- </qandaset>
-</article>