bind 2.1a3 on centos 6.4

Brian Cuttler brian at wadsworth.org
Mon Jun 24 14:53:02 UTC 2013


Thank you, that explains a lot.

Had assumed that the one nslint # yum found would be at least
somewhat current.

Will see if I can't find a newer one to install.

						thank you,

						Brian

On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 03:50:22PM -0400, Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. wrote:
> Or don't use nslint?
> 
> Though nslint v2.1a3 was released on March 5th, 2002... that would make it pretty out of date to me.  Especially since it seems a3, means alpha 3.  The CHANGES file has v2.1 coming out on Feb 15, 2008.
> 
> The latest version I have is v3.1 (Sep 11, 2010) -- one of the changes in this version is "update default location of named.conf"....
> 
> "@(#) $Id: nslint.c 256 2010-03-06 04:14:09Z leres $ (LBL)"
> 
> 2009-10-14 puts the solaris version somewhere between v2.2 (2009-03-13) and v3.0 (2010-03-05)
> 
> Under "v2.1" release it has:
> 
>  * Handle "srv" records
>  * Fix some ttl parsing problems
>  * Add "ignore" option
>  * Hack in support for "view"
>  * check for duplicate "cname" records.
>  * upgrade to autoconf 2.61
> 
> they probably didn't hack in support for "view" until after a3??
> 
> When did "view" get introduced in bind?
> 
> My experience has a huge gap....I first did DNS in bind 4.x (on the other ISC, the first to have Motif available for their x86 Unix...acquired by Sun Microsystems after they were among the first to come out with SVR4 on x86...where the SVR4 was then pulled from market, so I continued to run their SVR3.2 system until finally our president caved on his anti-Sun position and I upgraded to Solaris/x86 2.5.1 (followed by me getting laid off...)  Then I worked for a much larger company where somebody else managed DNS, where they would return requests saying they don't think its possible to do what I'm asking in DNS.....Now I'm running DNS here...systems were mostly 9.4.x with a 9.6.x and later a stray that was running 9.3.x  After I was left alone with DNS, everything went to 9.6.x, even though the reason for not was problems in forcing it to compile with openssl-0.9.7 for the older Solaris boxes (which I solved by upgrading openssl....)
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > 
> > Len,
> > 
> > Following up on a hunch - I removed the "view" statement
> > and the second view from the named.conf.
> > 
> > I get a screen full of errors when I ran nslint.
> > 
> > Was headed for the release notes... but my machine was out of
> > service for several hours.
> > 
> > Hope that I do not have to maintain a separate non-view version
> > of named.conf just for nslint.
> > 
> > My Solaris nslint doesn't want to give new a version number,
> > but # strings reveals the following.
> > 
> > # strings /usr/local/bin/nslint
> > @(#) Copyright (c) 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999,
> > 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
> > The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
> > @(#) $Id: nslint.c 247 2009-10-14 17:54:05Z leres $ (LBL)
> > 
> > 
> > I'll see if I can't find the release notes.
> > At this point I don't know if handling views was a Solaris
> > enhancement
> > or something that has broken in newer nslint versions. Or what the
> > work-around is.
> > 
> > Do you?
> > 
> > 						thank you,
> > 
> > 						Brian
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 11:24:54AM -0700, Leonard Mills wrote:
> > > Hi Brian,
> > > 
> > > I don't understand why you would expect to see errors, when nslint
> > > says:
> > > 
> > > nslint: 0/131072 items used, 0 errors
> > > 
> > > Zero items used/checked strongly implies zero errors can be
> > > detected.
> > > 
> > > hth,
> > > Len
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > >________________________________
> > > > From: Brian Cuttler <brian at wadsworth.org>
> > > >To: bind-users at lists.isc.org
> > > >Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 10:35 AM
> > > >Subject: bind 2.1a3 on centos 6.4
> > > > 
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >Please let me know if there is a more appropriate list.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >Here is a question you probably don't hear every day.
> > > >
> > > >Background:
> > > >We are moving our DNS from a Solaris platform to Centos
> > > >
> > > >Action:
> > > >I installed
> > > >BIND 9.8.2rc1-RedHat-9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.4
> > > >nslint-2.1a3-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
> > > >rcs
> > > >sudo
> > > >etc
> > > >
> > > >on Centos and copied by zone files and config file.
> > > >
> > > >named seems to be working fine.
> > > >
> > > >I always run nslint when I make table changes, I ran nslint
> > > >on the tables on this machine and it reported no errors.
> > > >
> > > >Note that I have a "source" directory where I make changes,
> > > >and then I move the files to a working directory to for the
> > > >daemon to read.
> > > >
> > > ># /usr/bin/nslint -ddd -c /etc/dns-source/named.conf-test
> > > >nslint: doconf: opened /etc/dns-source/named.conf-test
> > > >nslint: doconf: opened nslint.conf
> > > >nslint: 0/131072 items used, 0 errors
> > > >
> > > >Problem - I know there are errors. This is a sample of the errors
> > > >I see on my current production machine. Some are resolvable, some
> > > >are intractable (I don't know if nslint can handle parked
> > > >domains).
> > > >
> > > >nslint: Missing "ptr": www.stemcell.ny.gov. -> 199.184.16.24
> > > >nslint: Missing "a": sankoff.wadsworth.org. -> 199.184.28.112
> > > >nslint: Missing "ptr": stemcellsny.com. -> 199.184.16.24
> > > >nslint: 199.184.16.24 in use by stemcellny.com. and nystem.com.
> > > >nslint: Name referenced without other records: ns1.albany.edu.
> > > >nslint: Missing "ptr": www.nyradon.org. -> 199.184.16.22
> > > >
> > > >But the point being, that I would expect some errors to be
> > > >produced
> > > >on the new machine I'm setting up.
> > > >
> > > >I don't know what is happening that I'm getting no errors, but it
> > > >as some of the errors are correctable, I would expect them to
> > > >still
> > > >exist (vs errors that perhaps a newer nslint might better
> > > >understand
> > > >and have eliminated from the report).
> > > >
> > > >I know nslint but work, so it has got to be something I'm doing,
> > > >but
> > > >I just don't see it.
> > > >
> > > >Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> > > >
> > > >                        thank you,
> > > >
> > > >                        Brian
> > > >
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