From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 14 2:58:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-32.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7075937B422 for ; Mon, 14 May 2001 02:58:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6D65266DD2; Mon, 14 May 2001 02:58:12 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 02:58:12 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: John Baxter , "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" , Kris Kennaway , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: onitoring named Message-ID: <20010514025811.A32800@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <3AFF6511.E1A8B996@mmcable.com> <009201c0dc4a$e4ace2c0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <009201c0dc4a$e4ace2c0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>; from tedm@toybox.placo.com on Mon, May 14, 2001 at 12:52:58AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 12:52:58AM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > Today, the most commmon response I see to nameserver problems is > "oh, your nameserver MUST have been hacked". This is an exciting, sexy > answer that just about anyone can give. Which -- so very inconveniently for your thesis -- happens to be true. > It requires no real understanding of DNS by either the giver or the > receiver. I guess I'm just getting sick and tired of hearing it > because my own experience is that most likely the problem is that > the DNS server has, in fact, NOT been cracked, and that the problem > is something more subtle. And when the originator complains "my named is dying" and gives no extra details, we're all supposed to put on our magic Telepathy Beanies and divine up the problem? Yeah, that's definitely the step I'm missing here. Thanks, suggestion noted! Kris --WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.5 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6/6wzWry0BWjoQKURApJvAKCaIkh6Ap+bS/wrVLM022FwyWcOpgCfZGwO CyMODdgu2WySncZIB0MiJ04= =fzBj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message