Tinydns is a small, authoritative DNS server written by Daniel J. Bernstein
Questions tagged [tinydns]
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Is there a record checker for tinydns
I've got a large number of zone-files in tinydns format, and I'm wondering if there is any lint-like tool to test such a zone-file for correctness?
I could write one in perl, testing the format of each line "+", "@", "6", etc. But it seems like…
user9565
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Setting up mx record in bind9
I have ubuntu machine with bind9 and tinydns installed on, as well as dnscache. And I'm now trying to add a MX record to bind9 zone file. Yet nothing seemse to have any effect.
This is the data file for…
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Icy Creature
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Can a DNS wildcard only be the leftmost part of a record?
I'm using TinyDNS, and have successfully used wildcard records of the form:
+*.:
(+ for A records.)
Can I also use:
+development.*.:
?
My intention is for all subdomains to have their development website point to our dev…
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Iain Hallam
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What would be causing a "recursion requested but not available" error using dbndns?
The tinydns and dnscache services are running and I have 127.0.0.1 in my resolv.conf:
root@ubuntu:~# cat /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 127.0.0.1
domain localdomain
search localdomain
root@ubuntu:~# sv status /etc/service/*
run:…
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Does djbdns / tinydns support long TXT records
Does djbdns/tinydns support large TXT records, for example when serving long DKIM keys?
I'm aware of RFC 4408 section 3.1.3 and RFC 1035 section…
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Kev
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dbjdns and nsupdate inter-compatibility?
Anyone aware if tinydns (dbjdns) and nsupdate work together and how to set this up?
I can't find any documentation on the subject and would really love to use tinydns over bind.
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Correct settings for pfSense and TinyDNS
My TinyDNS install on pfSense is only able to resolve local host names. Any external domains, come back as blank. The strange thing, is that they resolve correctly when SSH'd to the pfSense box. I also want to get the TinyDNS exposed on both LAN and…
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What IPv6 formats can the fefe.de patches to DJBDNS accept?
I'm using a web server that uploads its DNS entries to a TinyDNS server for name resolution. I'd like to be able to put in some AAAA records, but I've no idea what format TinyDNS is expecting them in - the field delimiter is : so I have a feeling…
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Iain Hallam
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TinyDNS and proper settings for SPF records
I've inherited a TinyDNS configuration that have following entries for SPF:
@domain.com:x.x.x.3:a::86400
@domain.com:x.x.x.103:c:10:86400
=domain.com:x.x.x.3:86400
=mail.domain.com:x.x.x.3:86400
=mail.domain.com:x.x.x.103:86400
'domain.com:v=spf1…
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Teddy
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Tinydns as secondary name server :: Working, but hacked :: What is the "proper" way
Spent a wonderful 6 hours setting up djbdns (tinydns + dnscache) as a secondary name server. I managed to hack together a working solution, but am confused as to why it did not work out of the box.
Both primary & secondary name servers live behind…
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How do I use an include statement in a TXT record?
We have a client that is using an email service that requires a TXT domain key reocrd that is over 127 characters long. I'm pretty sure BIND allows this, however we run djbdns with tinydns and it looks as though it only supports txt records up to…
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Stability of tinydns?
I am using tinydns behind dnscache to resolve machine names on a LAN, as installed on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. Every so often without explanation, local names can no longer be resolved by any machine on the network. It seems that tinydns is no longer…
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Help setting up a secondary authoritative DNS server
We have three Authoritative DNS servers and three recursive/caching DNS servers on my campus.
Authoritative servers
DNS1- Windows 2003
DNS2- Old Red Hat -----> Replacing w/ newer version
DNS3- Windows 2008 (I installed)
Caching and Recursive…
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IOTAMAN
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only SOA on own DNS server; other RR on third DNS servers
At Registro.br, I bought a domain and pointed to my primary DNS server.
I use tinydns.
I created a SOA and two NS entries. That's working perfectly.
My question:
Is it possible on my DNS server rewrite the SOA and NS entries and point to Amazon's…
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Nenhum Mail
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Are periods in a service name considered “special characters” for tinydns and daemontools?
I'm building some new DNS servers which will run tinydns. I need to run two instances of tinydns on each server, each serving what is our production authoritative DNS and a legacy authoritative DNS which is being phased out,…
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