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Fixing bind named messages like `lame-servers: network unreachable resolving ‘c.gtld-servers.net/AAAA/IN’: 2001:500:127::30#53`

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/11/15

When you see messages like below in your bind named.d logs then you’ve a Jekyll and Hyde network config: part of it says it supports IPv6, but in reality doesn’t as “2001:500:127::30” is the IPv6 of the generic TLD servers.

In my case a brain-dead TP-Link switch.

04-Dec-2016 13:05:48.008 lame-servers: network unreachable resolving 'c.gtld-servers.net/AAAA/IN': 2001:500:127::30#53
04-Dec-2016 13:05:48.008 lame-servers: network unreachable resolving 'd.gtld-servers.net/AAAA/IN': 2001:500:127::30#53
04-Dec-2016 13:05:48.008 lame-servers: network unreachable resolving 'e.gtld-servers.net/AAAA/IN': 2001:500:127::30#53
04-Dec-2016 13:05:48.008 lame-servers: network unreachable resolving 'f.gtld-servers.net/AAAA/IN': 2001:500:127::30#53
04-Dec-2016 13:05:48.008 lame-servers: network unreachable resolving 'g.gtld-servers.net/AAAA/IN': 2001:500:127::30#53
04-Dec-2016 13:05:48.009 lame-servers: network unreachable resolving 'h.gtld-servers.net/AAAA/IN': 2001:500:127::30#53
04-Dec-2016 13:05:48.009 lame-servers: network unreachable resolving 'i.gtld-servers.net/AAAA/IN': 2001:500:127::30#53
04-Dec-2016 13:05:48.009 lame-servers: network unreachable resolving 'j.gtld-servers.net/AAAA/IN': 2001:500:127::30#53
04-Dec-2016 13:05:48.009 lame-servers: network unreachable resolving 'k.gtld-servers.net/AAAA/IN': 2001:500:127::30#53
04-Dec-2016 13:05:48.009 lame-servers: network unreachable resolving 'l.gtld-servers.net/AAAA/IN': 2001:500:127::30#53
04-Dec-2016 13:05:48.009 lame-servers: network unreachable resolving 'm.gtld-servers.net/AAAA/IN': 2001:500:127::30#53
...
04-Dec-2016 13:24:13.500 lame-servers: network unreachable resolving './NS/IN': 2001:500:2f::f#53

A temporary solution is to run bind named.d in -4 mode (see examples for RHEL, CENTOS and OpenSuSE in the links below), but the actual solution is to get IPv6 working properly.

–jeroen

Posted in *nix, bind-named, Linux, Power User | Leave a Comment »

OpenSuSE: the relation between /etc/var/named.d and /var/lib/named

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/10/24

For first time BIND named users on OpenSuSE there is often confusion on the relation between these directories:

  • /etc/named.d/
  • /var/lib/named/

For example here someone else struggled: [WayBack] Re: Fwd: Re: [opensuse] Split DNS? Solved

This is how I inferred the workings:

The /etc/named.conf.include is re-generated at named start by running /usr/share/bind/createNamedConfInclude by including files that both match NAMED_CONF_INCLUDE_FILES in /etc/sysconfig/named and exist in the /etc/named.d/ directory.

At named startup, it also copies everything from /etc/named.d to /var/lib/named/etc/named.d

For details see

–jeroen

Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, bind-named, Linux, openSuSE, Power User, SuSE Linux | Leave a Comment »

zabbix on Windows: check the configuration before restarting the Zabbix Agent service

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/09/27

If the Zabbix configuration on Windows (especially mismatches in C:\zabbix\zabbix.agentd.conf.d), then the Zabbix Agent will not start at all:

C:\zabbix\bin\win64>zabbix_agentd.exe --start
zabbix_agentd.exe [4711]: ERROR: cannot start service [Zabbix Agent]: [0x0000041D] The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.

This is how to check it before starting the service:

C:\zabbix\bin\win64\zabbix_agentd.exe --config C:\zabbix_agentd.conf
zabbix_agentd.exe [43]: ERROR: cannot add user parameter "MyDuplicate[*],PowerShell.exe -File C:\zabbix\UniquePowerShellScript.ps1 "$1"": key "MyDuplicate" already exists

The problem is that in the C:\zabbix\zabbix.agent.conf.d directory, two files had a similar config:

UserParameter=MyDuplicate[*],PowerShell.exe -File C:\zabbix\FirstPowerShellScript.ps1 "$1"
UserParameter=MyDuplicate[*],PowerShell.exe -File C:\zabbix\SecondPowerShellScript.ps1 "$1"

The problem is that the first part of UserParameter (before the [*])  is a key which needs to be unique over all configuration files.

If everything is fine, you will see this:

C:\zabbix\bin\win64\zabbix_agentd.exe --config C:\zabbix_agentd.conf
zabbix_agentd.exe [1581]: use foreground option to run Zabbix agent as console application

If you need to manually start Zabbix as a service, then perform this (the first step is not needed if the service has already been stopped):

C:\zabbix\bin\win64>zabbix_agentd.exe --stop
zabbix_agentd.exe [1642]: service [Zabbix Agent] stopped successfully

C:\zabbix\bin\win64>zabbix_agentd.exe --start
zabbix_agentd.exe [1642]: service [Zabbix Agent] started successfully

–jeroen

Posted in *nix, Linux, Monitoring, Power User, Windows, Zabbix | Leave a Comment »

Eigenes DynDNS mit Bind und Apache – CupRacer.de

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/09/16

Dieser Artikel beschreibt, wie man einen eigenen Mechanismus für DNS-Updates als DynDNS-Alternative aufbaut.

Translated:

This article describes how you can create your own mechanism for DNS-updates as alternative for DynDNS.

Interesting read: [WayBack] Eigenes DynDNS mit Bind und Apache – CupRacer.de

Edit

The above post disappeared, but this one (which adds calling the DynDNS server from a Fritz!Box) is still up: [WayBack] Eigener DynDNS mit Bind, Apache und PHP | onderka.com with an update at [WayBack] Eigener DynDNS mit dnsmasq, Apache und PHP | onderka.com.

Source code for both:

Related and background reading:

–jeroen

Posted in *nix, bind-named, Linux, openSuSE, Power User, SuSE Linux, Tumbleweed | Leave a Comment »

Signal messaging downloads

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/08/23

I forgot about the announcement that Signal had also become available on the Desktop, but it is via [WayBack] https://signal.org/download/:

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Debian based x64 Linux:

$ curl -s https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt/keys.asc | sudo apt-key add -
$ echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt xenial main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/signal-xenial.list
$ sudo apt update && sudo apt install signal-desktop

I like the mix of echo and tee to update the [WayBack] /etc/apt/sources.list.d folder with the signal-xenial.list file.

These links will always give you the latest download filename:

The files you get there will be relative to the path https://updates.signal.org/desktop/ so will be similar to:

You can get the sources at https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Desktop/releases

Via:

–jeroen

Posted in *nix, Android Devices, Apple, Debian, iMac, iOS, iPhone, Linux, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, MacMini, macOS 10.12 Sierra, Power User, Windows | Leave a Comment »

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