Recently, there has been a few incident on vulnerabilities of DNS server being exploited. Fortunately, Bind have release patches soon enough for the rest of us to start covering up the loop holes.
After an upgrade or installations of ISC Bind DNS server 9.6 on a FreeBSD box, we will need to stop and start “named” [...]
ISC BIND DNS SRV resource record type is rarely needed on a open source world, at least not as frequent as A, NS, MX, CNAME PTR and TXT resource record. After creating it in BIND DNS as the sample format below :
Problem :
Error found in log file,
general: error: dumping master file: master/tmp-cFRWfFf7ah: open: permission denied
while doing a “rndc“, “/etc/rc.d/named restart” or “/etc/init.d/named restart“.
Solution :