Bind package for pfsense 2.1

marcelloc

The in-addr.arpa is automatic with reverse zone checkbox.

johnpoz

but it doesn't change the name? So the box where you put the name is a bit unclear.

What about the lack of creation of the namedb dir and named.conf file?

marcelloc

but it doesn't change the name? So the box where you put the name is a bit unclear.

What about the lack of creation of the namedb dir and named.conf file?

I'll try to create a nanobsd image on virtual box to test it. On full install it's working fine.

johnpoz

I am on a full install not a nano anything - I installed the package, and it created the menu items and such.. I created zones, but it never creates this namedb folder as you can see. So no its not working fine via a full version of pfsense.

jeffbrl

marcelloc,

Thanks for your work in creating the bind package. I'm looking forward to using it for name service over IPv6 transport. The GUI for tinydns won't instruct the software to bind to an IPv6 address. I'm hoping your GUI for bind has better IPv6 support.

I'm also seeing the same behavior as johnpoz, so I can't test bind with IPv6 yet.

stalks

Hi there, just started using this package :)

A few things to mention:

When creating a "Reverse Zone" the "in-addr.arpa" is added but the IP octets are not reversed
ie. Adding "192.168.1", creates zone: "192.168.1.in-addr.arpa", which should be "1.168.192.in-addr-arpa"
When creating a "slave" zone, the GUI still requires a record to be created at the bottom of the page.
When creating a slave, entering the "IP Master Zone" doesn't add a semi-colon ( ; ) to the config for the list of masters, ie. "masters { 192.168.1.1 };" which should be "masters { 192.168.1.1; };"

Feature Request: Ability to view the current records on a slave zone (or point me to where the records should be on the filesystem as I can't seem to find them)

johnpoz

stalks – what flavor of pfsense are you running? And your etc/namedb/named.conf got created?

Where were your zone files created? I could not find the named.conf file that it was saying it was loading to look to see what it was even calling the forwards or reverse zones.

dividehex

@marcelloc:

@marcelloc:

Ok. I'll update it to include missing conf mount rw and ro.

Code updated with no version change. Just reinstall the package in 15 minutes.

Marcelloc,
Thanks. I reinstalled the package and this fixed the issues I was having. I'll keep poking at it for other bugs.

marcelloc

@stalks:

When creating a "Reverse Zone" the "in-addr.arpa" is added but the IP octets are not reversed
ie. Adding "192.168.1", creates zone: "192.168.1.in-addr.arpa", which should be "1.168.192.in-addr-arpa"

@stalks:

When creating a "slave" zone, the GUI still requires a record to be created at the bottom of the page.

@stalks:

When creating a slave, entering the "IP Master Zone" doesn't add a semi-colon ( ; ) to the config for the list of masters, ie. "masters { 192.168.1.1 };" which should be "masters { 192.168.1.1; };"

johnpoz

Ok I have reinstalled the package, both pkg button and xml button. I go in disable dns forwarder, enable bind in its menu item that is created.

Go in and double check that zones are there, hit save, restart service, etc.

And there is still no etc/namedb folder

[2.1-RELEASE][root@pfsense.local.lan]/root(1): cd /etc/
[2.1-RELEASE][root@pfsense.local.lan]/etc(2): cd namedb
namedb: No such file or directory.
[2.1-RELEASE][root@pfsense.local.lan]/etc(3):

but the log says that is where its loading its conf file from

Oct 16 13:38:26 named[97452]: loading configuration from '/etc/namedb/named.conf'

But I also get this error
Oct 16 13:38:26 named[97452]: the working directory is not writable

I can query bind..

; <<>> DiG 9.9.2-P1 <<>> chaos txt version.bind @192.168.1.253
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 29640
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;version.bind. CH TXT

;; ANSWER SECTION:
version.bind. 0 CH TXT "9.9.4"

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
version.bind. 0 CH NS version.bind.

;; Query time: 3 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.1.253#53(192.168.1.253)
;; WHEN: Wed Oct 16 13:43:05 2013
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 73

And it looks up stuff from net - but it does not serve up zones I created

budman@ubuntu:~$ dig @192.168.1.253 www.pfsense.org +short
192.207.126.26
budman@ubuntu:~$

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;local.lan. IN SOA

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
. 0 IN SOA a.root-servers.net. nstld.verisign-grs.com. 2013101601 1800 900 604800 86400

;; Query time: 43 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.1.253#53(192.168.1.253)
;; WHEN: Wed Oct 16 13:44:32 2013
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 113

Something is not right with this package.. Running on

2.1-RELEASE (i386)
built on Wed Sep 11 18:16:50 EDT 2013
FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p11

stalks

@johnpoz:

stalks – what flavor of pfsense are you running? And your etc/namedb/named.conf got created?

Where were your zone files created? I could not find the named.conf file that it was saying it was loading to look to see what it was even calling the forwards or reverse zones.

HDD install i386

named.conf was created, can see zone "domain.com" { .. etc .. but the actual zone files, don't know where they are going

@johnpoz

$: find / -name 'named.conf'
/usr/local/etc/named.conf
/usr/pbi/bind-i386/etc/named.conf
/cf/conf/named/etc/namedb/named.conf

johnpoz

ok yup I can view that

cat /cf/conf/named/etc/namedb/named.conf
#Bind pfsense configuration
#Do not edit this file!!!

options {
directory "/etc/namedb";
pid-file "/var/run/named/pid";

but notice it points to /etc/namedb – which isn't there!

Those other locations get shown in the find - but they are not really there. Why does the log say its loading /etc/namedb/named.conf ??

stalks

named runs in a jail so it has its own folder structure seperate from /

johnpoz

ok - where is it suppose to be loading the zone files from, because they are not loading.. And lots of errors get put into the system log.

shouldn't they be in
/cf/conf/named/etc/namedb

I only show named.conf and named.root in there

stalks

Thats what I can't find as well :)

johnpoz

but your saying your zones resolve? I have a forward zone and none of the entries resolve. Even though bind comes up and I an resolve outside stuff, my local zone is not working.

I don't think they are getting created - and clearly there is something not quite right when the log says it is loading /etc/named/named.conf – but its really in /cf/conf/named/etc/namedb/named.conf and in that .conf it says working directory is /etc/namedb -- when it should point to /cf/conf/named/etc/namedb/

Not a real jail expert, but this does not seem right to me.

Would love to start playing with it and looking for more bugs, etc. But if I can not even get it to resolve my pfsense.local.lan -- how can I use it?

marcelloc

version 0.1.4 is out.

zone tab now shows result config.
fixed slave zone fields checks
fixed master zone ip missing ";"
changed folder check/creation from /conf symlink to /cf dir.

I've testes several times folder creation and it's fine under /cf/named

stalks

@marcelloc:

version 0.1.4 is out.

zone tab now shows result config.
fixed slave zone fields checks
fixed master zone ip missing ";"
changed folder check/creation from /conf symlink to /cf dir.

I've testes several times folder creation and it's fine under /cf/named

The zone files are not being created because the permissions of the directories are not allowing the user "bind" to write.

I created a view called "default", and the permissions of /cf/named/etc/namedb/slave/default are "drwxr-xr-x root wheel"

I then ran the following command: chgrp bind /cf/named/etc/namedb/slave/default; chmod g+w /cf/named/etc/namedb/slave/default;

The new permissions are then "drwxrwxr-x root bind"

Then restarted bind using the web interface, and the files are all created, and the resulting config can be seen in the web interface.

stalks

Feature request: forward zones

Woudl be similar to slave zones, but even more simple.

Example of forward zone config:

zone "example.com" { type forward; forward only; forwarders { 192.168.1.1; 192.168.1.2; }; };

marcelloc

Check version 0.1.5

main changes

Add forward zone option
Add rndc config to named.conf
Add widget to dashboard
Include dev/random,null and zero on named chroot dir
Check slave zone dir permissions