On 18 May 2023 at 11:40, Abdoul khader Gakou wrote:
>
> Hello Thanks for All
>
> Great
>
> Are BIND and Fred installed on the same server in your case or on
> separate servers?
Deploying on multiple physical servers is not the only distributed solution, deploying on virtual
servers or separating tasks on the process level is also possible, please see:
https://fred.nic.cz/documentation/html/Architecture/Deployment.html
> If it's on different servers how BIND manages to read the file
> generated by FRED.
See: https://fred.nic.cz/documentation/html/Architecture/Deployment.html
> As you had experience on registry management, how is your liaison with
> registrars so that they act in files
In our case registrar MUST connect using EPP - it works very well even though we have to
train new registrars in some cases while starting them up with fred-client
Regards,
Dr Paulos B Nyirenda
NIC.MW & .mw ccTLD: http://www.nic.mw
SDNP: http://www.sdnp.org.mw
Tel: +265-(0)-882 089 166
Cell: +265-(0)-888-824787
WhatsApp: +265-(0)-887386433
>
> Regards
> ABDOUL KHADER GAKOU
> Certified Network Security Specialist
> Email : gakou05(a)gmail.com
> Tél : +224 622298656
>
>
>
>
> Le jeu. 18 mai 2023 à 08:44, Dr Paulos Nyirenda <paulos(a)sdnp.org.mw
> > a écrit :
>
> At the .mw registry we are running FRED registry with BIND for DNS
> services.
>
> We are not running KNOT DNS.
>
> So, I am re-directing your request to fred-users(a)lists.nic.cz
> with the hope that someone on that list may respond to you.
>
> However, I expect this to be straight forward if the FRED registry
> is generating DNS zone files for the DNS server to read and
> propagate, please see genzone config in FRED
>
> Regards,
>
> Dr Paulos B Nyirenda
> NIC.MW & .mw ccTLD: http://www.nic.mw
> SDNP: http://www.sdnp.org.mw
>
>
> On 16 May 2023 at 16:47, Abdoul khader Gakou wrote:
>
> From: Abdoul khader Gakou
> <gakou05(a)gmail.com>
> To: domains(a)registrar.mw
> Subject: Need a help for a Fred Registry
> Project
> Date sent: Tue, 16 May 2023 16:47:40 +0000
> Copies to: Admin Root
> <savane20014(a)gmail.com>
>
> > Hello;
> > We are in the process of deploying KNOT DNS associated with FRED
> > Registration for the management of a registry. So we have
> already > installed KNOT DNS under Debian 11 and also installed
> FRED > Registration under Ubuntu 20.04. We want to make the
> connection > between KNOT DNS and FRED, and understand the
> operation of FRED. > > > Please can you help us. > > > ABDOUL
> KHADER GAKOU > Certified Network Security Specialist > Email :
> gakou05(a)gmail.com > Tél : +224 622298656
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At the .mw registry we are running FRED registry with BIND for DNS services.
We are not running KNOT DNS.
So, I am re-directing your request to fred-users(a)lists.nic.cz with the hope that someone on
that list may respond to you.
However, I expect this to be straight forward if the FRED registry is generating DNS zone
files for the DNS server to read and propagate, please see genzone config in FRED
Regards,
Dr Paulos B Nyirenda
NIC.MW & .mw ccTLD: http://www.nic.mw
SDNP: http://www.sdnp.org.mw
On 16 May 2023 at 16:47, Abdoul khader Gakou wrote:
From: Abdoul khader Gakou <gakou05(a)gmail.com>
To: domains(a)registrar.mw
Subject: Need a help for a Fred Registry Project
Date sent: Tue, 16 May 2023 16:47:40 +0000
Copies to: Admin Root <savane20014(a)gmail.com>
> Hello;
> We are in the process of deploying KNOT DNS associated with FRED
> Registration for the management of a registry. So we have already
> installed KNOT DNS under Debian 11 and also installed FRED
> Registration under Ubuntu 20.04. We want to make the connection
> between KNOT DNS and FRED, and understand the operation of FRED.
>
>
> Please can you help us.
>
>
> ABDOUL KHADER GAKOU
> Certified Network Security Specialist
> Email : gakou05(a)gmail.com
> Tél : +224 622298656
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What are these New Communication Schemas on FRED as queried by one of our registrars
as shown here below?
Please elaborate if those of us running FRED registry need do anything about this.
Regards,
Paulos
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Dr Paulos B Nyirenda
NIC.MW & .mw ccTLD: http://www.nic.mw
SDNP: http://www.sdnp.org.mw
Tel: +265-(0)-882 089 166
Cell: +265-(0)-888-824787
WhatsApp: +265-(0)-887386433
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From: "Sharp, Vanessa" <Vanessa.Sharp(a)cscglobal.com>
To: "domains(a)registrar.mw" <domains(a)registrar.mw>
Subject: New communication schemas
Date sent: Mon, 1 May 2023 22:14:51 +0000
Dear NIC MW,
We were notified by CZ NIC that they are introducing a new version of schemas from 19th
May 2023. As MW shares a common platform with CZ please can you advise if there will be
any changes to the MW schemas?
Thanks and kind regards,
Vanessa Sharp
Vendor Relationship Manager | Digital Brand Services
Phone: 44 (0)207 015 9337
vanessa.sharp(a)cscglobal.com
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Hello Team,
I have a scenario where by the NS set and domain name associated to it
are both deleted but I still technical checks results are sent to
contact of the NS SET.
My expectation is if the NSSET is already deleted then there will be
notification of Results of technical check on the NS set to be sent to
the contact of that particular NSSET.
Kindly I ask for your guidance on this scenario.
NS set: *<447855962183D9BD27E7JDLGL>*
Date of the check: 01:50:20 28-03-2023 EAT
Check type: periodic
Ticket: 469297
=== Errors ==================================================
Nameserver does not contain a record for any of the domains:
* <X>.co.tz*
Nameserver does not contain a record for any of the domains:
*<X>.co.tz*
=== Warnings =============================================
=== Notices ============================================
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Regards,
Patrick
Dear Team,
We have number of domain names blacklisted.
Challenge is Blacklisted domain names appear to be available for
registration when queried on whois.
Our requirement is we want to make blacklisted domain names not
available for registration even when prospective registrants query them
on whois.
Please guide us if there is a way/solution to achieve this.
Thank you,
Patrick
Hello Team,
Please assist to get sql query which provides statistics of fully
details of domain names renewed in a specific period.
Example we want to get analysis or list of domain names renewed in month
of January,which date was renewal command was executed,number of year
domain names renewed,new expire date.
I know these details can be obtained from daphine GUI but we are looking
for easy way to get these details.
Thank you,
Patrick
Hi,
I managed to install the FRED Registry management system on Ubuntu 20.04.
However, I am having trouble running the fred-admin command. For
instance when I read the below command:
root@fred-ubuntu:/etc/fred# fred-admin --registrar_add --handle=sys_reg
--reg_name="System registrar" --country=MW --no_vat --system
I get this error:
Error: the option '--messenger.archive_rendered' is required but missing
and when I try to use the option '--messenger.archive_rendered', like
here below:
root@fred-ubuntu:/etc/fred# fred-admin --registrar_add --handle=sys_reg
--reg_name="System registrar" --country=MW --no_vat --system
--messenger.archive_rendered
I get this error:
Error: found unknown configuration with option_group_index 22 :
--messenger.archive_rendered
Any suggestion as to how I could proceed?
Your assistance is greatly appreciated.
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Denzell Yonah
Internet Technician
Malawi SDNP
Tel: 882 089 166 <tel:882 089 166> | Cell: 888 844 657 <tel:888 824 787>
domains(a)registrar.mw <mailto:domains@registrar.mw>
http://www.nic.mw | http://www.registrar.mw <http://www.nic.mw |
http://www.registrar.mw>
P.O. Box 31762, Malawi SDNP, Chichiri, Blantyre
Dear Team,
I have performed restoration test and I have got below error;
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/genzone_client", line 11, in <module>
load_entry_point('fred-pyfred==2.15.1', 'console_scripts', 'genzone_client')()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pyfred/commands/genzone_client.py", line 215, in run_genzone_client
ns=nameservice, context=corba_context).getZoneNameList()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pyfred/zone.py", line 191, in getObject
raise ZoneException("CORBA failure, original exception is: %s" % e)
pyfred.zone.ZoneException: CORBA failure, original exception is: CosNaming.NamingContext.NotFound(why=missing_node, rest_of_name=[CosNaming.NameComponent(id='ZoneGenerator', kind='Object')])
I request your guidance on sorting this issue. Thank you, Patrick
Hi
We manage the .co.zw 2LD registry for Zimbabwe and are interested in migrating
to use the FRED registry management system.
We first installed Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) from scratch, with basic
utilities + sshd server package only, and then followed the instructions for
installation of FRED binaries at:
https://fred.nic.cz/documentation/html/AdminManual/Installation/BinsUbuntu.…
The first problem we found was with this command:
# sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keys.gnupg.net:80 --recv-keys
0x1C0200016A9AC5C6
The above keyserver has closed down so the site could not be found. We then
used keyserver.ubuntu.com instead, ie:
# sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys
0x1C0200016A9AC5C6
That was successful, with response:
gpg: key 6A9AC5C6: public key "CZ.NIC Release Automatic Signing Key
<archive-sign-key(a)nic.cz>" imported
We then continued with the instructions until the following command:
# sudo apt-get update
The response was:
GPG error: http://archive.nic.cz/ubuntu xenial Release: The following
signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available:
NO_PUBKEY E6DD3CAC7844804C
W: The repository 'http://archive.nic.cz/ubuntu xenial Release' is not signed.
We therefore requested the missing key (not in original notes):
# apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys E6DD3CAC7844804C
That was successful, with response:
gpg: requesting key 7844804C from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: key C11F5931: public key "CZ.NIC Release Automatic Signing Key
<archive-sign-key(a)nic.cz>" imported
We continued with the instructions until we came to installing the FRED package
itself:
# sudo apt-get --assume-yes install fred
The response was:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
fred : Depends: fred-pyfred but it is not going to be installed
Depends: fred-rsifd but it is not going to be installed
Depends: nagios-pyfred-genzone-plugin but it is not going to be
installed
Depends: pyfred-filemanager but it is not going to be installed
Depends: pyfred-genzone but it is not going to be installed
Depends: python-pyfred but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
We then tried with aptitude instead, ie:
# sudo aptitude install fred
The failed response was:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
python-pyfred : Depends: python-pygresql (>= 1:5.0) but it is not going to be
installed.
bind9-host : Depends: libbind9-140 (= 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.16) but
1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.19 is to be installed.
Depends: libdns162 (= 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.16) but
1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.19 is to be installed.
Depends: libisc160 (= 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.16) but
1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.19 is to be installed.
Depends: libisccfg140 (= 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.16) but
1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.19 is to be installed.
Depends: liblwres141 (= 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.16) but
1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.19 is to be installed.
dnsutils : Depends: libbind9-140 (= 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.16) but
1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.19 is to be installed.
Depends: libdns162 (= 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.16) but
1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.19 is to be installed.
Depends: libisc160 (= 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.16) but
1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.19 is to be installed.
Depends: libisccfg140 (= 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.16) but
1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.19 is to be installed.
Depends: liblwres141 (= 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.16) but
1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.19 is to be installed.
fred-pyfred : Depends: python-pygresql (>= 1:5.0) but it is not going to be
installed.
However aptitude could not fix the problem.
We removed the bind9-host and dnsutils packages, then ran "sudo apt-get update"
and "sudo apt-get upgrade", then reinstalled them and tried the aptitude
install again. This time it just reported:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
python-pyfred : Depends: python-pygresql (>= 1:5.0) but it is not going to be
installed.
fred-pyfred : Depends: python-pygresql (>= 1:5.0) but it is not going to be
installed.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
Keep the following packages at their current version:
1) fred [Not Installed]
2) fred-pyfred [Not Installed]
3) fred-rsifd [Not Installed]
4) nagios-pyfred-genzone-plugin [Not Installed]
5) pyfred-filemanager [Not Installed]
6) pyfred-genzone [Not Installed]
7) python-pyfred [Not Installed]
Leave the following dependencies unresolved:
8) pyfred-filemanager recommends fred-pyfred
9) pyfred-genzone recommends fred-pyfred
Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
Do you have any suggestions as to how to proceed from here?
Regards
Jim Holland
System Administrator
Mango, operating on behalf of ZISPA
Managers of Zimbabwe's .co.zw domain name registry
Web: www.zispa.org.zw
On 23 Jan 2023 at 21:35, ZISPA DNS Admin wrote:
> Hi Paulos
>
> I don't know if you will remember me from the early days of the
> Internet. I took over from Rob Borland in managing the Mango email
> service here in Zimbabwe. Then in 2004 I became the system
> administrator of ZISPA which is responsible for the .co.zw domain name
> registry. I have managed it ever since.
Thanks for the introduction. I do remember Rob very well in the fidonet days and I have
heard of you but I cannot put a face to your name, all the same good to hear from you.
It is good to hear the apparently good story of your running .co.zw that you tell here below.
We at Malawi .mw used to do what you are doing manually with the registry over six years
ago before we fully automated to FRED, It was a growing mamoth task to do like this
manually. You just have to automate better. Here below are my suggestions.
I have seen your posts on FRED installation on Ubunthu. At .mw we did not choose Ubuntu,
we started with fedora and now use CentOs as our FRED platform, we find it much more
stable and we have gained considerable experience on this.
I expect that if you move to CentOs 8 then you will find installing FRED much smoother and I
can help better.
I got considerable assistance from Jaromir of .cz as copied above, its possible that you can
do the same if you send him mail personally rather that through the mailing list. In many
cases in the past, I have received assistance from the fred-users mailing list BUT I am not
sure why you have not received any assistnce either from .cz ccTLD or from FRED
developers on the mailing list.
I would also recommend you to attend an ICANN meeting where you can interact more
interactively with other FRED users and FRED developers so as to get on the spot answers
to your issues. ICANN76 is the next one in March 2023. You can then check to see who at
.cz or on fred-users list will be there and arrange a meeting.
I am also copying this to Jan Horak who runs one of our registrars on .mw, you may also find
it useful to get in touch with him regarding FRED and registrars.
We find FRED to be very good at .mw but it is a large well organised platform and where you
are now is very much at the beginning, there will be many more issues for you to deal with as
you make it operational. Using the mailing list alone may not work in full. If you can get past
the installation phase such as on Centos8 then the documentation now available on FRED
might get you through the rest.
Let me know if this helps.
Regards,
Paulos
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Dr Paulos B Nyirenda
NIC.MW & .mw ccTLD: http://www.nic.mw
SDNP: http://www.sdnp.org.mw
Tel: +265-(0)-882 089 166
Cell: +265-(0)-888-824787
WhatsApp: +265-(0)-887386433
> The .co.zw registry has over 40 000 domains. On average there are
> around 100 domain updates per day, seven days a week. At the moment
> registrars submit applications for new domains by template. However
> modifications, transfers and deletions can also be processed in bulk
> by submitting files with the lists of domains concerned.
>
> Templates and bulk applications are handled by scripts that I have
> written. They update the .co.zw zone file and send notifies to the
> secondaries. With these scripts I can process and reply to an
> application within 20 seconds if it is straightforward. So at the
> moment the system (which I operate on my own) is quite capable of
> handling well over a hundred updates on a busy day. However obviously
> this is not going to be viable in the long term and so I am very keen
> to migrate the system to an automated one such as FRED, with the
> registrars connecting by EPP instead of sending templates to me by
> email.
>
> Unfortunately I have failed in my attempts to install FRED for test
> purposes, due to incompatible dependency issues, in spite of following
> the very detailed instructions at
> https://fred.nic.cz/documentation/html/AdminManual/Installation/BinsUb
> untu.html
>
> I have registered for the "fred-users" mailing list and submitted the
> details of the problem I have experienced with the installation, but
> have not had any response. I will send you a copy separately.
>
> I understand that you are using FRED for the .mw registry. I wonder if
> you would therefore be able to give me some advice on the steps you
> took to install the software yourself, or simply point out the error
> in the steps that I have taken so far. Your help would be most
> appreciated.
>
> I was interested to read that you obtained your PhD from UNSW, so
> would like to greet you as a fellow UNSW graduate, although in my case
> it was a mere bachelor degree - BE (Mech Eng) Hons 1.
>
> Currently
>
> Regards
>
> Jim Holland
> System Administrator
> Mango, operating on behalf of ZISPA
> Managers of Zimbabwe's .co.zw domain name registry
> Web: www.zispa.org.zw
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