From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 30 15:01:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA08198 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 30 Jan 1997 15:01:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA08179 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 1997 15:01:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA07056; Fri, 31 Jan 1997 00:01:38 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id WAA28769; Thu, 30 Jan 1997 22:39:11 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 22:39:11 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: mrcpu@schizo.cdsnet.net (Jaye Mathisen) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bind 4.9.5-P1 on FreeBSD going bonkers... References: <199701300614.WAA01444@schizo.cdsnet.net> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199701300614.WAA01444@schizo.cdsnet.net>; from Jaye Mathisen on Jan 29, 1997 22:14:06 -0800 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jaye Mathisen wrote: > This is a serious problem, since my squid server won't use any > non-authoritative answers from the DNS, and so several thousand > customers can't access the web. I would consider this behaviour broken. It defeats the idea of the DNS cache. I haven't observed it on our version of squid. > Restarting named *always* fixes it. Of course, since it always blows the DNS cache. Basically, a non- authoritative answer means nothing more than it's an answer not from a primary or secondary server, but out of the DNS cache of some other server (your own one, or a DNS server upstream if you're using the `forwarders' feature). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)