Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 08:42:52 -0500 (EST) From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@kot.ne.mediaone.net> To: Greg Work <y2k@picknowl.com.au> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fw: BIND 8.2.2-P5 Message-ID: <199911231342.IAA98740@rtfm.newton> In-Reply-To: <00c301bf3597$ac4b19c0$02fca8c0@qman> from Greg Work at "Nov 23, 1999 08:16:43 pm"
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Greg Work once stated:
= <snip>
=
= // If you've got a DNS server around at your upstream provider, enter
= // its IP address here, and enable the line below. This will make you
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
= // benefit from its cache, thus reduce overall DNS traffic in the Internet.
=
= forwarders {
= 203.11.90.1;
= 203.11.90.240;
= 127.0.0.1;
= };
=
= <endsnip>
=
= From memory, the problem ended up coming from the forwarders line. If
= you place the localhost 127.0.0.1 entry above your ISP's this seems to
= occur.
This seems VERY wrong. Why do you need 127.0.0.1 there at all? Unless
you are running ANOTHER name-server on the localhost, this means, you
are instructing named to talk to itself.
The 127.0.0.1 goes in front of the ISP's servers in the /etc/resolv.conf
-mi
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