Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 03:41:19 -0800 From: Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com> To: alk@pobox.com, net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: resolver behaviour Message-ID: <199812071141.DAA08796@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> In-Reply-To: Tony Kimball <alk@pobox.com> "Re: resolver behaviour" (Dec 6, 2:59pm)
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On Dec 6, 2:59pm, Tony Kimball wrote: } Subject: Re: resolver behaviour } Quoth Gary Palmer on Sun, 6 December: } : Tony Kimball wrote in message ID } : <13930.17883.922553.625725@avalon.east>: } : > Frankly, the current behaviour is just plain broken: Bum nameservers } : > too often prevent FreeBSD applications from connecting to extant } : > hosts on the Internet. } : } : If the local nameserver is bum, then that suggests a local administrative } : failure, does it not? This is exactly the situation you are describing ... the } : local nameserver that the resolver contacts cannot find the information it is } : looking for. } } I'm talking about bad nameservers on the Internet at large. But the name server entries in /etc/resolv.conf point to your local name servers. If you send a query to one of your local name servers for broken-dns.com, and that name server tells you that broken-dns.com doesn't exist, it does not good to send this query to the rest of your local servers, since they'll just send a similar set of queries out to the Internet, get similar responses, and finally tell you that broken-dns.com doesn't exist. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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