From owner-freebsd-net Mon Dec 7 03:41:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA17710 for freebsd-net-outgoing; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 03:41:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com (gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com [207.113.159.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA17705 for ; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 03:41:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gdonl@tsc.tdk.com) Received: from sunrise.gv.tsc.tdk.com (root@sunrise.gv.tsc.tdk.com [192.168.241.191]) by gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA11739; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 03:41:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gdonl@tsc.tdk.com) Received: from salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com (salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com [192.168.241.194]) by sunrise.gv.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA24712; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 03:41:20 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gdonl@localhost) by salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA08796; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 03:41:19 -0800 (PST) From: Don Lewis Message-Id: <199812071141.DAA08796@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 03:41:19 -0800 In-Reply-To: Tony Kimball "Re: resolver behaviour" (Dec 6, 2:59pm) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 alpha(3) 7/19/95) To: alk@pobox.com, net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: resolver behaviour Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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