From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 3 12:54:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA00344 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 12:54:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.netcetera.dk (root@sleipner.netcetera.dk [194.192.207.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA00188 for ; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 12:53:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from leifn@image.dk) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by mail.netcetera.dk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id VAA23752 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 21:50:57 +0100 Received: by swimsuit.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk (0.99.970109) id AA03857; 03 Mar 98 21:53:19 +0100 From: leifn@image.dk (Leif Neland) Date: 03 Mar 98 13:58:50 +0100 Subject: Re: DNS (was: problem with netscape communicator) Message-ID: Organization: Fidonet: Swimsuit Safari. Go for it. To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 03 Mar 98 12:27:11 Dieter Koegel wrote regarding Re: DNS (was: problem with netscape communicator) DK> actually I'm receiving mail and news at my home office with netscape DK> communicator 4.04 for FreeBSD. (2.2.5-RELEASE) AFAICS this weird DK> communicator tries to connect to my cache only nameserver DK> which connects me to my Ascend pipeline. This is really pain in the ass. DK> Any suggestions to work around this problem are welcome In my boot.cacheonly (I don't think I'm cacheonly, but anyway) I have put secondary image.dk 194.182.101.2 sc.image.dk which makes my named grab the entire zonefile from my providers (image.dk) nameserver 194.182.101.2 and save it in sc.image.dk. I have also done the same for reverse lookup. Then the remote nameserver is only used very seldom, depending on the settings the isp has made regarding how long the files are valid. Leif Neland leifn@image.dk --- |Fidonet: Leif Neland 2:234/49 |Internet: leifn@image.dk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message