From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jan 19 13: 1: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from earth.backplane.com (placeholder-dcat-1076843399.broadbandoffice.net [64.47.83.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CB8837B401 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 13:00:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by earth.backplane.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id f0JL0Z398099; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 13:00:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 13:00:35 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Dillon Message-Id: <200101192100.f0JL0Z398099@earth.backplane.com> To: Mike Tancsa Cc: Subject: Re: RE: Weird sporadic DNS resolution problems References: <5.0.1.4.0.20010119154445.01ec8bc0@marble.sentex.ca> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG : :At 11:48 AM 1/19/01 -0800, Matt Dillon wrote: : :> Don't do that! :> :> If the broken hosts have at least one working name server, then you :> can use options in named.conf to make bind ignore the broken servers. :> The bind documentation has all the information you need to make this :> work. This is a whole lot safer then creating static entries in :> /etc/hosts. : :Are you referring to auth-nxdomain ? Or something else ? : : ---Mike Let me find it... ah, here, look at the 'server' option. file:/usr/share/doc/bind/html/server.html And also the 'blackhole' option: file:/usr/share/doc/bind/html/options.html -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message