From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 24 0:36:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89CE437B681 for ; Wed, 24 May 2000 00:36:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA53824; Wed, 24 May 2000 00:35:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Message-ID: <392B8646.43EBFA0F@gorean.org> Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 00:35:34 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT-0523 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Willem Brown Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DNS and e-mail. References: <392A6565.B3E2FDD8@brwn.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Willem Brown wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm running a secondary DNS for my domain which is > hosted by Granitecanyon. The idea was that whenever the two > main DNS servers are unavailable that mine will be used so > I don't get cut off from the world completely. unfortunately, DNS does not work that way. > What then causes my DNS to be queried when I send an > e-mail to the list? Any ideas? The fact that you have it listed in the NS records for your domain. The terms "primary" and "secondary" are only relative to where you update the files. Secondary (or slave) nameservers pick up their updates from the primary or master nameservers. Every nameserver listed in the NS records will be queried on a more or less equal basis. You see an increase in traffic because the overall number of queries for your domain has gone up. The only way to resolve this problem is to remove your nameserver from the NS records. HTH, Doug -- "Live free or die" - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message