NT Bind 4.97 - Caching Only

spierzch at pacbell.net spierzch at pacbell.net
Wed Nov 3 02:13:11 UTC 1999


Our organization has a number of machines running the NT Port of BIND
4.97 which act as caching DNS servers. Although the documentation for
the NT port states that the NT DNS setting in the Network Control panel
will be ignored, we have reports that these machines are using the
Network Applet settings as a 'fall-back' position under circumstances
we have not yet been able to isolate.

This is a situation where the machines are not required to act as a
primary/secondary name server for any domains. We are using BIND in
order to circumvent the effects of regional DNS situations prevalent on
many backbones in the US -- i.e. a server co-located on Backbone X in
New York whose 'regional' DNS resides in Dallas or Chicago.

Has anyone else encountered this? We believe that the workaround is to
place the local machine and a sister machine (on the same subnet also
running BIND 4.97 in cache-only mode) as the DNS servers in the Network
Applet, but would like some feedback from people who have used the NT
Port over an extended period.

Thanks for your help on this.

Stephen Pierzchala





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