Upgrade to 8.2.1 causing problems

Jennifer Sayers jenjen at mail.usyd.edu.au
Tue Sep 28 01:25:03 UTC 1999


Geoff Steer  <Geoff.Steer at fujitsu.com.au> wrote:
>We've recently updated the hardware of our name server and took the
>opportunity to upgrade to a later version of BIND. All seems well except
>for certain queries.
>
>1. If I try a lookup to www.microsoft.com it fails except for the first
>lookup after a named restart.

I have found that www.microsoft.com isn't a very good name to test with.
It seems to have a very low TTL (zero?), and thus doesn't stay in your
cache.  This can be confusing when you are looking at a problem.

jen.


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