Bind Designated as Root Server?....

Nate Campi nate at wired.com
Fri Dec 28 19:34:26 UTC 2001


On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 02:53:11PM +0000, Barry Margolin wrote:
> In article <a0hsgc$q0d at pub3.rc.vix.com>,

> >ping yahoo.com
> >
> >i get the right response from it. telling the ip address of yahoo.
> 
> That's very strange.  Maybe you have it in your HOSTS.TXT file?  Ping will
> look in both the file and DNS, but nslookup just queries DNS.

Is this Win2K? It caches DNS responses, so if you successfully queried
for yahoo.com earlier against another nameserver, you might still have
it cached.

Type 'ipconfig /flushdns' at the command prompt to flush your DNS cache
under Win2K.
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