Bind Designated as Root Server?....

[Danny Mayer]

At 02:34 PM 12/28/01, Nate Campi wrote:

>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.
You can stop the DNS Cache service from the Services control panel.
However, that's not why he's seeing this.  The Microsoft IP Tools like ping
will use the WINS Server by default to perform lookups if it has a WINS
Server defined.  The real problem is that he needs to enable forwarders in
named.conf.

         Danny