Long response for a non-authoritative answers

[Brad Knowles]

At 3:57 PM +0800 9/20/01, Bind Users wrote:

>  I connect to my local bind-9.13 DNS server. I do nslookup to resolve
>  domain names and I get a non-authoritative answer. However the response
>  time is very long.

	Right.  That means that the answer is not in your local cache, so 
your local nameserver has to go find the answer before it can display 
it to you.

>  Is there any possibility that I could get the non-authoritative answer
>  from the remote sites instead of from the cache in my local DNS server.

	Sure.  Find out where their zone is hosted, and then ask their 
authoritative servers.  But since this is exactly what BIND does when 
operating as a caching/recursive nameserver, you would be duplicating 
that function.  Moreover, since you would be following all those 
steps manually, you'd have to take a much, much longer time running 
through that process than BIND does.

	There are times when you want an application to do the recursion 
itself, but I sincerely doubt that the situation you describe is one 
of them.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

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