Bind resolving other nameservers

[Steve Job]

>       Why did you lie when you registered the zone?

I didn't think it was lieing.  In real world there are actually 5 DNS
servers.  And it takes time to add the domains to all of the boxes.
I was just wondering what would happen if I wasn't able to manually
enter them all into the /etc/named.conf files in time.

With thousands of domains I'm sure it's possible to miss sone.


Thanks for your response,
-Steve



On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 Mark_Andrews at isc.org wrote:

> 
> > 
> > 
> > I need a little clarification in this.
> > 
> > If I had my domain set at my registrar to use:
> > ns1.mydomain.com
> > ns2.mydomain.com
> > 
> > 
> > ns1.mydomain.com is running Bind and is working perfectly.
> > 
> > ns2.mydomain.com is running Bind but it has not been configured as a slave ye
> > t.
> > 
> > 
> > Will users receive DNS errors?  Will all requests just go to
> > ns1?  Or will all requests goto ns1 only if ns2 is unreachable or
> > does not have Bind running.
> > 
> > Thanks for some help.
> > -Steve
> 
> 	Why did you lie when you registered the zone?
> 
> 	The queries will go to both.  Those that go to ns2 will have
> 	to be retried.  Some (not all) nameservers will cache the fact
> 	that ns2 is lame and not use it for a short period (in named
> 	this defaults to 10 minutes).
> 
> 	Mark
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