DNS info disapears

Andris Kalnozols andris at hpl.hp.com
Mon Sep 9 07:57:15 UTC 2002


> 	BIND 8 fetches missing glue (including AAAA) when returning
> 	answers (unless the answer is passed through).
> 	
> 	BIND 9 does not fetch missing glue when returning answers.
> 
> 	The first answer was passed through.
> 	The second answer was from the cache causing lookups for
> 	AAAA ns[12].shopcanberra.com.
> 	The third lookup got the cached NXDOMAIN returned by the
> 	AAAA lookups.
> 
> 	Garbage In - Garbage Out
> 
> 	Mark

Yes indeed.  Manually making the AAAA queries to a BIND 9 server
caused it to give the same results as BIND 8 while configuring
"fetch-glue no" caused BIND 8 to behave similarly to BIND 9.

Thanks for explaining this distinction.

Andris



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