DNS server having DNS server

Barry Margolin barry.margolin at level3.com
Mon Oct 27 18:22:27 UTC 2003


In article <bnjkon$2ut8$1 at sf1.isc.org>, shaun bugler  <sb at hetzner.co.za> wrote:
>Scenario:
>Computer A: doesn't have bind installed. Its DNS points to computer B.
>Computer B: has bind installed, is a valid DNS server, has its DNS
>server set to PC C.
>Computer C:has bind, is a valid DNS server, on another network
>somewhere.
>If B does a query for hetzner.co.za, it asks C to do this.
>Heres the question: A asks for hetzner.co.za, B gets the query, does it
>do the look-up or does it defer it to C?

It does the look-up itself.  The BIND nameserver doesn't make any use of
the system's resolver.

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Barry Margolin, barry.margolin at level3.com
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