Unable to resolve anything on "fannindemocrats.org" domain?

[Danny Mayer]

At 04:55 PM 7/7/2004, Barry Margolin wrote:
>In article <cchh5h$1a3p$1 at sf1.isc.org>, Danny Mayer <mayer at gis.net>
>wrote:
>
> > At 02:03 PM 7/7/2004, Barrett (Barry) W. Clark wrote:
> > >My resolv.conf has:
> > >ns1# cat /etc/resolv.conf
> > >nameserver      0.0.0.0
> > >ns1#
> > >
> > >ns2# cat /etc/resolv.conf
> > >nameserver      0.0.0.0
> > >ns2#
> >
> > You really don't want to do that. It needs to be the address of a real DNS
> > server.
> > It has no address here that's usable.
>
>0.0.0.0 means "use this machine's address".  This resolv.conf file is
>essentially the same as not having one at all, since the default is to
>query the local machine.

This is true of the BIND tools. However, don't bet that the resolver code 
or any other
code will do this.

Danny


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