Some hints on DNS config?

Barry Margolin barmar at alum.mit.edu
Mon Jul 4 17:33:44 UTC 2005


In article <dabn7e$fgq$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 Peter Dambier <peter at peter-dambier.de> wrote:

> Barry Margolin wrote:
> > The 127.in-addr.arpa domain isn't delegated by the root servers.  By 
> > convention, everyone installs it on their own nameservers.
> > 
> 
> 
> localhost.              86400   IN      SOA     localhost. root.localhost. 42 
> 10800 900 604800 86400
> localhost.              86400   IN      NS      echnaton.styx.
> localhost.              86400   IN      NS      echnaton.niflheim.
> localhost.              86400   IN      A       127.0.0.1
> 
> 
> The example normally forgets to to tell the nameservers.
> It makes no sense to say
> 
> localhost.              86400   IN      NS      localhost
> 
> because the bloody fool who asked for localhost in the first place
> cannot resolve it.

So?  The "bloody fool" is just a stub resolver, it doesn't care who the 
nameservers are.  It always queries it caching server, not the servers 
listed in NS records.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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