Authoritative Nameserver stops resolving its own queries

Niall O'Reilly Niall.oReilly at ucd.ie
Thu Jul 28 14:37:11 UTC 2005


On 26 Jul 2005, at 09:11, Stefan Puiu wrote:

> Seems like a resolver configuration problem, you should have the
> server's address listen in its own /etc/resolv.conf file (something
> like "nameserver 127.0.0.1").

Or not.

If, like me, you distinguish between "resolver service" on the local
network, and "announcement service" to the Internet at large, you
won't want /etc/resolv.conf pointing at any of your official
authoritative servers, even on those servers themselves.

/Niall




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