Cache problem.

[Brad Knowles]

At 11:30 AM +0200 2005-05-30, Thomas Kinghorn [MTNNS -Rosebank] wrote:

>  I am using the local root server as the first option in "root.hint"

	Local root server?  As in an internal root, disconnected from the 
external "real" root servers?

>  We have had an international failure and as a result, none of our
>  clients can get dns resolution.
>
>  I thought this would have been eliminated by using the local root cache.
>
>  In the root.hints, its server 'F'

	I'm confused.  Are you trying to list your own internal root 
server as just *one* of the servers in the root hints file?  If so, 
then don't do that -- it's all or nothing.  Either you list all the 
external "real" root servers in that file, or you list only your 
internal root servers, but you can't mix and match.

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