Server ignore ns change

Barry Margolin barmar at alum.mit.edu
Wed May 14 20:42:15 UTC 2008


In article <g0f7jk$69j$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 dhottinger at harrisonburg.k12.va.us wrote:

> Some os's cache dns/dhcp info.

As do many resolver libraries.  They only consult /etc/resolv.conf the 
first time a resolver function is invoked in a process.  So if you have 
long-running processes (e.g. mail daemons) they won't notice when you 
make changes -- you need to restart the daemons to force them to update.

> 
> ddh
> 
> 
> Quoting Jonathan Petersson <jpetersson at garnser.se>:
> 
> > Hi.
> > We recently introducted two new dns server in our networks removing our old
> > ones from the DHCP. I've updated the servers which had resolv.conf
> > statically. Even though all servers is updated I'm still getting most
> > requests to my old servers.
> >
> > If I do a dig the new servers answers.
> >
> > What could the reason for this be?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > /Jonathan
> >
> >
> >

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