On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 04:43:48PM +0200, shaun bugler wrote:
> Scenario:
> Computer A: doesn't have bind installed. Its DNS points to computer B.
> Computer B: has bind installed, is a valid DNS server, has its DNS
> server set to PC C.
> Computer C:has bind, is a valid DNS server, on another network
> somewhere.
> If B does a query for hetzner.co.za, it asks C to do this.
> Heres the question: A asks for hetzner.co.za, B gets the query, does it
> do the look-up or does it defer it to C?
If A is asking the nameserver running on B, then the nameserver on B
does whatever you've configured it to do.  You describe Computer B as
"has its DNS server set to PC C," which I would take to either mean
you've put C in B's resolv.conf, or you've configured B to forward
queries to C.  Nameservers do not consult resolv.conf.  So, in the first
case, B's nameserver would do the lookup itself; in the second case, B's
nameserver would forward the query to C's nameserver, which will do the
lookup on B's behalf.

-- 
Ed Schmollinger - schmolli@frozencrow.org

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