[luau] Re: no answers from roadrunner dns

Ray Strode halfline at hawaii.rr.com
Wed Mar 5 12:54:01 PST 2003


>
>
>That is a good explanation of the iterative lookup. However, it
>is my understanding that the client does not normally perform
>this.
>
Oh, could be.

> I always thought it was up to the DNS servers configured on
>your system to ultimately perform that role.
>
It certainly makes sense for dns servers to iteratively query other dns 
servers, but
to me it also makes sense that clients would want to.  Whether they do 
in practice,
I don't know.

>To verify, I edited /etc/resolv.conf on a few systems to point
>to different nameservers that I knew did not answer recursive
>queries from external networks and could not resolve an IP
>address that belonged to a third external network. (I tested on
>Debian, FreeBSD, Red Hat, and Solaris.)
>
Well, sounds like you are right then.  Interesting...

--Ray




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