Subject: Re: quick BIND question
From: Scott Johnson (sjohnson@akghetto.com)
Date: Sat Dec 20 2003 - 12:10:54 AKST
Yes James, that was it! Thank you very much!
Scott
-----Original Message-----
From: James Zuelow <e5z8652@zuelow.net>
To: Scott Johnson <sjohnson@akghetto.com>
Cc: aklug@aklug.org
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 11:18:51 -0900
Subject: Re: quick BIND question
> On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 22:43:28 -0900
> "Scott Johnson" <sjohnson@akghetto.com> wrote:
>
> > Is it normal for my BIND server to return a list of the root servers
> when I do a dig lookup?
> >
> (snip)
> >
> > (it doesn't matter the host I look up - I just used www.gci.net as an
> example)
> >
> > Is it normal for the root servers to get returned for the
> "authoritive" response? If not, how
> > do I fix this?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Scott
> >
>
> Let me guess:
>
> forwarders {
> 209.165.131.12;
> 209.165.131.13;
> };
>
> Am I right?
>
> Try:
>
> forwarders {
> 208.138.130.16;
> 206.96.62.16;
> };
>
> And the root servers will go away. I don't know why they're doing that
> - IMHO you should not get a response from the root servers when doing a
> host lookup. Perhaps GCI isn't done configuring the new DNS servers
> yet?
>
> Cheers,
>
> James
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