Re: quick BIND question


Subject: Re: quick BIND question
From: Scott Johnson (sjohnson@akghetto.com)
Date: Mon Dec 22 2003 - 15:25:26 AKST


It's quite a bit faster to do a lookup off GCI or ACS, who probably already
has the requested record cached, rather than going to the root, then the
authoritive.

That's the main reason I do it......

Scott

----- Original Message -----
From: "Leif Sawyer" <lsawyer@gci.com>
To: "Scott Johnson" <sjohnson@akghetto.com>; "James Zuelow"
<e5z8652@zuelow.net>; <aklug@aklug.org>
Sent: Monday, 22 December, 2003 13.48
Subject: RE: quick BIND question

> Scott, James,
>
> FWIW, on my nameserver I do not use a forwarders line and I
> am not experiencing this issue.
>
> Is there a reason that you want/need to use that option
> in your configuration?
>
> I understand what it does, i'm just wondering what you're
> trying to accomplish by forwarding all non-authoritative
> queries to a go-between DNS server instead of directly
> to the root-servers?
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Scott Johnson [mailto:sjohnson@akghetto.com]
> > Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2003 12:11 PM
> > To: James Zuelow; aklug@aklug.org
> > Subject: Re: quick BIND question
> >
> >
> > 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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