[plug] .org DNS issues

Jay Turner jturner at bsis.com.au
Tue Dec 9 12:51:35 WST 2003


> In message <20031209043621.GH877 at erdos.home>
> on Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 12:36:21PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> > I'm no DNS expert, but surely the fact that I couldn't resolve it even
> > when my bind was set up with no forwarders
>
> No forwarders? How exactly was BIND supposed to resolve any non-local
> names?

As I understand it BIND will go direct to a root nameserver rather than a
closer upstream DNS as defined by 'forwarders'

Jay





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