[plug] .org DNS issues

[Adrian Woodley]

Unless it has a forwarder set, bind will perform lookups the 'normal'
why - ie contacting the root server(s) and resolving the domain right to
left.

The .org domains only seem to be down for iiNet (from what I've seen). I
can dig www.gnome.org @dns.uwa.edu.au successfully. Alternatively,
dns.uwa.edu.au may be caching the lookups.

An explanation for Cameron's (?) bind not resolving even though it
doesn't use dns.iinet as a forwarder is iiNet may well be transparently
proxying dns lookups to the root servers.

Regard,
Adrian

On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 12:53, James Devenish wrote:
> In message <20031209044711.GI877 at erdos.home>
> on Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 12:47:11PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 12:41:22PM +0800, James Devenish wrote:
> > | 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?
> > 
> > Contacting the root servers or whatever.
> 
> So, you did have root servers configured, but your BIND *really* still
> couldn't resolve xmlsoft.org? Hmm. Maybe the root server wouldn't honour
> queries from your location (would that be allowed/typical)?
> 
> > | Just as a point of interest, tld1.ultradns.net answers queries for me,
> > | so it doesn't seem as though (say) the entire domain is disappearing.
> > 
> > It consistently times out for me :(
> 
> Aha! Perhaps let the iiNet guy know that?!
> 
> 
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