Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 12:47:01 +0200 From: Willem Brown <willem@brwn.org> To: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DNS and e-mail. Message-ID: <392BB325.98F067B1@brwn.org> References: <392A6565.B3E2FDD8@brwn.org> <392B8646.43EBFA0F@gorean.org>
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Hi, Well, since it's doing exactly what it should be, I shouldn't complain about it. Thanks for explaining it to me. Regards Willem Brown Doug Barton wrote: > > Willem Brown wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm running a secondary DNS for my domain which is > > hosted by Granitecanyon. The idea was that whenever the two > > main DNS servers are unavailable that mine will be used so > > I don't get cut off from the world completely. > > unfortunately, DNS does not work that way. > > > What then causes my DNS to be queried when I send an > > e-mail to the list? Any ideas? > > The fact that you have it listed in the NS records for your domain. The > terms "primary" and "secondary" are only relative to where you update > the files. Secondary (or slave) nameservers pick up their updates from > the primary or master nameservers. Every nameserver listed in the NS > records will be queried on a more or less equal basis. You see an > increase in traffic because the overall number of queries for your > domain has gone up. > > The only way to resolve this problem is to remove your nameserver from > the NS records. > > HTH, > > Doug > -- > "Live free or die" > - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire > > Do YOU Yahoo!? -- |--------------LINUX & *BSD, the CHOICE is yours--------------| To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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