Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 22:39:11 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: mrcpu@schizo.cdsnet.net (Jaye Mathisen) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bind 4.9.5-P1 on FreeBSD going bonkers... Message-ID: <Mutt.19970130223911.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199701300614.WAA01444@schizo.cdsnet.net>; from Jaye Mathisen on Jan 29, 1997 22:14:06 -0800 References: <199701300614.WAA01444@schizo.cdsnet.net>
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As Jaye Mathisen wrote: > This is a serious problem, since my squid server won't use any > non-authoritative answers from the DNS, and so several thousand > customers can't access the web. I would consider this behaviour broken. It defeats the idea of the DNS cache. I haven't observed it on our version of squid. > Restarting named *always* fixes it. Of course, since it always blows the DNS cache. Basically, a non- authoritative answer means nothing more than it's an answer not from a primary or secondary server, but out of the DNS cache of some other server (your own one, or a DNS server upstream if you're using the `forwarders' feature). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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