DNS info disapears
Andris Kalnozols
andris at hpl.hp.com
Mon Sep 9 07:57:15 UTC 2002
> BIND 8 fetches missing glue (including AAAA) when returning
> answers (unless the answer is passed through).
>
> BIND 9 does not fetch missing glue when returning answers.
>
> The first answer was passed through.
> The second answer was from the cache causing lookups for
> AAAA ns[12].shopcanberra.com.
> The third lookup got the cached NXDOMAIN returned by the
> AAAA lookups.
>
> Garbage In - Garbage Out
>
> Mark
Yes indeed. Manually making the AAAA queries to a BIND 9 server
caused it to give the same results as BIND 8 while configuring
"fetch-glue no" caused BIND 8 to behave similarly to BIND 9.
Thanks for explaining this distinction.
Andris
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