How to get BIND to query the right server?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <cdou96$v7e$1 at sf1.isc.org>, adam at irvine.com (Adam Beneschan) 
wrote:

> Even if the problem lies somewhere else than with our server, though,
> I'd still like to know if there's a way to work around the problem so
> that we can access .gov sites.  Since our Machine 1, and apparently
> everyone else's machine, has no problem with this, there must be
> something set up differently (in a cache?), and I'd like to know if
> there's a way to rearrange things on Machine 2 in order to trick BIND
> into working on .gov domains.

No, it's just random luck.  Some of the GOV nameservers are working 
properly, others are not.  Machine 1 was lucky enough to query a good 
one, while Machine 2 happened to query a bad one.

You could try clearing Machine 2's cache, and hope that it lucks onto a 
good server the next time it needs to access the GOV domain.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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