Some hints on DNS config?
Barry Margolin
barmar at alum.mit.edu
Mon Jul 4 17:33:44 UTC 2005
In article <dabn7e$fgq$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
Peter Dambier <peter at peter-dambier.de> wrote:
> Barry Margolin wrote:
> > The 127.in-addr.arpa domain isn't delegated by the root servers. By
> > convention, everyone installs it on their own nameservers.
> >
>
>
> localhost. 86400 IN SOA localhost. root.localhost. 42
> 10800 900 604800 86400
> localhost. 86400 IN NS echnaton.styx.
> localhost. 86400 IN NS echnaton.niflheim.
> localhost. 86400 IN A 127.0.0.1
>
>
> The example normally forgets to to tell the nameservers.
> It makes no sense to say
>
> localhost. 86400 IN NS localhost
>
> because the bloody fool who asked for localhost in the first place
> cannot resolve it.
So? The "bloody fool" is just a stub resolver, it doesn't care who the
nameservers are. It always queries it caching server, not the servers
listed in NS records.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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