bind-8 - How can I reduce query-forwards ?

Wed Jan 17 00:40:34 UTC 2001

Vik Heyndrickx wrote:

> <fups at gmx.net> schreef in bericht news:93q4nm$5g8 at pub3.rc.vix.com...
> > Trouble is, that my DNS seems no to cache addresses. If do for example
> > nslookup for www.gmx.net and repeat this after 30 seconds my DNS forwards
> > the queries both times to our ISP instead of resolving it itself.
>
> How do you know what it is doing? Are you sure it is forwarding that very
> same query again?
> Note: www.gmx.net resolves to about 20 IP addresses.

Yes, and they all have a TTL of 30 seconds, which is rather anti-social if you
ask me.

- Kevin