Antw: Re: Secondary DNS

[Kevin Darcy]

Barry Margolin wrote:

>    Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 08:17:20 +0100
>    From: "=?ISO-8859-1?B?Suly9G1lIE1leWVy?=" <jerome.meyer at pax.ch>
>
>    I'm working to check where is the problem on my configuration of the secondary DNS!!!
>    I'm still some questions about DNS or BIND.
>    Please tell me if my understanding for a secondary DNS are correct.
>
>    When named is started, the process check the file /etc/resolv.conf. Then
>
> Named doesn't look at /etc/resolv.conf at all.

Not to be nitpicky, but someone recently pointed out to me that named does actually open
and parse /etc/resolv.conf. It occurs as part of the resolver initialization routine
(res_ninit(), called from main()). So it would be more technically correct to say that
named doesn't "use" /etc/resolv.conf...


- Kevin