How can I check if my resolution server

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Wed Feb 6 15:25:33 UTC 2002


In article <a3rbbv$7ss at pub3.rc.vix.com>, bob hy  <ssim99fr at yahoo.fr> wrote:
>For this test, I thought I could use dig or host and
>force a authoritative request to bypass the cache et
>be sure that the answer come from Internet ...
>But it always use the cache...

The best idea I can think of is to look for a name that has a very short
TTL, so it's not likely to be cached.  Many web sites that use DNS-based
load sharing and failover (e.g. Distributed Director nameservers) have
TTL's less than a minute.

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