Unable to resolve anything on "fannindemocrats.org" domain?

Barry Margolin barmar at alum.mit.edu
Wed Jul 7 20:55:53 UTC 2004


In article <cchh5h$1a3p$1 at sf1.isc.org>, Danny Mayer <mayer at gis.net> 
wrote:

> At 02:03 PM 7/7/2004, Barrett (Barry) W. Clark wrote:
> >My resolv.conf has:
> >ns1# cat /etc/resolv.conf
> >nameserver      0.0.0.0
> >ns1#
> >
> >ns2# cat /etc/resolv.conf
> >nameserver      0.0.0.0
> >ns2#
> 
> You really don't want to do that. It needs to be the address of a real DNS 
> server.
> It has no address here that's usable.

0.0.0.0 means "use this machine's address".  This resolv.conf file is 
essentially the same as not having one at all, since the default is to 
query the local machine.

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