OT: yahoo dns

[Barry Margolin]

In article <calkb8$csi$1 at sf1.isc.org>, "dave" <dmehler26 at woh.rr.com> 
wrote:

> Hello,
>     I realize this is not a bind related topic, but i am unsure as to where
> else to post this. Please respond privately with any input.

comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains is the place for general DNS questions.

>     I've got a situation where a cable user on a static IP is using yahoo
> for dns to resolve two web sites, let's call them www.example1.com and
> www.example2.com. The sites themselves are hosted on a FreeBSD 5.2.1 box
> that is running apache2, behind an ipfilter firewall. The firewall is set to
> forward port80 trafic to the web server which it does just fine, pull up
> www.example1.com and you get the first site. Now if you pull up either
> example* site from within the network you get each site, however external,
> that is requests from internet users, going to www.example2.comm end up on
> the first site. I don't think this is a virtual host issue with apache2 as
> internally they both work. Also, external requests to either site give the
> public IP address vs. the site name in the address bar. My only theory is it
> has something to do with the way yahoo handles there dns. If anyone has any
> input i'd appreciate it.

I don't know what you mean by "using yahoo for dns to resolve two web 
sites".  Do you mean Yahoo is operating the authoritative DNS servers 
for the domains, or Yahoo is operating the caching server that the 
servers' resolvers are using?

Anyway, you haven't really given us enough information to tell what's 
going on.  In particular, you have to tell us the real domains that are 
involved.

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