Need some help with a BIND server

[Barry Margolin]

In article <cbdc27$64m$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 Jason <jwilliams at courtesymortgage.com> wrote:

> I was thinking about this more as the day went on, trying to get some 
> idea of what went wrong. Could this be some type of configuration 
> problem? Maybe something to do with TTL? Since my server is getting 

There's nothing to configure -- TTLs come from the authoritative 
servers, caching servers don't change them.

> information from our ISP's DNS server, maybe the cache was cleared out 
> on the ISP servers? Just trying to gather ideas here because I want to 
> try and prevent this from happening again.

Why are you using the ISP's servers in the first place?  Anyway, even 
when forwarders if enabled, your server will cache results by itself; it 
only queries the forwarders when the answer isn't already in its cache.

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