Some questions about bind

[Barry Margolin]

In article <c78i3d$11km$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 Chris Cox <chris_cox at stercomm.com> wrote:

> Jeff Lasman wrote:
> ...
> > 
> > 
> > It will stop after it receives it's first response, whether that 
> > response is authoritative, non-authoritive, or NXDOMAIN.
> 
> Except on Linux where there are SERIOUS problems with
> the resolver.

We're explaining the behavior of recursive nameservers, not resolvers.

> 
> You'll find the resolver making needless queries to the
> nameserver for names that CANNOT exist.
> 
> Try running ethereal and do a query for an unqualified
> name.  Why on earth does Linux attempt to send the unqualified
> name to the nameservers??  It's like it's set to ndots=0.
> But it's not.  It's hard to figure out what it is doing???
> You can imagine the delays caused if one of the nameservers
> is down.

If the resolver automatically appended a domain suffix, and that name 
doesn't exist, it's supposed to try the name as originally given.

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