Glue records and unable to resolve

lamerfreak laaaamerfreeeeak at namor.ca
Mon Sep 12 03:56:06 UTC 2005


>>>So you're looking for some sort of "please_poison_my_cache" option?
>>>
>>>- Kevin
>>>    
>>Kinda.  I read and re-read the BIND9 administrator manual, tested,
>>modified, and tweaked my configuration in some ways, and ... was just
>>wondering how it's set up to not respond at all.  My server looks it
>>up; my ISP's don't.  I'm more curious.
>>
>Glue-chasing and in-bailiwick-versus-out-of-bailiwick determination are 
>things that have varied significantly between DNS implementations and 
>even between versions of the same DNS implementation (e.g. BIND). I'm 
>not aware of any way within any BIND version to configure the behavior, 
>though, and I think the latest versions of BIND take the "safest" 
>approach because of the cache-poisoning dangers of doing otherwise.
>
>-Kevin
>

Thank you for the response... though it seems odd, that the behaviour
is... system/build-dependant?  Am I getting that right?

Well, mine took a dive, so I get to rebuild the latest BIND... I'll
see how it responds after.



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