A beginners question regarding a caching-only name server

[Torinthiel]


Dnia 2011-04-08 23:00 Patrick Rynhart napisał(a):

>On 8/04/2011 10:11 p.m., Tony Finch wrote:
>
>> No, only DNS requests that are handled by the server itself are cached.
>> There is no sniffing going on.
>> 
>> Tony.
>
>Thank you for the clarification.  If I add "nameserver 127.0.0.1" to the
>VM (and comment out the existing name servers) and attempt to resolve a
>DNS entry, the I see output similar to the following:
>
>08-Apr-2011 22:51:50.116 network unreachable resolving
>'www.redhat.com/A/IN': 2001:500:2f::f#53
>08-Apr-2011 22:51:54.023 network unreachable resolving
>'www.redhat.com/A/IN': 2001:503:c27::2:30#53
>08-Apr-2011 22:51:54.024 network unreachable resolving './NS/IN':
>2001:503:c27::2:30#53
>
>I understand that this is because there is no upstream DNS for BIND as
>configured in my named.conf.  However, if I try to add a forward

It might be, but it also might be because you have no IPv6 connectivity.
Regards,
 Torinthiel