catching up ....

 On 04 Mar 2004 18:51:44 -0500, os2userl{at}wpusa.dynip.com wrote:

>when you run your own DNS server, as suggested above, and to which i just
>replied in another message, your ISP's DNS servers don't come into play at
>all... in fact, they are completely bypassed and ignored unless they are
>queried for info about a machine in your ISP's domain...

It appears to me that this behavior is modified by the presence of
additional 'nameserver' lines in RESOLV2 and by entries in the
'forwarders' section of named.conf

I set each of these to generally dependable DNS servers, including my
ISP.

I haven't sorted out which sequence is used by local BIND when it isn't
authoritative for a zone, or doesn't have it cached, but it is
certainly either RESOLV2 (or RESOLV) or the 'forwarders' in named.conf

In one test, the queried system was first found in RESOLV, being later
in the chain in other files.

--Maynard




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