DNS misc

[Paul Lussier]

Benjamin Scott <dragonhawk at iname.com> writes:

>> The real down side of forwarding is that DNS search order breaks
>> (this might be fixed in BIND 9, but was definitely broken with BIND
>> 4.x -- I haven't tried it since then).
>
>    This has always worked for me just fine with BIND 8.x.  I'm even
>    kinda surprised this would ever care about forwarding, as the
>    domain search list is implemented by the resolver library, not
>    named.  But BIND 4.x did a lot of funky shit, so I'm not *totally*
>    surprised.  :)

IIRC, the problem was actually the listing of multiple search lines in
/etc/resolv.conf.  The first search line was referenced, possibly the
second, but I believe the tertiary was ignored.  FWIW, MS had a
similar problem too.  Windows would allow you enter primary and
secondary name server, but then would ignore all subsequently listed
servers.

Hmmm, I wonder if they just ripped the BIND resolver library code and
ported it bug-for-bug ;)

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Seeya,
Paul