[Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] >Bob Brennan wrote: >> I am of course open to suggestions but am at the moment waiting for >> Demon to correct the hacked entries on their nameservers, if that >> doesn't work - I'll be back for more help! > >This issue is probably only affecting Demon's customers at the moment >(assuming the same problem has not manifested itself on other providers' >nameservers). > >The main issue for you is that your own server is rewriting addresses >due to the bogus CNAME records. You can avoid this easily by installing >a caching nameserver on your own mail server. This will insulate you >from your ISP's DNS issues and may actually result in improved >performance for your mail server overall. This could be as simple as: > >yum install caching-nameserver >chkconfig named on >service named start > >Then edit /etc/resolv.conf, remove the existing nameserver entries and >add a "nameserver 127.0.0.1" entry. Your system should then be doing its >own DNS lookups and shouldn't see the bogus CNAME records. > >You may need to add PEERDNS=no to /etc/sysconfig/network to prevent your >/etc/resolv.conf getting clobbered by a DHCP client. > Couldnt similar be achieved by making temporary entries in /etc/hosts without having to install anything? Trry. > Paul. > >-- >fedora-list mailing list >fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx >To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
