Ed Greshko wrote:
Don Russell wrote:
I added some information to my named configuration so sendmail could
resolve the reverse look up of the private LAN addresses.... or at least
get an error quickly instead of timing out
In order for this to work, I manually changed /etc/resolv.conf ,
deleting the exisiting nameserver statements, and adding nameserver
127.0.0.1
Works great.... UNTIL the network is restarted and the resolv.conf file
is rewritten.... then the nameserver statements are back to the
addresses from the ISP obtained via DHCP.
So, for an interesting experiment, I reconfigured the dhcp server in my
router (cisco) to not pass the ISP DNS addresses to my server, instead
use 127.0.0.1
Frankly, I wasn't expecting the server to be able to resolve any other
addresses.... but it does....
Why? Seems silly to be asking why something DOES work.... but I don't
understand how it can be resolving names like google.com, ibm.com etc
etc, when it was not told which dns servers to use, other than "ask
yourself"....
What am I missing? ;-)
In your named.conf do you have something like:
zone "." {
type hint;
file "named.root";
};
If so, you have told your DNS server what it needs to do.
Yes, I just looked at that... the file has a different name (named.ca),
but it seems to describe all the root servers....
I gather that means my FC5 box is now using the root servers directly to
resolve addresses instead of "lower", possibly caching, servers.
hmmm, that doesn't sound good... :-( But I'm pretty new to dns details....
