[geeks] speaking of proper setup..

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 10:11:45PM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote:

> One of the most important things a DNS administrator must learn to do
> when debugging DNS problems is to query not just some local
> authoritative nameserver, but also other caching (recursive) nameservers
> to be sure they can fetch the desired answers from the authoritative
> nameserver (and to do so more than once if you suspect the parent zone
> has a different list of NS records than those found within the zone on
> an authoritative nameserver).

> Turns out that because 'ohno.mrbill.net' is not just a mail server name,
> but also the name of an NS record, my nameserver had cached an older set
> of records for that name and due to quirks in the way resolvers work, it
> doesn't have to go looking for more records when it already has what it
> thinks are all the relevant records.

<snip far out techie stuff> 

*wimple*

And here I was planning a quite evening configuring a server, and well, I
just got too scared to do it.  Just when I was beginning to think that Unix
was userfriendly.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd