On Tuesday 17 January 2006 15:53, joseph mpora wrote: > yes I have tried dig <domain> @another_nameserver and > its fine. This is what I think bind checks (correct me > if am wrong) > > - local domain > - internal cache > - forwarders > - root servers
Name resolution by DNS normally starts the the other way around, right to left, e.g. lug.or.ug. where the last . is a root name server, then ug, then .or, and so on and so forth. > Given these steps, bind should be able to get the > answer (unless of course the domain doesn't exist) If a domain is well registered and being served by some authoritative name server, and that name server and your resolver have a decent Internet connection, your query will yield results. > Is there a way of configuring bind to follow the query > til it gets an authoritative answer? BIND has a hint file (named.hint or named.root) that knows about all the root name servers. Of course, BIND will check your local 'named.conf' to see if "this" server is authoritative for the requested zone. It's a straight forward operation, even in a stock installation. Mark.
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