Juan Miscaro wrote: > I am running OpenBSD 4.0 and 4.1 systems. On a standalone mail gateway > I have successfully deployed pdnsd as a local dns caching server. > However, on a company network I am having difficulty running this > daemon. Often the thing replies by stating that a domain exists but > does not give back A records. The visible symptom is no output to the > host command (recall that a non-existent domain will give output "not > found: 3(NXDOMAIN)"). Inspection of the cache confirms this (domain > resolves but A records). The key here is that this does not always > happen. We have been having trouble recently with our cisco router > supplied by the isp. We need to reset it occasionally. Is there any > way that this could be causing the trouble?
Of course it can. For problems 'use the dig Luke^WJuan' (dig +trace is very useful) > I don't have enough > installations to test this hypothesis. Other than troubleshooting > help, what are other people using for dns caching? Well, pdns_recursor or bind one of the two actually. If I where you I would first diagnose your network a bit more and start replacing/fixing faulty parts. Greets, Jeroen [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]
