Corey Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm running into the CNAMEs error that everyone else seems to have trouble
> with at some point in time. I have Bruce's qmail-patch18 version of qmail
> (which includes the big-dns patch) but I'm still having quiet a lot of
> trouble. Here's an example:
[...]
> Notice that it works just fine after I do an nslookup for hotmail.com.
> Course, after awhile that seems to go away and I have to redo an 'nslookup
> hotmail.com' to get emails to hotmail.com to work.
> Anyone have any ideas what might be causing this?
Sounds like a DNS caching problem. Since you're running BIND 8, you
should have dig (better than nslookup). So next time it happens try:
dig hotmail.com any +norec
That will show you what is in BIND's cache for hotmail.com (the +norec
will make it a non-recursive query).
My guess is that your cache is getting confused somehow and is failing
to look up hotmail.com. Why? Well, since hotmail in their infinite
wis-dumb has put 30 minute TTLs on their in-zone NS records, I suspect
that has something to do with it....
You may want to consider moving to djbdns instead of BIND. It probably
deals with this better.
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