On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 10:57:33AM -0400, Steve Linberg wrote:
> (Hi, Peter, and thank you for your response!)
>
> Is there another way to check it? I deleted the source tree after
> building it. I'm really just about positive I did this already, but I
> don't know any other way to check. Like I said, I did a test mail the the
> large-mx address and it came back with a "no such user" response from the
> remote server.
I would have thought that the ability to send mail at all to
large-mx.ckdhr.com would be a dead giveaway -- that requires TCP for
sure -- it's a 747 byte response, even from dnscache. I'm sure with
'additional' records, it's fscking huge.
I show msn.com's MX response well within the accepted limits, tho:
gregw@frodo:~$ dnsq mx msn.com dns1.sj.msft.net
15 msn.com:
501 bytes, 1+12+0+8 records, response, authoritative, noerror
query: 15 msn.com
Since I was curious, though, I thought I'd ask a BIND server myself. I
did get a _massive_ 801 byte response from a relatively well-known
(locally) public BIND cache... Perhaps your best bet _would_ be using
dnscache.
Do not fear setting up dnscache at all -- I have never installed or
configured a simpler setup if all you want is a local cache:
1. download it.
2. untar it.
3. read http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/install.html. All you've really gotta do
is create to UIDs and run dnscache-conf, and add one symlink, if you're
already running svscan. :)
HTH,
GW
