Re: DNS misc

2005-04-19 Thread Paul Lussier
Benjamin Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The real down side of forwarding is that DNS search order breaks (this might be fixed in BIND 9, but was definitely broken with BIND 4.x -- I haven't tried it since then). This has always worked for me just fine with BIND 8.x. I'm even kinda

Re: DNS misc

2005-04-19 Thread Ben Scott
On 4/19/05, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IIRC, the problem was actually the listing of multiple search lines in /etc/resolv.conf. The first search line was referenced, possibly the second, but I believe the tertiary was ignored. FWIW, MS had a similar problem too. Windows would

Re: DNS misc

2005-04-19 Thread Paul Lussier
Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 4/19/05, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IIRC, the problem was actually the listing of multiple search lines in /etc/resolv.conf. The first search line was referenced, possibly the second, but I believe the tertiary was ignored. FWIW, MS had a

Re: DNS misc

2005-04-19 Thread Tom Buskey
On 4/19/05, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: everybody else, Microsoft based their initial IP stack on BSD. I dunno how much of the BSD code survives in current stuff. Was it BSD? I couldn't remember. They seem to have hosed it up pretty well

Re: DNS misc

2005-04-19 Thread Bob Bell
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 05:51:11PM -0400, Tom Buskey wrote: I wonder if there are any TCP stacks that are not derived from BSD. (SCO maybe??? ;-) The Mentat TCP/IP stack (which is STREAMS-focused) is used in a number of different environments, including HP-UX 11i, and a version is in Sun. It's a

DNS misc (was: sendmail SMARTHOST)

2005-04-18 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Derek Martin wrote: You have two options here, too: let your name server do all its own look-ups of host that aren't yours, or have it forward requests to your ISP's servers. Both options have advantages. Recent versions of BIND (8.0 and newer, I think) have an option in