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When did this ever become [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Oh and in response to your question, I got no idea, only ever used mainly linux
dns servers in my time.
Quoting Matthew Hyne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> I have a network that is connected to the internet via an modem using a
> DDR (dial-on-demand-routing) connection. The connection works fine
> except for the following:
>
> An NT server on the network keeps contacting one of the DNS root servers
> and this brings the link up all the time. The idle-timeout is 20 mins
> and I suspect from the logs that it is doing it very frequently because
> there have been 384 times the connection has gone up in the last two
> weeks (ouch, that will be a big phone bill).
>
> The NT server is running a secondary DNS server. There is one Linux
> primary DNS and another Linux secondary server.
>
> The Linux servers only try to contact the root servers when they cannot
> resolve an address locally. Since the internet connection is not used
> very often so I would only expect this to be 4 or 5 times a week.
>
> Since finding the problem I have removed the NT DNS's address from all
> local machines so nothing should be asking it to resolve a name, yet it
> still insists on contacting the root server so frequently.
>
> Does anyone know what the NT DNS wants to do this and why the Linux
> DNS's only look when they have to ? If I could get rid of the NT DNS I
> would but we need it when we are doing upgrades to the Linux machines.
>
> Matt
>
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