[ale] named loosing a domain?

Eric Z. Ayers eric.ayers at mindspring.com
Mon Jun 26 19:31:29 EDT 2000


When you run a DNS on a dialup box, you sometimes run into problems 
because of 'negative' caching.  It is caching the fact that it tried
to get that domain once before and got no response.  

I don't know how to fix this, but I haven't read the BIND
documentation lately.

-Eric.

Robert L. Harris writes:
 > 
 > 
 > Ok,
 >   I'm running a debian linux box with the latest packages (potato).  Every
 > now and then I try to mail my father at sunline.net.  Sometimes I get an
 > email 4hrs later it says it can't find the domain.  If I do an nslookup
 > on "sunline.net" it says no such domain.  If I restart bind via rc script
 > and do the lookup again it works great.  I dont seem to have problems with
 > any other domains.
 > 
 >   Anyone have any theories?
 > 
 > Robert
 > 
 > 
 > :wq!
 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 > Robert L. Harris                |  Micros~1 :  
 > Senior System Engineer          |    For when quality, reliability 
 >   at RnD Consulting             |      and security just aren't
 >                                 \_       that important!
 > DISCLAIMER:
 >       These are MY OPINIONS ALONE.  I speak for no-one else.
 > FYI:
 >  perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
 > 
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