ecf_hap@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Andrew Poling) (11/10/89)
In article <13624@boulder.Colorado.EDU> grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu writes: > >Following the Ultrix users guide, I set my host up as a caching name >server; this appears to work well, and nslookup appears to be telling >me that I'm using my own named. > >However, it appears that the local named always consults a higher >level server; this is fine, except when that server (or a gateway) is >down. Operationally, what happens is that when booting (say, after a >power outage), my host hangs for a long time. At first, I thought this >was a YP problem; well, it wasn't. The problem was that resolver calls >to named was eventually timing out & then /etc/hosts was being used. Your authorative server may be using short ttls. While you may have that data in your cache, it also may be stale. If it's stale, BIND won't use it. I did too say more than I quoted!!! -Andy Andy Poling Internet: andy@gollum.hcf.jhu.edu Network Services Group Bitnet: ANDY@JHUVMS Homewood Academic Computing Voice: (301)338-8096 Johns Hopkins University UUCP: mimsy!aplcen!jhunix!gollum!andy