The computers in the domain were all up. So even if the entries were cached shouldn't the requests still work. (I thought the zone entries were cached not the DNS)
I though with the first two servers down, the request would go to the third server. What am I missing? david On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Barry Johnson wrote: > This has to do with how long you primary and secondary dns servers have > been down. Since most dns servers operate a cache it will take awhile > for all the correct settings to propagate around the ether world. If > they have been down for more than a couple of days I would say your dns > server isn't properly registered. To work around this I would assign > the ip address of your primary dns server to the third one that is still > up if that is possible. > > Barry Johnson > Systems Administrator > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of dbrett > Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 1:53 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: OT: DNS > > > This is more of an Internet DNS question. We have three DNS servers > registered for our domain. Unfortuantely two of the servers are down > and the third one is up and operational. > If someone were to do a query for the domain it would fail. If the > query was done to the third DNS directly it would succed. > > Does anybody understand why? > > david > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
