Re: Should Root Servers Always be Queried First? bind9.7.7

2012-11-07 Thread Martin McCormick
Thanks to all who reminded me how dig resolves lookups. I have since learned that we are apparently having intermittent network issues that are causing a lot of systems to behave oddly and our DNS's are only reflecting those conditions. We were taking anywhere from 0 milliseconds

Re: Should Root Servers Always be Queried First? bind9.7.7

2012-11-07 Thread Josh Kuo
.@lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of > Martin McCormick > Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 1:13 PM > To: bind-users@lists.isc.org > Subject: Should Root Servers Always be Queried First? bind9.7.7 > > If I do: > > dig @localhost +short +trace somehost.okstate.edu > > on a

RE: Should Root Servers Always be Queried First? bind9.7.7

2012-11-07 Thread david
rmick Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 1:13 PM To: bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: Should Root Servers Always be Queried First? bind9.7.7 If I do: dig @localhost +short +trace somehost.okstate.edu on a server authoritative for the okstate.edu domain, I would expect resolution via that authoritative sy

Re: Should Root Servers Always be Queried First? bind9.7.7

2012-11-07 Thread Michael Hoskins (michoski)
-Original Message- From: Martin McCormick Date: Wednesday, November 7, 2012 1:12 PM To: "bind-users@lists.isc.org" Subject: Should Root Servers Always be Queried First? bind9.7.7 >If I do: > >dig @localhost +short +trace somehost.okstate.edu > >on a ser

Should Root Servers Always be Queried First? bind9.7.7

2012-11-07 Thread Martin McCormick
If I do: dig @localhost +short +trace somehost.okstate.edu on a server authoritative for the okstate.edu domain, I would expect resolution via that authoritative system. I do get it but the query takes the scenic route and I get all the root name servers just as if the query was for some host out