DNS: querying route DNS

2005-01-14 Thread relax think
hi, i want to query root servers directly instead of my ISP dns and for tht have used couple of commands like " tracert " and route through (RT) but wasnt able to query root server directly , if u know how to directly query root server thn plz help thanks Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your lif

Re: DNS: querying route DNS

2005-01-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
relax think wrote: i want to query root servers directly instead of my ISP dns and for tht have used couple of commands like " tracert " and route through (RT) but wasnt able to query root server directly , if u know how to directly query root server thn plz help Use dig(1). Eg. to see the names

Re: DNS: querying route DNS

2005-01-14 Thread Andrew P.
Matthew Seaman wrote: If your ISPs nameservers are unreliable or overloaded, and not giving you a good service, then one course of action you might consider is just configuring the named(8) built into your FreeBSD system to do recursive DNS lookups for you. (And caching -- but that's a given for

Re: DNS: querying route DNS

2005-01-14 Thread Dick Davies
* Andrew P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0122 14:22]: > Matthew Seaman wrote: > >If your ISPs nameservers are unreliable or overloaded, and not giving > >you a good service, then one course of action you might consider is just > >configuring the named(8) built into your FreeBSD system to do recursive >

Re: DNS: querying route DNS

2005-01-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
Andrew P. wrote: Matthew Seaman wrote: If your ISPs nameservers are unreliable or overloaded, and not giving you a good service, then one course of action you might consider is just configuring the named(8) built into your FreeBSD system to do recursive DNS lookups for you. (And caching -- but t

Re: DNS: querying route DNS

2005-01-14 Thread Andrew P.
Matthew Seaman wrote: Sure. Assuming you're using 5.3-RELEASE, 5.3-STABLE or better, then setting up a recursive-only nameserver is really very simple. The system comes with BIND-9.3.0 as standard, and it has all of the chroot-ing functionality available just by default. All you need do is add

Re: DNS: querying route DNS

2005-01-16 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Jan 14 at 16:39, Matthew Seaman patiently explained: > Andrew P. wrote: >> Matthew Seaman wrote: >> >> I'm sure it won't be difficult for anyone to find a named(8) how-to, >> but I'd be very glad to see your post, please. I currently use djbdns, >> but I'm not very happy with it and I'd like t