Re: DNS misc

2005-04-19 Thread Paul Lussier
Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The real down side of forwarding is that DNS search order breaks >> (this might be fixed in BIND 9, but was definitely broken with BIND >> 4.x -- I haven't tried it since then). > >This has always worked for me just fine with BIND 8.x. I'm even >

Re: DNS misc

2005-04-19 Thread Ben Scott
On 4/19/05, Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IIRC, the problem was actually the listing of multiple search lines in > /etc/resolv.conf. The first search line was referenced, possibly the > second, but I believe the tertiary was ignored. FWIW, MS had a > similar problem too. Windows woul

Re: DNS misc

2005-04-19 Thread Paul Lussier
Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 4/19/05, Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> IIRC, the problem was actually the listing of multiple search lines in >> /etc/resolv.conf. The first search line was referenced, possibly the >> second, but I believe the tertiary was ignored. FWIW, M

Re: DNS misc

2005-04-19 Thread Tom Buskey
On 4/19/05, Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > everybody else, Microsoft based their initial IP stack on BSD. I > > dunno how much of the BSD code survives in current stuff. > > Was it BSD? I couldn't remember. They seem to have hosed it up >

Re: DNS misc

2005-04-19 Thread Bob Bell
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 05:51:11PM -0400, Tom Buskey wrote: I wonder if there are any TCP stacks that are not derived from BSD. (SCO maybe??? ;-) The Mentat TCP/IP stack (which is STREAMS-focused) is used in a number of different environments, including HP-UX 11i, and a version is in Sun. It's a

Re: DNS misc

2005-04-20 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Apr 19 at 5:51pm, Tom Buskey wrote: OBLinux: Linux has a BSD based stack too. s/has/had/ It was just about totally rewritten by Alan Cox, around 2.0 or 2.2, IIRC. -- Ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug

DNS misc (was: sendmail SMARTHOST)

2005-04-18 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Derek Martin wrote: You have two options here, too: let your name server do all its own look-ups of host that aren't yours, or have it forward requests to your ISP's servers. Both options have advantages. Recent versions of BIND (8.0 and newer, I think) have an option in