Re: your mail

[Sematimba Noah K <ksemat at wawa.eahd.or.ug>]

> No. resolv.conf is only use by the resolver (client-side) library which is
> used when a process on _your_ machine asks to do a DNS lookup. When a remote
The reason for this is as follows:
I have a nameserver web.eahd.or.ug which serves only one zone:
ug. and it does not do recursive lookups.
Now here is the interesting part:

; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>>  at web.eahd.or.ug ug +norec ns
; (1 server found)
;; res options: init defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 10966
;; flags: qr aa; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 5, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 5
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;	ug, type = NS, class = IN

;; ANSWER SECTION:
ug.			4H IN NS	demon.mtn.co.ug.
ug.			4H IN NS	ns.icann.org.
ug.			4H IN NS	ns.ripe.net.
ug.			4H IN NS	web.eahd.or.ug.
ug.			4H IN NS	ns.sanyutel.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
demon.mtn.co.ug.	4H IN A		212.88.97.20
ns.icann.org.		23h28m40s IN A	192.0.34.126
ns.ripe.net.		23h28m40s IN A	193.0.0.193
web.eahd.or.ug.		5h14m3s IN A	216.129.132.179
ns.sanyutel.com.	23h28m40s IN A	216.250.215.5

;; Total query time: 1 msec
;; FROM: spice to SERVER: web.eahd.or.ug  216.129.132.179
;; WHEN: Sun Jul  1 18:51:30 2001
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 20  rcvd: 233

I wonder where it gets the records for the additional section if it is not
doing recursive lookups. This query was done on the actual machine itself.

Noah.


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