Re: weird bind cache server behaviour - unexpected root hint delegation on forward only zone

2009-06-15 Thread Paul Sherratt
> Does it matter? Not really, I was just being too picky - wasn't expecting bind to look for authority for forward zones and then got into a red herring with root NS' cached on just two servers when all four are heavily utilised (but turns out our mail servers are only using the first two). Thank

Re: weird bind cache server behaviour - unexpected root hint delegation on forward only zone

2009-06-15 Thread Kevin Darcy
Does it matter? Two of the servers happened to have root NS records cached. You could verify this with rndc dumpdb -cache. The other two servers, apparently, had no root NS records cached. But if the client is just a stub resolver, or set up to forward, it doesn't care about the NS records in

weird bind cache server behaviour - unexpected root hint delegation on forward only zone

2009-06-15 Thread Paul Sherratt
I have 4 bind cache servers running with config close to what is listed at the bottom of this post. All 4 servers have identical bind configuration, running same bind version (9.5.1-P1), almost identical system layouts. The issue is that on two of the four servers, requests for records in the 'dn