Re: Weird named problem - IN A for nameservers being lost!

2001-07-17 Thread Len Conrad
Here´s an explanation from today´s BIND-users traffic: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Path: not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: comp.protocols.dns.bind Subject: Re: Am I wrong? References: <9j1i3n$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: Genuity, Cambridge, MA Higher-level servers

Re: Weird named problem - IN A for nameservers being lost!

2001-07-17 Thread Len Conrad
> If you look at the cache dumps and dig output below, you can clearly > see the timeout for fuji.jamcracker.com is less then the timeout > for jamcracker.com AFTER we've looked up other elements for fuji, > which means that when it timed out, that IN A record will be gone. >

Re: Weird named problem - IN A for nameservers being lost!

2001-07-16 Thread Matt Dillon
:... :> Interesting. He describes in the section about 'expiring glue' :> creating loops in the DNS server, but doesn't mention a particular :> bug. :> :> However, there's another section where he mentions something about :> bind reducing the TTL by 5% for certain credibility

Re: Weird named problem - IN A for nameservers being lost!

2001-07-16 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: > Interesting. He describes in the section about 'expiring glue' > creating loops in the DNS server, but doesn't mention a particular > bug. > > However, there's another section where he mentions something about > bind reducing the TTL

Re: Weird named problem - IN A for nameservers being lost!

2001-07-16 Thread Matt Dillon
: : :On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: : :> I don't think that's it... if you look at the dumps, there were no timeouts :> in the 2-day range. The original glue NS records (from exodus) had already :> been completely replaced by the NS record from their zone. Everything in :>

Re: Weird named problem - IN A for nameservers being lost!

2001-07-16 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: > I don't think that's it... if you look at the dumps, there were no timeouts > in the 2-day range. The original glue NS records (from exodus) had already > been completely replaced by the NS record from their zone. Everything in > their

Re: Weird named problem - IN A for nameservers being lost!

2001-07-16 Thread Matt Dillon
: : :On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: : :> I've been trying to track down a weird problem with our mail system :> suddenly believing that a host does not exist, or timing out in DNS. :> :> I tracked it down to the DNS server, but I am not entirely sure what is :> going on.

Re: Weird named problem - IN A for nameservers being lost!

2001-07-16 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: > I've been trying to track down a weird problem with our mail system > suddenly believing that a host does not exist, or timing out in DNS. > > I tracked it down to the DNS server, but I am not entirely sure what is > going on. What appea

Weird named problem - IN A for nameservers being lost!

2001-07-16 Thread Matt Dillon
I've been trying to track down a weird problem with our mail system suddenly believing that a host does not exist, or timing out in DNS. I tracked it down to the DNS server, but I am not entirely sure what is going on. What appears to be happening is that the glue IN A record