Re: Cache problem.

At 11:30 AM +0200 2005-05-30, Thomas Kinghorn [MTNNS -Rosebank] wrote:

> I am using the local root server as the first option in "root.hint"

Local root server? As in an internal root, disconnected from the
external "real" root servers?

> We have had an international failure and as a result, none of our
> clients can get dns resolution.
>
> I thought this would have been eliminated by using the local root cache.
>
> In the root.hints, its server 'F'

I'm confused. Are you trying to list your own internal root
server as just *one* of the servers in the root hints file? If so,
then don't do that -- it's all or nothing. Either you list all the
external "real" root servers in that file, or you list only your
internal root servers, but you can't mix and match.

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