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Apparently, though unproven, at 18:44 on Wednesday 17 November 2010, walt did |
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opine thusly: |
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> On 11/16/2010 04:01 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > Apparently, though unproven, at 01:20 on Wednesday 17 November 2010, walt |
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> > did |
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> > opine thusly: |
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> >> On 11/16/2010 11:47 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> >> > ... |
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> >>> For an auth server, powerdns is very good... |
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> >> By 'auth' do you mean something like DNSSEC? If not, who's doing |
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> >> the auth-ing? |
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> > Do you understand the difference between an authoritative nameserver, a |
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> > caching nameserver, and a local resolver? |
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> I understand the first two, but not 'local resolver'. (I did assume you |
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> meant 'authentication', not 'authoritative'.) |
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The local resolver is on your machine and uses /etc/resolv.conf. It usually |
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goes by the name of glibc :-) |
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I see Adam answered your other question, but you already knew the answer to |
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that. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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