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Topic: DNS question

Posted By: huwnet
Subject: DNS question
Date Posted: 22 August 2004 at 10:47am

Can someone please answer some DNS questions for me?

1. For example take the microsoft.com dns record:

Registrar of Record: TUCOWS, INC.
 Record last updated on 23-Jun-2004.
 Record expires on 03-May-2014.
 Record created on 02-May-1991.

 Domain servers in listed order:
    NS1.MSFT.NET   207.46.245.230
    NS5.MSFT.NET   207.46.138.20
    NS2.MSFT.NET   64.4.25.30
    NS3.MSFT.NET   213.199.144.151
    NS4.MSFT.NET   207.46.72.123


 Domain status: 
REGISTRAR-LOCK

If all the name servers except the last one are down will the ISP dns server look through
the first two and then time out?

2. Are there any web administration tools for bind that can be used for small hosts.

Replies:

Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 22 August 2004 at 11:21am

The isp server will look through as many as it can until it times out but some dns servers are configured to only look at two.

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Posted By: pmormr
Date Posted: 22 August 2004 at 11:57pm

microsoft is a very very big company making billions of dollars. they loose money by the second when they go offline... if 4 of their 5 name servers ever go down at one time, i'll switch to linux

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Posted By: pmormr
Date Posted: 22 August 2004 at 11:58pm

plus... when dns lookups are performed they are done twice. microsoft's nameservers are most likely on a "round robin", meaning that the servers are given to you in a different order each time

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Paul A Morgan

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Posted By: pmormr
Date Posted: 23 August 2004 at 12:01am

i don't use unix... so i wouldn't know much about bind

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Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 23 August 2004 at 11:22am

I know of people who use webmin, but you've got to have a good handle on how Bind works to use it. Best tool is O'reilley's book "DNS and Bind"

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