Re: No nxdomain answer

Sergey Shepelev <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.djbdns
Message-ID <[email protected]>
2009/9/4 Harm van Tilborg <[email protected]>:
> Hi Sergey,
>
> I assume you're probably thinking that tinydns does the same thing as BIND
> does: acting as both an authoritive nameserver _and_ a caching nameserver at
> the same time.
>
> That's not what it does. tinydns is only an authoritive nameserver. You will
> need djbdns' dnscache to setup a caching nameserver. See [1].
>

I'm not familiar with DNS terminology, but generally speaking, i would
expect a cache to return kind of "enoent" if domain is just not found
in cache.

Thanks for clarification.

> --
> Kind regards,
> Harm van Tilborg
>
> [1] http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/run-cache-x.html
>
> Sergey Shepelev wrote:
>>
>> Hello.
>>
>> I set up a tinydns instance:
>>
>> $ tinydns-conf temoto temoto /home/temoto/tinydns 127.0.0.1
>> $ cd ~/tinydns/root
>> $ ./add-host some.foo 1.2.3.4
>> $ make
>> $ cd ..
>> $ sudo ./run
>>
>> (it works! Great)
>>
>> $ dnsq a some.foo 127.0.0.1   really gives an answer, which is great.
>>
>> BUT.
>>
>> For dnsq a foo.bar 127.0.0.1 i don't get any answer. I would expect
>> nxdomain or some other error. Nothing. Timeout (after too much time,
>> BTW).
>>
>> What do i do wrong?
>
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