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- From: mills@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gary Mills)
- Subject: Re: DNS & Resolver. Things Sun should do.
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.130038.27277@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
- Keywords: DNS
- Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
- References: <yvent.711983630@theseas> <1992Jul24.144817.23307@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> <hanson.711995288@pogo> <jpc.712190285@avdms8.msfc.nasa.gov>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 13:00:38 GMT
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- In <jpc.712190285@avdms8.msfc.nasa.gov> jpc@avdms8.msfc.nasa.gov (J. Porter Clark) writes:
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- >Does this mean that the bug wherein NIS remembers that a DNS lookup
- >failed will be fixed? I'm referring to a longstanding problem in which
- >an initial failure of the resolver (perhaps because the response from
- >the nameserver arrived too late) will cause the lookup to fail from
- >that point on.
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- I don't see this problem. After I add a new host to the DNS, I can start
- doing ypmatch on that host, and in five or ten minutes it will appear.
- I assumed this was due to caching by ypserv, which should be a good thing
- because it should reduce traffic between NIS and DNS.
- --
- -Gary Mills- -Networking Group- -U of M Computer Services-
-