Re: naive bind question
On 2007-10-20, Kelly Clowers <kelly.clowers@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 20 Oct 2007 17:20:16 GMT, Tyler Smith <tyler.smith@mail.mcgill.ca> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm working through an old-ish book on web programming. It has several
>> pages of instructions on installing and running bind8 for use on a
>> standalone computer. I just used aptitude to install bind9, and
>> without any additional effort I think it's working. ps aux shows the
>> named daemon, and I can browse the web no problems. Is that all there
>> is to it? My browser seems to be a little snappier, without the usual
>> lookup times, but that could be wishful thinking.
>
> I don't think bind is set up to even do caching out of the box, but I
> could be wrong. You can use the command line utility dig to see what
> your name server is doing. See dig's manual page for more info.
>
I looked at dig and also nslookup. nslookup produces:
tyler:bind-> nslookup
> www.cbc.ca
Server: 127.0.0.1
Address: 127.0.0.1#53
Non-authoritative answer:
www.cbc.ca canonical name = www.cbc.ca.edgesuite.net.
www.cbc.ca.edgesuite.net canonical name = a1849.gc.akamai.net.
Name: a1849.gc.akamai.net
Address: 142.176.121.5
Name: a1849.gc.akamai.net
Address: 142.176.121.8
Does this mean that I'm using 127.0.0.1 as my name server? That's what I want
isn't it?
dig produces:
tyler:bind-> dig
; <<>> DiG 9.4.1-P1 <<>>
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 24999
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 13, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 13
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;. IN NS
;; ANSWER SECTION:
. 508217 IN NS g.root-servers.net.
. 508217 IN NS e.root-servers.net.
. 508217 IN NS a.root-servers.net.
. 508217 IN NS f.root-servers.net.
. 508217 IN NS l.root-servers.net.
. 508217 IN NS c.root-servers.net.
. 508217 IN NS m.root-servers.net.
. 508217 IN NS i.root-servers.net.
. 508217 IN NS d.root-servers.net.
. 508217 IN NS k.root-servers.net.
. 508217 IN NS h.root-servers.net.
. 508217 IN NS b.root-servers.net.
. 508217 IN NS j.root-servers.net.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
a.root-servers.net. 508217 IN A 198.41.0.4
b.root-servers.net. 508217 IN A 192.228.79.201
c.root-servers.net. 508217 IN A 192.33.4.12
d.root-servers.net. 508217 IN A 128.8.10.90
e.root-servers.net. 508217 IN A 192.203.230.10
f.root-servers.net. 508217 IN A 192.5.5.241
g.root-servers.net. 508217 IN A 192.112.36.4
h.root-servers.net. 508217 IN A 128.63.2.53
i.root-servers.net. 508217 IN A 192.36.148.17
j.root-servers.net. 508217 IN A 192.58.128.30
k.root-servers.net. 508217 IN A 193.0.14.129
l.root-servers.net. 508217 IN A 198.32.64.12
m.root-servers.net. 508217 IN A 202.12.27.33
;; Query time: 6 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Sat Oct 20 16:02:07 2007
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 436
tyler:bind->
Thanks for your help. I know these are very basic questions.
Cheers,
Tyler
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