Re: naive bind question

["Kelly Clowers" <kelly.clowers@gmail.com>]

On 20 Oct 2007 19:09:06 GMT, Tyler Smith <tyler.smith@mail.mcgill.ca> wrote:
>
> 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?

I'm not so good at dns, but that looks good. I think you do have a working
caching name server.

For dig try:
"dig @127.0.0.1 cbc.ca"

The @ sign means use the dns server at the following address.
The next argument is what record to look up.


Cheer,
Kelly