Re: DNS or WINs issue I do not know

Deji Akomolafe <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> for instance nslookup is one of these, it has its own cache and
>>>> bypasses the client DNS cache and the hosts file......
>
> Kevin, do you consider the behavior of bypassing client's host file a
> flaw? I'm wondering because it appears to be understandably "by
> design" if you consider the fact that nslookup is not asking the
> client for the info. It is asking a specific server to which it's
> focused. Looking at the client's host file will skew the reliability
> of nslookup's result. No?

Deji,
I wouldn't say it is a flaw if it bypasses the local DNS cache, it is a
designed in behavior. Just like it does when nslookup does the reverse
lookup on the server IP it is using.
Some people call it a flaw because you didn't ask nslookup to do a PTR
lookup, it just does it. Which then freaks out some users into thinking
their DNS server is broken, because it can't find the "server name" for the
address.

I do think that if you disable using parent suffixes of the primary DNS
suffix on the client, nslookup should follow that. As it is the only way you
can get nslookup to not search parent suffixes of the primary DNS suffix is
to configure a custom DNS suffix search list. Nslookup will follow that.



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Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]
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