Danny a écrit : > >> Warning : this setup is wrong and may not work as you expect. All listed >> nameservers should be equivalent. Multiple nameservers are only for >> redundancy, not to provide multiple sources. >> >> If you query the first server for an information out of its scope, it >> may reply negatively (status: NXDOMAIN or NOERROR, ANSWER: 0) and the >> next server won't be queried. So in the end you won't get your answer. > > However, what would be the point of giving resolv.conf multiple nameserver > options then
I wrote it : redundancy. > if one cannot "force" (for lack of > a better word) it, or even arbitrarily change the order in which servers can > be > queried? You can force or change the order of the nameservers. /etc/resolv.conf even has an option "rotate" to do round-robin among the listed nameservers. What you cannot do is expect the current resolver library to : - ask a given nameserver for a given type of queries (e.g. "external names"), and another nameserver for another given type of queries (e.g. "internal names") ; - ask the next nameserver if the previous nameserver replied that the requested name does not exist or does not have a resource record for the requested type (aka negative answer). > The setup I had (Debian 3.0) worked. Unfortunately smart devices and more > wireless laptops demanded attention. So I upgraded (clean install) to Debian > 7.0. All I want to do is for all wireless devices to get DHCP from Debian (not > the router) and query Debian (not the router) for name resolution. Simple as > that. Why then are you messing with the router's nameserver ? If you need to resolve both internal and external names, I suggest that you query only the Debian nameserver and configure it to reply to recursive queries, either by itself or by forwarding them to the router's nameserver. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/530bbdaf.3090...@plouf.fr.eu.org
