Pascal Hambourg wrote on 01/18/2018 02:41 PM: > > named is not a package name. The package name is and has always been > bind9. Note that there are other recursive DNS server packages such as > unbound.
Ah! It's been so long since I've built a system that didn't install bind automatically that I'd completely forgotten that. Thank you for reminding me. > > Note : ping is not a proper DNS tool becaus it calls the libc resolver > for name resolution, which may use other name sources than DNS. Use dig, > host or nslookup instead. I admit that I'm quite surprised that everything doesn't use the libc resolver (by which I assume you mean the operations performed by gethostbyname() or something equivalent). I should look at the code for dig or nslookup sometime to see how they resolve names. Anyway, thanks very much for the comment about bind. I installed it, and indeed it seems to be performing as expected. Doc -- Web: http://enginehousebooks.com/drevans
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