Apparently, though unproven, at 18:44 on Wednesday 17 November 2010, walt did opine thusly:
> On 11/16/2010 04:01 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Apparently, though unproven, at 01:20 on Wednesday 17 November 2010, walt > > did > > > > opine thusly: > >> On 11/16/2010 11:47 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> > ... > >>> > >>> For an auth server, powerdns is very good... > >> > >> By 'auth' do you mean something like DNSSEC? If not, who's doing > >> the auth-ing? > > > > Do you understand the difference between an authoritative nameserver, a > > caching nameserver, and a local resolver? > > I understand the first two, but not 'local resolver'. (I did assume you > meant 'authentication', not 'authoritative'.) The local resolver is on your machine and uses /etc/resolv.conf. It usually goes by the name of glibc :-) I see Adam answered your other question, but you already knew the answer to that. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
