On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 10:14:51AM -0400, Ted Unangst wrote: > Florian Obser wrote: > > Not everything listening on localhost port 53 is a recursive resolver. > > nsd(8) per defaults listens on 0.0.0.0 and will respond with REFUSED for > > almost every query. asr stops in that case and does not try the next > > resolver in the list. > > Ah! There's the catch. The good news is I think we can still bind to > localhost:53 if nsd is on *:53 (right?). This matters if rebound isn't > listening.
Perhaps I'm confused, but what happens when rebound is stopped by the user or it crashes? I think that would mean requests would fallback to nsd on *:53 which as Florian mentioned, would not try the next nameserver in resolv.conf. -Bryan.
