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Re: QUICKER FIX Re: [fjk].gtld-servers.net bogus for .com


From: "Scott Gifford" <sgifford () tir com>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 19:51:57 -0500

Many thanks to my friend & cow-orker Tristan Horn for this
idea...in BIND 8 you can define servers as bogus (meaning
"don't ever trust these") as follows:

// [fjkl].root-servers.net
server 192.5.5.241 { bogus yes; };
server 198.41.0.10 { bogus yes; };
server 193.0.14.129 { bogus yes; };
server 198.32.64.12 { bogus yes; };

i recommend against that.



  Do you recommend against this particular way of telling BIND to
temporarily ignore name servers which are known to be a little, errr, funky?
Or do you recommend against ignoring broken name servers in general?..

  I guess what I really would like to know is how did you handle this
problem?  :)

  Just wondering,

--------Scott.



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