[f-nsp] ServerIronXL 16 or 24 port questions..

Niels Bakker niels=foundry-nsp at bakker.net
Mon Jun 28 08:01:04 EDT 2004


* bjorn at mork.no (Bjrn Mork) [Mon 28 Jun 2004, 13:44 CEST]:
> The problem is that you can't control which questions it gets.  Lots
> of clients will ask for AAAA records nowadays.  A regular DNS server
> will immediately return NXDOMAIN when no AAAA records are defined, but

Actually they'll reply NOERROR to indicate other data is available, just
not of the requested type


> the ServerIron didn't even when running as a standalone DNS server.  It
> just dropped the AAAA requests, causing long delays for these clients
> before they eventually timed out and fell back to asking for an A
> record. 

So the SI will only intercept A queries?


	-- Niels.

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