MediaOne DNS

[Michael Bilow]

Just run your own machine as an authoritative name server for your zone.  
It need not be advertised (that is, listed with an NS record), but it
will prevent things going haywire when the real name servers collapse.

Even if you run a name server process on your own in slave mode, that is a
better option than trusting the name servers listed in /etc/resolv.conf.  
At least, if your own name server collapses, you can do something to get
it going again rather than twiddle your thumbs.

-- Mike


On 2000-12-30 at 19:17 -0500, David Kramer wrote:

> A few days ago I underwent another MediaOne blunder.  My domain name
> (kramer.ne.mediaone.net) fell off their (hence everyone else's) DNS
> tables.  My poor machine was SO confused, as were any mail senders who I
> did not switch over to  @thekramers.net yet.
> 
> In playing around with this, I found that two of the three DNS IP's listed
> in my /etc/resolv.conf are invalid.
> 
> Could someone with a MediaOne cablemodem forward a copy of their
> /etc/resolv.conf?   Thanks.

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