A new DNS puzzle

[John Abreau]

Nathan Meyers <nmeyers at javalinux.net> writes:

> No large-scale networks here - just locally cached DNS records that go
> AWOL, but only when referring to Linux hosts. There's no easy fix for the
> suckitude of Windows, but maybe this particular problem is more tractable.
> 

I recall a few years ago someone discovered a bug in Access that would
subtly corrupt its data. MS-DNS could easily have a similar bug where its 
zone data occasionally gets flaky. Such a bug would be more likely to 
be triggered in a large-scale network, but it wouldn't necessarily 
*require*
a large-scale network to trigger the bug.


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