[Novalug] Maybe a little OT - DNS between Windows and Linux

[Ken Kauffman]

That is weird.  The default TTL for Windows I thought was one day.

K

On Mon, February 26, 2007 16:37, Nick Danger wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 15:26 -0500, Ken Kauffman wrote:
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>> Windows machines will cache after the first lookup.  I normally have the
>> opposite problem with windows boxes.  Normally resolved by:
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>> ipconfig /flushdns
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>> Is this truly a DNS or WINS problem?  WINS can get a bit flaky is the
>> authoritative WINS resource disappears.
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> Its a DNS issue. The server NS1 (CentOS4, bind9) is a little overloaded
> at the moment, and sometimes runs out of memory (had hardware flake out,
> new server is on the way) What I've noticed is that when I have to
> restart bind on the linux box, the domain controller for the windows
> network just stops doing DNS. Right now its configured to pass requests
> off to the linux box for anything it doesn't know about, since the DC is
> behind the FW in private ip space, whereas the linux box is in the DMZ.
> Stop named on the linux box, and the DC resolves nothing. I would think
> it would hold info for its TTL and not have to as the linux box for
> every lookup. So maybe it IS a windows setting Im missing...Or something
> completely conceptual :-)
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> -Nick
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