Chapter 6. Troubleshooting DNS

Being a distributed database, there are quite a few things that can affect how DNS operates. Perhaps the first place you should turn when you encounter a problem you can't solve yourself is the comp.protocols. tcp-ip.domains FAQ. Chris Peckham maintains it and posts it regularly on the newsgroup. It is also archived and is available by anonymous FTP from ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/internet/tcp-ip/domains-faq and in hyperlinked HTML format at http://www.intac.com/~cdp/cptd-faq/. Andràs Salamon maintains a DNS Tricks and Tips page at http://www.dns.net/dnsrd/trick.html. Of course, the whole DNSRD athttp://www.dns.net/dnsrd/ is a valuable source for information about DNS on the whole. Another valuable ...

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