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Subject: Proposed change to comments in /etc/namedb/named.conf
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>Number:         15470
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       Proposed change to comments in /etc/namedb/named.conf
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Dec 13 12:30:02 PST 1999
>Closed-Date:    Wed Jun 6 14:04:27 PDT 2001
>Last-Modified:  Wed Jun 06 14:04:48 PDT 2001
>Originator:     Stefan Moeding
>Release:        FreeBSD 3.4-RC i386
>Organization:
Private FreeBSD site
>Environment:

	FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE and FreeBSD 3.4-RC

>Description:

In my opinion the description of the 'forwarders' keyword in
/etc/namedb/named.conf might convince some people to keep the address
127.0.0.1 configured.  This doesn't make any sense, since BIND will
use those hosts to resolve locally unknown names and localhost
obviously doesn't know the answer.

I propose the following change to the description.  It also replaces
127.0.0.1 with a value which should cause fewer `mysterious' problems.

Stefan

>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
	
--- named.conf.orig	Mon Dec 13 20:40:48 1999
+++ named.conf	Mon Dec 13 20:52:23 1999
@@ -15,12 +15,17 @@
 //
 //      forward only;
 
-// If you've got a DNS server around at your upstream provider, enter
-// its IP address here, and enable the line below.  This will make you
-// benefit from its cache, thus reduce overall DNS traffic in the Internet.
+// If you've got one or more DNS servers around at your upstream provider, 
+// enter their IP addresses here, and enable the lines below.  This will
+// make you benefit from their caches, thus reduce overall DNS traffic in
+// the Internet.
+//
+// NB: Do not use the IP addresses below, they are faked, and only
+// serve demonstration/documentation purposes!
 /*
 	forwarders {
-		127.0.0.1;
+		10.1.1.1;
+		10.2.2.2;
 	};
 */
 	/*

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: phk 
State-Changed-When: Wed Jun 6 14:04:27 PDT 2001 
State-Changed-Why:  
This should be addressed to the BIND maintainers if still a problem. 

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=15470 
>Unformatted:
