Re: DNS Lookup

[Warren Michelsen <Warren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 5:21 PM -0700 10/11/01, Stephanie Wright wrote:
>>It is REALLY annoying to have WebTen repeatedly tell me (when trying to add a 
>>Virtual Host):
>>
>>\\Domain Name lookup failed. Add 'www2.thecassandraproject.org' to your DNS 
>>Server.
>>
>>Why does Wt come back with a failed DNS lookup so very quickly (less than a 
>>second) rather than wait for a recursive lookup to succeed?
>>
>>I can open another browser window, enter www2.thecassandraproject.org in and 
>>go to the server, so, if a web browser can find the host, why the heck can't 
>>WebTen? These should be no problem whatever since the DNS server that is 
>>configured for WebTen is also authoritative for thecassandraproject.org. I 
>>don't get it.
>>
>>Does WT have a problem with CNAMES?
>
>Welllll, cnames do require two lookups, one to get the hostname the alias is 
>pointing to, and then a second lookup to get the IP address of that host. It 
>shouldn't be a problem, but perhaps that second lookup isn't happening fast 
>enough.

But WT is taking less than a second to come back with the failed lookup!


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