Hi - I'm actually trying to figure out why something IS working.

I have an Ubuntu Gutsy server that is running bind9 (it acts as my DNS server). I setup PPP on this server and when I connect to the internet I can resolve internet addresses but I can't see why it works.

I used pppconfig to setup ppp and I specified nsmeservers=none so that ppp will not modify resolv.conf. I checked and it indeed does not modify my resolv.conf. My resolv.conf only has my little domain name and the ip of my DNS server (which just points back to the local machine). OK that should eliminate resolv.conf and confirm that the machine is resolving addresses from bind9.

My bind9 is setup with no forwarding.

/etc/host.conf has the normal:
oder hosts,bind
multi on

So then how am I able to resolve internet addresses?

Thanks

Hi,

You are able to resolve internet domains, because bind by default acts as a caching dns server. Even though you don't use the "." hint zone, there are some root servers hard-coded into bind code, so it can forward queries to them.

Regards