[Gllug] RE: [GLUG] BIND NS Order

[Pete Ryland]

On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 11:29:48AM +0000, Xander D Harkness wrote:
> Neil Fryer wrote:
> >Hi All(again)
> >
> >Ok, I have just one last question, before I set my DNS server up with the
> >ISP is there any way that I can test externally if it is working?
> >
> If you have a login to an external box you can do a query directly to 
> your box:
> 
> dig @mynameserver.org my.new.domain.org any
> 
> or you can check that BT et al. can resolve the domain:
> 
> dig bt.com ns
> 
> gives a few bt nameservers
> 
> dig @ns1.bt.com mynewdomain.org [any|ns|mx]

Won't ns1.bt.com cache the first time and not give accurate results thence?

Pete

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