[AusNOG] Are domain name server pointers reliant on registrar name server?

[Bradley Silverman]

@Peter - "Can't you just point the resolvers on the box to another
recursor"
Well you can and as mentioned we are. But just like your PC, you can set
any recursor you want, it will still use it's own hosts file and DNS cache
before bothering going to a recursor.
If you're PC thinks it knows the answer, it won't bother going off to find
it.

cPanel will auto select if you need the remote or local, but if you change
things then it needs to be changed.

As it stands it is incredibly simple thing to do, and although you may
think it is a terrible control panel thing, it is far simpler for an
average user to utilize than setting up a VPS just to host their one small
site :)

At any rate, this wasn't what Matt was asking, I was just giving him a bit
of side information for a common mistake that is made!

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On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 4:06 PM Peter Fern <ausnog at 0xc0dedbad.com> wrote:

> On 29/10/18 3:54 pm, Bradley Silverman wrote:
> > @Peter - Hey mate, I never said our nameservers would server records,
> > I said the server itself would not go looking as it would assume that
> > as it hosts the website, and has DNS records, that it itself is
> > authoritative. This is basically how all Control Panel like systems
> > function (cPanel, Plesk etc).
> > Our nameservers are not responding incorrectly, or at all in this
> > circumstance, it's just the server not making a DNS query as it
> > assumes it has that information already haha!
>
>
> Can't you just point the resolvers on the box to another recursor,
> rather than at the cPanel DNS server, to fix this? Clearly I don't have
> much experience with these terrible control panel things, but this
> sounds like a pretty broken mode of operation, or perhaps there's a
> missing integration point that should be leveraged to avoid this being a
> customer problem.
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