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  From: Richard Russell <richard@yellowgoanna.com>
  To  : James Collins <sysadmin@ltuae.com>
  Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 11:40:24 +0930

Re: Apache reverse proxy -- why does this even work?

James Collins writes: 

>     Locally running copies of named always take precedence... ie: It will
> look up that locally running named server.

it = the resolver, or it = apache? 

Why does it do this? It seems a rather obfuscated way of doing things... 

rr 

> 
>> Eventually, I did find it in a local copy of named. It's a master for
> .int,
>> and has a zone file, with the correct information for internal.int in it.
>> It's only listening on the internal (192.168) interface (not even
>> localhost). If I run `dig internal.int @192.168.x.y`, I get the correct
>> response. However, /etc/resolv.conf looks like this: 
>>
>> [root@fw /root]#  cat /etc/resolv.conf
>> search int
>> #nameserver 192.168.x.y       <-- internal address, commented out
>> nameserver <provider's DNS>
> 
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