[Pdns-users] pdns-recursor returning bad data intermittently

[Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)]

Sukh Khehra wrote:

> Yes, I definitely have different data on those 2 servers and that's what
> is being returned when I expect it to return the override value I have
> in /etc/hosts for smtp.
> 
> 172.17.23.231	smtp.mydomain.net. smtp
> 
> Is that not how it works?

When you run dig, you run a query against a DNS server and /etc/hosts is not checked for that query.

Nils.