You said:
>You turned off DNS in GUI and your sites still serve data?. How does that >work?Dunno but when I got the bind hack, first thing I noticed was DNS was down via the warning light and an email from the server... but it still served data and all functions work...When I got the restore, I tried it without it on and all was well so... who knows.. It is probably due to the system being a name based??Any "guru" type answers to this one out there?
If DNS for your sites is also being hosted elsewhere, name lookups will be using that DNS server to resolve the address of your server. This being the case, name based sites will work because the web server uses the site name specified in the URL to determine which site to present to the browser.
The other possible explanation is that the DNS results are being cached. As the Time-To-Live for your DNS records expires, the caches will attempt to reload the DNS data from your DNS server - which won't work, as it's not running. So you may find that although it works now, it will stop working at some point in the near future.
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