How-to: (if ISP dns server down) go direct to root
Barry Margolin
barmar at alum.mit.edu
Mon Dec 15 21:03:48 UTC 2003
In article <brl10h$bch$1 at sf1.isc.org>, Joaco <tonyb at sysdev.org> wrote:
> Question, I do have a "." zone and db.root defined, but no joy.
> How do I get bind to feed its cache from the internet root
> servers, when my ISP forwarders are down???
It should do that automatically, unless you've used "forwarders" to
force it to go to the ISP's nameservers instead.
Moral: don't use forwarders unless you have to.
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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Woburn, MA
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