fowarding vs named.ca
Joseph S D Yao
jsdy at center.osis.gov
Mon Jul 11 18:28:14 UTC 2005
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 08:14:00PM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
...
> The reason for using the forwarders is so that I don't have this one
> sole box querying the root servers all the time. Maybe I'm wrong, but I
> always thought it best to hit an upstream cache rather than going all
> the way to the top. It certainly would be much simpler for me to
> eliminate the local cache (what the forwarders hit).
...
As Barry and Brad noted, you seem to be misunderstanding how the name
server works. You should not be forwarding to a local cacheing server,
but using your own cache. You will hit a root server maybe once every
few months.
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Joe Yao
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