fowarding vs named.ca

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 03:30:18AM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 14:28 -0400, Joseph S D Yao wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Well, I did 15 mins of tests last night....
> 
> ~$ tcpdump port domain | egrep -i "> [a-m].root-servers.net" | wc -l
>  18
> 
> no forwarders... seems like a few every minute. ;)
> 
> -Jim P.

Out of how many lines?  And, had you just started up?  ;-)

-- 
Joe Yao
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