path of slave server query for external addresses

[Barry Margolin]

In article <dsg1ta$176p$1 at sf1.isc.org>, rsesnaski at yahoo.com wrote:

> I think the answer is that the slave server issues it's own query to
> either the
> forwarder address or the root servers if it gets a query for a non
> local zone
> but I want to be sure. So the question is, does the slave query the
> master
> or the fowarder/root servers for an external address such as
> www.ibm.com
> assuming I'm not ibm.com of course.

There's no such thing as a master or slave server.  A server is a master 
for some zones, slave for other zones, and recurses for everything else.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
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