forwarders without a forwarders directive

[Barry Margolin]

In article <drlk1u$th3$1 at sf1.isc.org>, rsesnaski at yahoo.com wrote:

> I took over administration at a new company and for the life of me
> I can't see how their external addresses (www.google.com) resolv
> without a named.conf fowarders directive. Is there something I missing
> or some sort of fall back position to a default gateway?

The normal way to resolve external domains is by working down from the 
root servers.  If the configuration has root hints this is how it's 
doing it.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
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